Gladly Marsha. Although it's only a temporal slice, I'm always eager to share what I know.
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:39 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi John, > > Please me all you know of motherhood? I know it's an attitude. I know that it tries to cling to and encapsulate what needs to be free and exploring - thus is in constant dynamic tension. fierce in defense, gentle in repose. Doesn't like being questioned. Turns in a moment from loving to hateful. Is proud and yet touched with an ineffable sadness. The hand that rocks the cradle, rocks the whole world. > And, by the way, how do you > know it? Last night a cat had kittens in my underwear drawer. > It always makes me laugh when men want to talk about > motherhood... Mothers make men. Men make mothers laugh. > Man can provide for a woman's life, but he can never > enter that life. > > Nobody can enter anybody's life, but we try in various ways. The closest I ever came was the birth of our first child. Lu and I in bed, focused on each other's breathing. There came a place, a process, I have no idea how long it went on. It seemed to both of us then and after, that we were breathing and feeling as a team. That I'd start her on her next contraction when I could tell she was ready. That I'd give her a rest when she'd had enough. That somehow, for this time there was nothing separating us at all. We carried that moment through a lot of life together. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
