http://butyes.net/?p=582 experiencing this, now... instinctuality • immediacy • the felt sense • deep listening • the awakened eye Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:56:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://butyes.net/?p=582&cpage=1#comment-152 Wed, 12 May 2010 18:25:43 +0000 http://butyes.net/?p=582#comment-152 Chris, I'm chuckling, reading this–what a different perspective! A long time ago I shared this poem with a male friend who reacted very negatively; maybe I'm beginning to understand why, a bit.

]]> http://butyes.net/?p=582&cpage=1#comment-150 Wed, 12 May 2010 16:43:18 +0000 http://butyes.net/?p=582#comment-150 Hi Kye — it's funny, I've always seen that poem as a challenge to men to really “stand up and be a man,” and treated reading it as a chance to get really intimate with the places where I don't feel like I'm measuring up in that area. Hearing a woman interpret it reminds me of how it's not really a gender-specific message or an indictment of my “failures” and I can relax as I look at it again.

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