I had the privilege of assisting Jonathan Montaldo in his workshop, "Thomas Merton & Mary Oliver: Contemplative Poets on Choosing to Love the World," at the Kripalu Center, Dec. 5-7, 2014. Central to Jonathan's message was Merton's notion of the "speech a day makes." It was through listening to the primal - and ordinary - language of nature, that we were able to nestle into the wintry frost-bitten hills of the surrounding landscape, and from there, make an embodied pilgrimm

Our current culture has more opportunities for increased consciousness, personal growth, and collective healing than ever before imaginable. This makes the 21st century a potent time for actualizing a shared vision of healing for both men and women so that violence and traumas from the past need not be repeated but repaired on both local and global levels. In order for men to rise and meet their female counterparts as equals, however, I believe that many men must first make