[MD] is-ness

[Heather Perella]

Marsha:
> I charm the pants of young and old, and love them all. 
> That's not what I mean.
> I do the best that I can.

SA:  I know you do the best you can.  I can tell by your posts.  Not only your gumption, but your ability to sustain the clarity in your gumption.

Marsha:
> I miss full-moon nights around the fire.  Drums beating,
> sparks raising, chanting...   Orion lying low in the sky.
> You, my friend, are a treasure.

SA:  "Orion lying low in the sky", that's a great memory.  I remember nights where I saw that.  Isn't that later at night?  It's been awhile and where I live now, the only part of the sky I see is straight up with the hills and trees in the way.  I used to live where fields mixed with woods and the horizon was far and wide.  I would see the sun clearly come up and go down.  Now when I see the sun the day is into the middle of morning or late afternoon still.  I feel a kinship with you and I don't like making promises, especially with visitations, but my wife and I want to somebody visit Maine and you location would be along the way.  It would be some years from now before we do probably, but it is a thought that is crossing my mind.  Of course our son would be with us.  He'll be two in September.  I don't want to impede or say something out of place by bringing this up.  The thought of it though does suggest to me that you too would be good company to
 visit as a good friend.
      Ron, your closer, and I sometimes think about a visit with you somewhere too.  
      I've fallen into a very fortunate situation where the cost of day care was taking over 95% of my paycheck and my wife recently got the job of her childhood dreams, so, I'm a stay at home father.  Today was my last day at work.  My first course of intention is to visit the family relations that I usually only see once or twice a year during the holidays for an afternoon.  I want to help strength the bonds of the family.  We all live pretty far from each other.  Not too far, but far enough that visiting frequently turns into a big effort.  I'm a big family person, and I've checked into the family heritage and where people have come from the clothes they used to wear and such, and now I want to give back, contribute somehow as to give gratitude to my family for the love I feel for them.  Now is my chance.



Marsha:
> Bo and Ham are great.  I've learned from both of them. 
> They both 
> care.  They have a different MOQ point-of-view from mine. 
> That's 
> fine.  I like diversity.  They both make me think.  And I
> do like to think.
> But that biology-thing is pretty cool too.


SA:  I've been pushed aside by them too much, and they don't try to mend events.  Even though I have for years with them.  I don't know.  You've softened my heart Marsha, thanks.  I needed that.  As to the biology-thing?  The woods provide a way for me to think.  The quiet woods are the diamond [aka diamond (quiet) sutra (woods)].  Maybe that clears this up a bit.  It's all about thinking for ourselves, being creative, and as we have more and more time in this creative spirit of the summer woods, as I pointed out to my wife who while on a walk, we stopped by a flowing stream to give our son a moment to play in the small trickling of water, my wife started to weave cattail leaves for the fun of it - spontaneously - it is wonderful indeed what we can do to keep with the beautification of this world if given a little bit of time.


SA