Tending What Is Near, the new post on The Listening Room HQ
, my men’s practice and The Polymath sister site, speaks of how in a restless world, strength often begins with simple acts of attention. A reflection on tending to the people and responsibilities closest to us, and the quiet discipline of noticing what is within reach and can be read here.
Returning to the Practice of Listening, the new post on The Listening Room HQ speaks of listening, of strength for men coming through disciplined listening, noticing what is said and unsaid, before acting or reacting can be reax on The Listening Room HQ site.
A recent interview with Josh Homme, of Queens of the Stone Age, on GQ Mexico lead me to write a post for The Listening Room HQ on leaving behind what no longer serves, staying present in the pause, and noticing when the old life ends and the next step arrives. It can be read here: here.
Full Moon in Leo – February 1, 2026 on The Polymath site speaks of presence, coherence, and embodied orientation. Maps & Readings as instruments of field awareness, luminous without performance. It can be read here.
Nothing Is Being Asked of You Right Now the new post at The Listening Room HQ concerns guidance for men in stillness. Practising coherence, restraint, and presence when no action or decision is required and can be read here.
When the Arrow Becomes a Body – The Art of Listening the new post at The Listening Room is about embodied listening in men’s and as presence: when the body holds truth, attention, and awareness, reorganising what matters without narrative or fix and can be read here.
The Listening Field: How Men Heal When They Are Truly Heard is the new post on The Listening Room HQ.
The Listening Field: How Men Heal When They Are Truly Heard is about deep listening, emotional clarity, and grounded presence, how men heal when they are truly heard. You can read The Listening Field: How Men Heal When They Are Truly Heard here.
The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy the new post at The Listening Room HQ pairs with The Sieve Year – Field Notes a reflection The Polymath on 2025 as a sieve year. However The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy is addressed as guidance for men in the sieve year, a season of filtering, listening, and quiet recalibration, while The Sieve Year – Field Notes is a broader reflection. You can read The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy here.
Sometimes a new voice rises from the quiet. Like Luminous Robin, here on its The Listening Room HQ version as a presence in men’s practice.
Luminous Robin pairs with its essence on Luminous Robin, The Moon and Mercury on The Polymath.
I close my four-part series on male midlife thresholds and midlife crisis with a practical, diagram-style guide
in The Listening Room HQ : Mapping Midlife: A Practical Diagram of the Male Midlife Crisis.
This final note gathers the series’ language and tools into an easy-to-scan map of stages and fork points — intended as a practical aid for noticing where you are, what choices appear, and how to move through midlife with clearer intention and integrity.
Earlier Mondo Bizarre Magazine notes in this series:
The full series as published on The Listening Room HQ:
For the complete set and ongoing notes from the practice, visit The Listening Room HQ.
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