Everyday I ask the loving voice of wisdom, which dwells in our hearts and in this world: “What would you have me know today?” And then I listen. This is what I heard one day, not long ago…

From elsewhere:

“There is a creative, life-sustaining, life-enhancing place for the masculine in a nondominator culture. And those of us committed to ending patriarchy can touch the hearts of real men where they live, not by demanding that they give up manhood or maleness, but by asking that they allow its meaning to be transformed, that they become disloyal to patriarchal masculinity in order to find a place for the masculine that does not make it synonymous with domination..” (bell hooks, The Will to Change)

From my heart:

Be disloyal to patriarchy, dear heart.
Don’t go in for models of manhood that appeal to subjection.
With your strength serve, listen and love.

Be emotional when you need to.
Cry those tears, my child, that you’ve been holding on to for dear life.

I don’t mean only be disloyal to patriarchy in a grand and glorious save-the-world-systemic sort of way.

I mean be free right now, yourself, this moment from all that binds you.
Refuse the bondage that masquerades as power.

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