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Footprints in the Windsm # 934

Footprints in the Windsm # 934

You have a message
a word a glance a work—
to lift us all
shout look walk
breathe our species’ transforming
birth our pregnant heart-break
open for us the meanings
of our still strange encounter


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

Who are the idea-inspirers?

Who are the idea makers? Who are the people who inspire others to be idea makers?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

widely see, inclusively play

My job is to think more deeply and widely. My job is to invite others to widely see and inclusively play.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

The first motion

The first motion is love
Love only knows give
There is no second

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

We need to be about tikkun olam–

We need to be about tikkun olam—
tinkering with,
tickling
the world

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

Poetry is how we say

Poetry is how we say
What we cannot say

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

Now some clouds

Now there are some clouds in the sky—cotton candy puffs which have been pulled apart, and some giant mouth is inhaling them from out of sight.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2009 | No Comments »

Two valid ways to learn

Life entices, demands that we jump in. Some of us are lost in that instant: we from then on kick and stroke and maybe swim just to stay afloat and to keep afloat those we with whom we have surrounded ourselves.

Maybe we will take a few precious moments to roll over and ponder just what our efforts are about, maybe even the curious fact that without our efforts we float.

And so the decades roll by with swells and whitecaps and we might after a time ponder.

Some do in fact figure it out at the start or early.

These are both valid ways to learn about life and how to live it; people who learn from one direction need not disparage people who have learned from another. And if we want to help people learn, we need to remember there are ways different from our own, from what we like and prefer, ways that for those they fit, are better.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2009 | No Comments »

What do we need to live?

What do we need to live? Food, water, air. But we also need freedom to move, to choose. And light! Admit this, at least to ourselves among ourselves: it gives us our size.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2009 | No Comments »

Finding purpose through action

The young man thinks to himself I must find my purpose before I can throw myself into grand actions. The old man has learned this is rubbish, knows that after years of actions great and mostly small, he is no closer to finding his purpose—and if he is one in a thousand he has found his purpose through action. Living of life more often defines purpose than the other way round.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 27th, 2009 | No Comments »

Blearning

Let’s get on purpose about Blearning. This is Web-learning, which is beyond computers but includes all forms of learning by doing, by mixing with other people.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2009 | No Comments »

Barns & straw

Barns & straw
Children & meeting
G*d moving
In all
Us

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2009 | No Comments »

Why are we here?

Why are we here?
To make the world larger
To make the world smaller
Larger: more inclusive, more creative, growing
Smaller: knowing, hearing each other, embracing
To make the world smaller
To make the world larger
Why are we here?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2009 | No Comments »

Love this time together

I love this time
Together
Truly joyed
To listen
To the one still voice
Of us

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2009 | No Comments »

Ourselves

Ourselves
Each other
See larger

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 26th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 933

Footprints in the Windsm # 933

Shall we see with the poet’s eye?
To the real, to the real
Flesh and mud and blood
To bone and marrow and quick
To life, to life, to real
Profit and true weal
Prosperity that lasts
When money and debt run out
To life which lives!
And hugs and tickles
Laughs, cries and bleeds
Grows
Among
Poets’ eyes


Please pass it on.

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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 25th, 2009 | No Comments »

In these money-short times

In these money-short times
In our money-fied culture
We have as many needs as before
& as many people & resources
To meet the needs as before
Let us then be up & doing
Putting heart and shoulder to
Bringing us together

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2009 | No Comments »

What is our duty?

What is our duty? To bring the world to one. Lost as we are among our muddled chaotic thoughts; conflicted as are our peoples pursuing angry selfish ends; running as we are headlong with increasing speed to the edge of the near abyss: to bring the world to one.

Somehow to stifle not our variegated creativity; to encourage our multitude of colors and cultures; to avoid bland sameness and its loss of hope, even to encourage contention and broad differences: to bring the world to one.

Teilhard’s Omega Point. G*d. Unity. Not some Utopian unity, but a dirty, bloody, heart pumping, muscle applying reality: get in the dirt and get it done, remembering that we are the gods, we are the ones for whom we have been waiting: it is all up to us, and it matters!

Muscle and heart-muscle. Nail and tooth and dream. Mud and sky. Us, together.

What is our duty? To bring the world to one.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2009 | No Comments »

These times are good for us

These times are good for us; we know what it is to hurt, to have no work—and to have much work to do—only no one pays. We know what it is to be sick of soul and able only to turn downward our eyes. We know and so we can help. Our hand is needed, with or without money to pay. For why should a nothing—lack of money—stand in our way?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2009 | No Comments »

Write it when you hear it

Write it when you hear it
conceive it
honor, respect
look again
extend
what is in your air

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 25th, 2009 | No Comments »

Words, poems, story, song

They take us to the edge
Then cling to us
—We might go beyond—
Words, poems, story, song

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2009 | No Comments »

Storm winds

Storm winds demand our attention
Moderate winds do the work, carry off
The waters of the melting snows
Whispers, to hear, take our effort

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 24th, 2009 | No Comments »

A larger economy

Our economy could be based upon meeting every need, rather than some withholding from some.

It appears to me that our economy is based upon Have-nots being willing to part with cash or debt (is this enslavement?) in exchange for what the Haves have: toys, fine clothes, houses and cars, even food and care for our elders. I have it, so I can extract money from you, money which I in turn use to obtain from someone who has something I need or want.

If instead I see my role as meeting a need and someone else meeting mine (not something I buy, for that proves we are not equal), we have a caring- and giving-based economy.

This is not Utopian, for it requires not the elimination of currency nor commerce. What it does require is an utter reversal of thinking: from I take mine first, to we give first. Selfishness is not the first rule of commerce, as Adam Smith supposes, but meeting needs is. Needs run ahead of selfishness, even in the selfish person.

What it leads to is this picture: we look for more needs to fulfill, rather than what we have to sell. We use our imagination and creativity in the service of more people and a wider world.

As we devise new ways to meet needs, we find that new needs ever arise to call to us. The world spirals up faster than if we are crabbily grasping what little we have, trying to protect and secure more. We commonly say about crooks: “If only they’d used all that ingenuity to work with, not against society….” Yet that finger we are pointing points to us: If only we would use our ingenuity to work with not against our fellows, our earth….

The world is about giving our lives in service to something larger than ourselves. The news is presently full of the outcries of the poor charities and needy, as well as the rich and famous, from whom monumental amounts of money have been taken by one man. The man may go to jail, but the larger punishment is to know that his life came to this: nothing. He was a small ball of greed, growing ever smaller, and he could have been larger, could have embraced the world.

So what of us? Will we rise to the challenge and make an economy—laws of the household—or even an ecology—wisdom of the household—that acknowledges we are a household? Will we give—as creatively and ingeniously as we are able? Will we make the world larger?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
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