What does it mean to be an Open Man?

A wonderful friend, Antonia, suggested the title of a book for me to write: An Open Man:  Reflections of a Spiritual Journeyman.  I've collected quite a few essays.  I've sent them to a select group of friends.  I'm now "openly" considering just writing them into a blog.  Much of my own journey as a man, human being, and inquiring soul, has been toward one of more openness, less certainty, more wonder, less presumption.  

I like to challenge myself not to a duel but to a deepening.   I've simply found that this deepening doesn't happen without openness and this openness doesn't happen without a kind of passionate vulnerability and faithful conviction that I might be more than my images of me.  So consider this an opening in itself.  

I hope to return many times to share my reflections.  In this journey I hope you will comment and most importantly pose questions, clarifying, spiritual, and philosophical questions.  Sometimes I write in a very non-linear manner, sometimes very simply, but each way emerges out of a need to contribute a new way of thinking about how I, and we, might conceive and act more effectively in the world from a soulful center.