[MD] Reevers of Knowing

[Louise Pryor]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:47 AM, gav wrote:

... sweet little show. it was then that the water welled up in my
> eyes....not a great deal, just a little...i am a man after all! (read
> emotional retard), but that episode was a simple and beautiful and poetic
> yes! the spider seemed to love me, and me him/her. something bigger than me
> was coming through something smaller than me and saying 'look!, the book is
> right, your feelings are right, trust them. and i was grateful.
>
> postscript.
> after doing some research i discovered that spider medicine - the totemic
> wisdom of the spider - is associated with the feminine and rebirth and the
> infinite (8 legs- 8 is the symbol for infinity - der gav!)...the master
> weaver (ariadne) - a metaphor for how we weave the strands of our life
> together. if we do it well we create something more than the sum of the
>  individual strands - a synergistic alchemy occurs....and 'hey picasso', our
> lives become works of art.
>


I really appreciated your story here, Gav, it is one of those little
incidents that happen in our lives that are magical. Sometimes we can "hear"
another person when our stories have similar themes.

When you said:

> not a great deal, just a little...i am a man after all! (read emotional
retard)

I wonder at that. We live in a society that so denigrates the masculine, and
I think that's sad. Women say, "you should feel more, you should cry more,
you should communicate more..." But when you do, we despise you for your
weakness.

As a woman, I'd like to apologize for that.

Lu