[MD] sideways drifting

[Heather Perella]

Hello Margaret,

     Margaret said:  "I try to buy as much of my own
free time as possible so that I can create more art
and spend as much time
as possible with friends and working on special
projects (that may or may not be profitable) that I
find important."

     Yes, quality time must be bought in this culture.
 Yet, this 'buying' of quality time could be argued
probably as 'means of survival' that has happened
always and forever by humankind on this earth.  I have
had negative thoughts about $ at times, everybody on
the MOQ.org has surely noticed this about me.  I have
tried to move past this negativity and understand $ to
be static quality, and if anything better comes along,
then that DQ would hopefully become the new SQ of the
culture.  Until then, contentment with what is now,
with an open-mind to any possible changes is a
statement that fits into many aspects of our life.
     Your positive, creative, and very heartfelt way
of valuing friends and art, in which you find
important, there is nothing else I could find to
better.  By this personally include being with family
and trees.  Being with the trees, to me, is the only
way to live.  I don't understand life without the
normalizing that the woods give.  I wouldn't notice
this giving of normalizing that the woods provide, but
I have been in a city, around chaotic, confused,
troubled people, television, etc...; and so I have
been in situations where I have wondered 'why do I
feel so different' when I compare being in the woods
with being in these other city type of situations. 
I've grown in my connection to the woods where I see
the woods in the city now, but at times I still feel a
separation and a need to go deeper into the woods for
some reason - and when I do go deeper I feel my life
become what I call normal for me.  And then I'm good
for another 3,000 miles, so to speak.
     Why do I feel this way?  I don't know.  Much is a
mystery to me and I just go with it, with a little
thought on the side platter.  Why do I trust the woods
experience to be my experience so much?  The woods are
real to me.  I see birds, feel the wind, sit down by a
fire, and everything just becomes so clear to me.  The
woods are the here that is here.

     Thanks for the inspiration to write this.

SA  

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