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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2516

It’s not that I realize time is short and I need to cram in more trips and more hot chocolates. I do realize the value of moments lost or thrown away with the word, “Later.” I do live the life I want and it is filled richly with persons. Every person I chance upon is important to me and I am curious. They might just be a person with whom I can find our one face—and let’s act upon it when the opportunity shows up.

In the same way, I want to finish the book in the next three weeks, my “high risk period,” my “high rich period.”

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2515

We are not so afraid of AI
as of ourselves
unexplored

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2514

Trees do not live so very long
not so long a’ tall
if one counts their day
as one trip around old Sol’
their sleep time when earth leans away
their work day when it leans in
and we the little
two-legged ants
scurrying about
oblivious
because trees do not snore!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2513

Is it good we don’t have words for some things?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2512

I realized that I am living the life I want to be living. I have a loving family, all good persons. I am doing the work I want to be doing. I am conversing with and meeting people and doing a few things for others directly, as well as this large thing, The Last Hot Chocolate, for my human family writ large.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2511

The sweetness of this planet, O!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2510

Curiously, I was placid in my spirits, tending a little to elation, the whole time in the hospital. What is the right word? Tranquil, serene, gentled, free, peace, content, blissful? Yes, blissful comes close: grace and favor, gentle and kind, in addition to merriment and happiness. There was a sense of dawning happiness. Even though the one people mover managed to lose my note cards (I had two good poems, and who knows what else). In the days since I have felt my mood being more and more toward the joyous side.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2509

Anything that happens to others can happen to me.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2508

One effect of conversation is to change the speed of our thinking, especially when compared to thinking alone. It slows and speeds. Also it extends thinking in breadth and direction, so it encompasses more. We can morph these effects into purposes and practices.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2507

He’s the Cranky Old Man In Chief.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2506

What comes out of a person!
Writers for instance:
Josh, so masterful
Yvonne, so scent-catching
David, burly bearded, so sensitive
James, locking you in
A darkened theater,
Doug, flying so bewildered
Read. Hear
Rivers gushing unguessable
Under mountain ranges

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2505

May we be kind.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2504

Bent old man leans
farther over a piano
in a railway station
playing lively complex tunes
Someone has taken effort

and time from life to video
Soon a younger grey-haired
man joins in on the
right side keys
his watch on his right wrist

The tunes get livelier the
people come around mostly
stay take pictures tap toes
Maybe this liveliness
changes someone’s track

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2503

To be kind to someone is to converse.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2502

We have to run the risk that what we say and think and do will be to good effects for the generations. It may just be true in this here and now.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2501

To converse is to change the form of a person.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2500

By writing we discover things and people we didn’t know there were. Possibilities we had not met. So we ought to give conversation a chance if there might be a might be.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2499

We can decide the challenges we issue.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2498

An ancestor is one for whom unknowing going is the name of life. What people will do with what he or she left them cannot be imagined. It is the way of trusting folks unmet. It is saying human nature—life’s nature—can be depended upon. Will it be for good or ill? That simply names the shape of your mind, O ancestor.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2497

Without ears we can have no vision.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2496

What is outward? It is extending acts of love to those we don’t think can return it. But do they not? When I read the work of Tolstoy, Whitman, Rúmí, do I not converse with them, argue with them, carry their being into mine and into my world, returning it to the earth from which it came? That is the circle that conversation describes, yes?635-2025

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2495

He tried to BURY us,
But we are SEEDS

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2494

Hear, here in the fire

Life hints and teases
to uncover what
you will do

Does the forest sway,
today,
to the rhythms of the flame?

It is mysteries
the unknowing
that keep us going

Now we light the fire
or carry the brand
handed to us
to hand on to you
but never to see
what you will
do

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