I think it is fair to say that the female/male (feminine/masculine) dance has been something of a marathon. Occasionally it really flows, as any good dance/dancers might hope for. For myself, I remember those occasions as extraordinary moments. But then I love to dance. At other times there are a lot of feet that get stepped. And sometimes, one partner or the other simply gets swept off the floor and/or chooses to retire -- which makes the dance something of an oddity, not to say virtually impossible.
So if Open Space is a dance, where does that take us? Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Pat Black Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:05 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: The Da Vinci Connection -- Open Space and the Feminine As some of my favorite books are being offered for reading I would like to add another. Layne Remonds's When The Woman Were Drummers has some interesting insights about the change in balance. According to Redmond there was also a corresponding change in the relationship to the drum's purpose and who played it. There are many vase pictures of woman holding round disk objects. Before woman had access to the acadamy most male archeologists discribed those disks as cakes. Gimbutus says they are drums. Redmond is a frame drummer herself and I think, quite a scholar on the history of the frame drum. I seem to remember some issues between Moses and his sister Miriam before leaving Eygpt. I am no Old Testament scholar but seem to remember that Miriam was a drummer and there were some power struggles between her and Moses. I think it was the people that insisted Miriam be included. That would at least date this struggle in the balance between the masculine and feminine to that time. Pat Black * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
