What is this life and this love I feel except the fire of testing? It is burning away all that is protecting me from being the man I am.

With my breath, my posture, and with dedicated and daily meditations I practice to be worthy of this work.

Who do you trust so much that you allow them to break you open, so that you can feel afraid, but also feel beauty, and love?

Deep bow to the healthy masculine.... (Katrine K.)

The only certainty in this life of stepping into the unknown is that I will experience vulnerability. Acute tenderness.

For her to open her heart, her body, her being into the beautiful moment of blossoming that I desire, I need to become still.

I am a man who is learning to swim Her ocean with grace and confidence, and with profound gentleness.

If you're a man, you might wonder at how much the women in your life give of themselves so that men like you and I might feel even a little of how rich this moment, this life, is.

So, today, grateful to my practice and my still-growing awareness of who I am and how I may thrive as a man, I listen with ears unused to listening. I surrender, unused to surrendering to the silence. I struggle to hear.

I believe that somehow the things I say or do may help them re-enchant and fix, if not their marriage, then at least some magic of love that’s been broken.