Rob,
You are right on target as far as I am concerned. Thanks!
My wife and I take our cats outside every morning and evening for
a walk outdoors. They roll in the dirt, and occasionally I drop to
my knees and join them in holy ritual. Then they go off to their
birds, and we go off to our chairs to enjoy their freedom...
We host what we call a Storyfire once a month. We're out in the
desert, so the fire department allows us to light a small
campfire, as long as we call and ask if there are no
restrictions--such as the wind blowing a billion miles an hour!
:))
Simply amazing what people will share when the sun goes down and
the moon and stars come up--poems and stories, wise sayings they
have collected, joy, sorrow. Laughing and lying ( a little bit) in
the dark!
Sunday afternoons we gather in an art gallery to share what we
have created with our hands, hearts and heads. Painters with an
eye for shape and color. Sculptors who know the difference between
simply shaping clay and cutting into stone to uncover what they
see below the surface. Men who do not think poetry is simply
silly, stupid, sissy stuff. Women who see sunrises and sunsets in
every day and everything. A blacksmith who sees things in iron and
steel and sweat...
Getting through to someone else, and having them get through to
you in ways that both surpirse and please the head and the heart.
The list grows and grows if we can keep a beginner's mind and find
ways to keep pushing our horizons back when we think we've seen or
heard or know it all...
Thanks for your words--they cut right inside with a surgeon's
gentle skill. Wish we could join you in the dark to see some of
your light. But alas, we are miles apart. So words (the only
palette I have ever known (except for a 1980 Yamaha YZ, which I
learned to "ride" as if it and I were one) must do for now...
Billy Dean
Info@billydee.com
http://www.billydee.com
"It is the journey that enlightens--not the destination..."
Kwai Chang Caine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob D" <8rjd1@qlink.queensu.ca>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 6:06 AM
Subject: RE: Re: MD Self, Free/Determinism : a short essay
(again... ;)
> >From your previous post:
>
> One of our goals, for example, is to participate in this
> Metaphysics of Quality. Fair enough. But I'm not ready to
embrace
> the idea that our Goal is to construct better and better
> definitions. From where I am now standing, the quality of my
life
> seems much more a matter of experiencing it than a matter of
> explaining it.
>
> Which leads to what I really think would be a good thing to talk
about: What
> are the really good experiences? We all agree on Quality here.
We all agree
> that it's good. But how do we get it? Are there any high quality
experiences
> out there that some of us may have never tried?
> I'll tell you one that as an adult I never have any more but
think was very
> high quality when I was young. Talking in the Dark during a
sleep over. For
> some reason, no conversation topic is off limits in the dark.
Your really
> get to know people that way.
> I'd have to say that getting to know people, and really knowing
them,
> hearing their ideas and figuring out what makes them tick is
probably one of
> the highest quality experiences for me.
> How about you? What do you think is the best experience out
there?
>
> Rob
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