Xantippe - overall list dynamic male/female dynamic

[Guest guest]

Dear Alice,

This poem seems to reflect the general male/female energies on the list. I wonder sometimes since you are bringing up the male/female dynamics and were going to speak of the male side (as opposed to female arch amazon/mother/heteira/medial) - about the recent dynamic of the list. If I step waaaaaay back and look at the general (all female/all male) energies it can look like one big male/female relationship dynamic and perhaps there is something to be learned/practiced in this if we all can take a giant step back and look at it that way, instead of crawling up closer and closer into the details and hashing it out?????? Does this make any sense???? If not, I'll be quiet...

Love,

Miriam

Xantippe

Xantippe had cramps –

she had dropped her favorite pot

the one with seven centaurs

chasing a single nymph!

she was in a snit

because she was in a snit!

such things always led to storms

and tongue-lashings

so Socrates

adroitly went out the back

as she was at the front door

rejecting a sponge salesman

who had somehow survived

with a club foot.

a.o.howell