28th Annual Redwood Men’s Center Men’s Conference May 25-28

[Larry Robinson]

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>> To our brothers,
>> 28th Annual Redwood Men’s Center
>> Men’s Conference
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>> “Something there is that doesn't love a wall.”
>>  - Robert Frost
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>>  Memorial Day Weekend
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>> May 25-28, 2018
>> Mendocino Woodlands Camp Two
>> Mendocino, California
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>> Walls everywhere. In 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, there were fifteen border walls in the world. Now seventy walls divide rich countries from poor ones, major polluters from the victims of deep ecological crises. At America’s southern border. Palestine. Korea. Northern Ireland. Gated communities with security patrols. San Quentin. Auschwitz. Wall Street.
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>> Often, we believe we know who we are because we know who we are not – the marginalized “others” of the world. We maintain these divisions with walls – between countries, against one another, and around our hearts. Some we can see; many are invisible.
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>> Forgetting that we are all One, we have believed in the dream of separation: from each other, and ultimately from our own essence. Men particularly are subject to black / white thinking that offers a poverty of options to life’s big questions. So when others appear menacing and engulfing we build even larger walls to protect our shame, our terror of being undefined, our fear of being unformed.
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>> This is a very old legacy. Robin Morgan writes:
>> “If I had to name one quality as the genius of patriarchy, it would be compartmentalization, the capacity for institutionalizing disconnection. For millennia the dominator models of society have broken our humanity into steadily smaller pieces. Sewing them back together is the essential, hard work of democracy-building.”
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>> Not all walls are negative. Some, like Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall or Washington’s Viet Nam Veteran’s wall, offer sites for communal grieving and healing  . . . [continued in the Conference Brochure. Click here to download <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?RedwoodMensCenter/8408880986/TEST/9cc6ad458d/utm_content={URIENCODE[FIRST_NAME]}&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Click%20here%20to%20download&utm_campaign=2018%20Conference%20Registration%20begins%20online>.]
>> Please join us amidst old growth redwoods for our annual Memorial Day Weekend men’s gathering. Over the past 27 years we have learned how to create and maintain a community, a sacred space that honors our rich diversity, both in depth explorations and exuberant celebrations. We will sing, hear stories and poetry, engage in vibrant ritual, display our talents and beauty and eat wonderful food. We will support and inspire each other. Come! Bring yourself, your gifts, your passions, your struggles – and invite your fathers, brothers, sons and friends who you know would benefit from this conference.
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