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.

When I feel her there seems nothing I cannot do.

I am beginning to understand something very basic...

Her tenderness teaches me, when I am paying attention, about the softness and subtlety of life around me.

What happens, in my life, if I choose to open...?