Flesh and bones

 

Kind of hard to wrap your head around flesh and bones, because your

head is flesh and bones.  But beyond that, the phrase is interesting,

I think because it contains a bit of mystery.  The main mystery is

that we are made of flesh and bones, mostly, and although

we generally can not see the bones, we all know they are there.


And we know or we generally learn, that both the flesh and

and bones have to to mostly complete or we don't function

properly.  


You might think of this knowledge or information as " intuitive ".

We know it, somehow, and most everyone knows it.


The other thing is of course that flesh and bone are significantly

different and it is also quite difficult to really understand that,

but somehow when they are combined in their proper way,

we work , as human beings, and we generally work pretty

well.


There are other things that are distinctly different and yet

go to make a complete whole of a thing, for example,

the tree and it's leaves.  The tree does seem a bit different

than it's leaves, but yet we know the tree will not do

well without them.  You can at times distinguish the leaves

from the tree, but then there are times when you really

can't, sometimes because maybe you are too busy worrying 

about the forest.   


So what is curious is we have circles of apparently distinct

elements that go into making something that  is continuous

like for example the human body.  And what happens, is

that these seemly disparate and distinct elements, radiating

out in all the ways we can perceive, seem to come

once again and finally as some complete whole.


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