Leaping slowly

In Thor's day's mailbox . . . It's Leap Year Day . . .

The voice that you “find” has always been with you.

Girls are still in a bad bargain with patriarchy: the price of relationship is keeping their true thoughts to themselves. Growing up under the influence of the dominating patriarchy, including the school experience is one of loosing touch with a deeper sense of knowing. Boys have the same experience, though their lack of awareness is more profound.

Remembering Nex Benedict

“Here’s all you have to know about men and women: Women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.” – attributed to George Carlin.

Sadly, this comment is more true than it is humorous. It points to the contemporary paradigm shift as the “patriarchy” – so it is called – gives way to an as yet defined new “weltanschauung.” I suspect many who read this blog and others you may know are aware of and embracing this transition, if not sensing it nonverbally. A fact underlying this evolving shift in our world view is difficult to face: The problem is men. More particularly “masculinity” as cultures and societies have defined and reinforced it. Under way is a necessary “reframe” of what it means to be a man. Many comments on this topic to date have arrived in the Watercourse Way mailbox via Sophie Strand's fabulous work – The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Spiritual Masculine – a most worthy, if challenging, read IMO. And in a recent mailbox came an excellent TED presentation on this topic by Gary Barker, who argues “... men are dying of manhood.” And, I would argue, our sisters have known this for a long time.

We're in this together . . . a daily reminder from Joyce Vance at her daily blog Civil Discourse