[MD] strong legs

[Heather Perella]

Hey,

     "mm (Mary Margaret)"

     Thanks for answering the smallest of questions.
:-)


     mm said:  "...maybe you should leave for the
squirrel a small portion of your stash.  See what the
squirrel does with a social level." 

     I like your use of levels in your comments.  I
believe that's what we did when we let the squirrels
have their feed when we let it go, and went back to
camp.  We didn't want to bring the food into camp.  A
bear was in camp the day before snacking, better
squirrels than bear in the sleeping bag.  I don't know
what other intellectual choice we had, unless we
sacrificed sleeping to guard our food.  So I don't
even know if 'the critic' in our head comes into the
picture.  No matter what we may have been able to do
that hungry night, we would have had to give up
something, because others were coming for the taking. 
We once buried our food when we couldn't find a tree
to hang the bag earlier in the same backpacking trip. 
Now here's one of those possibilities coming into the
picture.  Would that have worked with that hungry
black bear lurking?  I don't know.  Was it the critic
holding us back from thinking further about what to
do?  Maybe... or as you said, maybe we settled on the
social, for which we did, in order to ease the night
into a 'not to have to continue to stay awake to guard
our food'.  Sleep was being the critic.  Dig a hole...
more time awake.  
     Sometimes we don't get everything we want.  So we
share.  These animals (black bear, pine squirrels,
northern flying squirrels) could have been gifts. 
Food, blankets, pouches, etc... but I didn't have
anything to kill them with (bow and arrows).  I could
have made something, but that was too late.  So this
could even be thought of as the earth providing
something to share with me, but I couldn't accept such
an offer so in return to not show gratitude I gave
something back, a gift of my own.  Then the peanuts
became something that I not longer wanted, but
actually I involved myself in the situation, went with
the flow, and gave something in a way I thought the
situation was going and wanted to be resolved itself. 
The situation wanting to resolve itself?  Going with
the flow, with intention and balance of needs and
possibilities?  What is this point of togetherness
where everything met and we all (trees, dirt, the way
the rope was tied, me, squirrels, etc...)?  Now this
seems to jump off the electronic page where I can't
find any words that talk of 'it', yet, I can describe
what happened with this 'it' where everything took
place that night.  It had quality.  Is it quality? or
am I going too far off track?  I would like some input
on this from somebody, maybe you Margaret.  
     I could call it an event, but events are
happening everywhere.  Maybe what happens is we get
into this kind of discussion and the only way to
pin-point something out is to make generalizations
about 'it'.  It could be reality and maybe that's
where the discussion angled and no longer was I
talking about what happened that night.  Yet, reality
is tied to all nights and days.  Is it quality?  Or is
quality just a word used to describe?  With all of
these questions about quality strong legs are present,
but if this turns into an opposition of quality, then
the strong wind is blowing here against what began as
strong legs trying to walk.  Or is it the questions I
am asking?  Sometimes questions themselves steer the
discussion.  Focus and clarity where are you?

Anybody want to help this out?

     mm said:  "...so here's a question: can't the
strong wind be a DQ event or did someone say that
already?"
 
     Strong wind could be a DQ event.  Nobody
mentioned that.  Yet, with what I typed above I guess
the answer to a metaphysics is defining a reality. 
Therefore a really strong wind could blow quality off
the map into oblivion to be never seen again as a
metaphysics.  So as I stated above and found myself
angled into something I did not know how to answer
when it came to quality I soon realized I was question
quality itself as reality.  Is quality a description
of reality?  Or is reality undefined, defined as DQ
and the description defined as SQ?  This could be
strong legs moving back into the picture against the
strong wind that rids quality forever as a
metaphysics.  That's how I picture a strong wind. 
Yet, what seems to be a strong wind ridding quality
piece by piece, and the strong legs seemingly
weakening; we may realize the strong wind was not as
strong as it could get if quality is even to exist as
a metaphysics.  This strong wind was thus DQ all along
just blowing some of that stuff off our backs
lightening the load so our strong legs become helped
by that once thought strong wind that turned out to be
DQ (as you said above).

Thanks,
SA  

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