[MD] Mommy tendencies

[MarshaV]

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On Mar 8, 2010, at 11:51 AM, John Carl wrote:

> Marsha,
> 
> I thought I'd do some thread clarification, but your question of how I
> define mommy tendencies is deserving, to my mind, of its own topic, since
> the Q'm" places mammalian motherhood as the center of known being.
> 
> So, first clue in to what makes up mommy tendencies, the actual behaviors of
> mammal mothers.
> 
> When I was in the sixth grade, I went to a neighbor's house to see the new
> kittens.  I took my dog.  Usually cats run from dogs, but the tendency of a
> mommy nursing who sees an enemy up close is to attack.  I don't speak cat
> language per se, but I'm quite sure if I could translate what that mommy had
> to say, it'd make an xacto blush.  In a flash, my dog was gone, running and
> yelping and crying down the street for home as fast as she could go with a
> furious mother on her back.
> 
> It was all gentleness, nurturing and purring one second, hissing, clawing
> and scratching the eyes the next.
> 
> Which is the true mommy tendency?  The nursing or  the cursing?
> 
> Both of course, each in its appropriate time.
> 
> Perhaps we have subconscious memories of being in the womb.  I don't know.
> All I know is that becoming aware of objects is a process that needs
> dynamic guidance and careful attention and whenever I see that dynamic
> guidance and careful attention, I think of it as mommy tendency, which even
> us males can sometimes exhibit, but usually not as instinctively.    I do
> think there is some female in every male, and some male in every female,
> that we are carriers of patterns and not prisoners of them.  But the
> patterns I observe are as empirical as daylight.
> 
> 
> John the respectful dog
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