On the bus...

I am too tired right now to write everything I wrote earlier.. I didn't get off work until midnight and it was a crazy night.. but I will say this. .

If everything is the result of action and reactions then in terms of dwelling, the act of building is a reaction.. but that does not mean that the fourfold is the action. Maybe it is, but not necessarily..

OK. If 'things' are simply the result of a number of forces (actions) and reactions so is the act of Dwelling. 

Consider the shape of the land in the southwest, the natural arches/bridges and canyons that have been formed through thousands of years of forces acting upon them. They have been shaped by natural and unnatural forces alike. . . of the wind, rain, drought, vegetation, lack of vegetation, animals, travelers, settlers, roads, the quality of air, the contents of the rain. . . the shape of that location of land at any given time is a result of countless factors, and as those forces change the shape of the land changes with it. 

So, then, what is the force of dwelling? Dwelling is the manner of which we exist on earth, Dwelling is the equilibrium. . . Dwelling is the act of bringing together the fourfold, therefore the oneness of the four is the reaction? Our nature, as mortals, create the forces [in addition to culture/environment/ect] and our reaction is building in order to create the oneness of the four [which is dwelling, is the equilibrium, is the lands shape at any point in time].  

I think there is much to part II I am still not following. I understand that we bring the fourfold together by building. Those 'things' create a space for the fourfold to exist. But, certainly, not any built thing can be considered a "dwelling". But if a dwelling is anything that creates this oneness then can't anything we build be a dwelling? Heidegger says:

Building takes over from the fourfold the standard for all the traversing and measuring of the spaces that in each case are provided for by the locations that have been founded. The edifices guard the fourfold. They are things that in their own way preserve the fourfold. To preserve the fourfold, to save the earth, to receive the sky, to await the divinities, to escort mortals-this fourfold preserving is the simple nature, the presencing, of dwelling. In this way, then, do genuine buildings give form to dwelling in its presencing and house this presence.

But he also states that:

Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build. 

This is when things seem a LITTLE more clear to me. 

building belongs to dwelling and how it receives its nature from dwelling

And Finally...

what is the state of dwelling in our precarious age?

The real plight of dwelling is indeed older than the world wars with their destruction, older also than the increase of the earth's population and the condition of the industrial workers. The real dwelling plight lies in this, that mortals ever search anew for the nature of dwelling, that they must ever learn to dwell. 

But how else can mortals answer this summons than by trying on their part, on their own, to bring dwelling to the fullness of its nature? This they accomplish when they build out of dwelling, and think for the sake of dwelling.

I need to sleep before I keep trying to respond to this. I feel like I have gone in one large circle.  .

More tomorrow