[MD] an eagle

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:46:06 -0400
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> From: marshalz at charter.net
> Subject: Re: [MD] an eagle
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> Greetings,
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> No, the eagle hasn't returned. The first sighting was February 24th,
> and the second was six days later on March 1st. I've lived in this
> place since August 2001, and those were the only two times I saw an
> eagle. But since March 1st, every time I walk into my bedroom I look
> out the window at the branch to see if the eagle is there. How
> little it takes to setup a pattern. It's an innocuous little
> pattern, but it has taught me a valuable lesson.

Hi Marsha

Each time I travel into the mountains I have to stop and stare at the scenery. I feel like such a tourist. I am compelled to pull off the road while traffic continues scowling by. The locals, on their way to their jobs or whatever other hurry is driving them, are seemingly oblivious to the Dynamic beauty that I'm drinking in. I see it in their impatient mannerisms and the unhappy looks marring their faces.

I guess the splendor of the mountains has become -- to the locals -- a static everyday affair, just another social pattern of value ... something they pass on the way to work, unworthy of even a second glance. Maybe that's why I know I'll never live there. My senses would doubtlessly dull over time until I no longer saw the beauty either. 

I think it's good to see the wonder of the world with fresh eyes, a full heart, and an empty mind. Static quality would appear to be the enemy of all three. When we cease to be surprised then Dynamic Quality has been shuttled to the back of the train instead of the front, so to speak. Expectations arise, which are nothing more than static filters clouding the wonder of reality. 

Perhaps that's the lesson of the eagle... ? ...

Dan











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