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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1932

She waged an heroic battle against her disease, we say. Why give disease that much power? Can we find some stories to tell, some conversations we need with which to embrace one another?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1931

The call of the elder may just be to live life as it comes to us, thinking in our every day of the later and earlier ones and our responsibility to them, knowing our own failures and successes are all part of the wrinkles of life, of what gives the wonder to it.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1930

Inseparable threads entangled
Weft: eldering is about gratitude, despair,
being turned, going forth:
entwined we are a green thread,
a red, a brown, yellow, blue, ochre
Warp: loving, conversing always!
story, spiritual discipline:
threads, gossamer and brilliant
So what about these others:
neither warp nor woof
angling across, bringing us a chuckle?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1928

When we look
into the eye
of the one
facing us
we can find
much
to
fear
…
fear
respect
admire
love

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1927

Across the stages, elders are etherealizing: getting larger and more capacious until they are indistinguishable from the mystery.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1926

We had thought the machines might take over our world, our minds. Recent news of robots made of living cells (frogbots/xenobots) and living concrete made from bacteria, suggest something other: life might take over machines. Or some other permutation you won’t think of while pondering this.

Then ponder further: in 300 years our grandchildren will be living in such a world. How can what stories you tell this day, what you write or think deeply about, be of help to those grandchildren living in such a world?

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I’m not demented—I’m augmented!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1925

I’m not demented—I’m augmented!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1924

In years
noticing our profound gains
choosing profound giving

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1923

Death is not a risk
It happens to us all

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1922

What can we do with story? And?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1921

Abandon hope. Do the work.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1920

Walking the train
new things to be seen
mountains out this window
valleys and fog out that
new voices
something seeps in
will not know for days

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1919

What are we learning from the desire for divisiveness current in our culture? How could this inform our lessons and messages for the generations?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1918

A major issue of our time is we are afraid of one another. Too afraid to open.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1917

My sister hugged my daughter in law
On Thanksgiving evening
My daughter in law’s mother is dying
Losing energy, losing memory
Slipping away, surely, over too few months
Her father too is sliding into a long good-bye
So my sister sat down next to my daughter in law
And God hugged my daughter in law helplessly

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1916

It’s up to me to change the world. Starting with changing me: seeing that I can change something in me that others may or may not change in themselves. Trust people. Meet people. Say the larger thing. Maybe they will: that does not matter. I have increased the world’s net conversing.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1915

Story may be a probabilistic fractal: where stories are applied with a dollop of randomness in each succeeding generation so that humanicity develops meaning.

So we cannot, ought not, seek to bestow our truth on the generations. Better we can ask them to develop their own. Give them a recipe to make recipes. Maybe they will pass along an even more fundamental recipe creation recipe.

What adds especial interest to this flow is the additional feedback loops that become possible as we find ways to extend lives: imagine an elder at 120 hearing a new truth from elders at 80 and 110, and together they bring forth an entirely new generation of truth.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1914

Humanicity is the quality of being human: the silver thread running through us all: the still small song heard across the valleys and the generations. Humanity is the eternal mid-point: the egg and the poult: the past and the potential: the endless dusty road and the breathtaking vistas.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1913

Has a dream
to give
the elder
for the grandchildren
much more subtle
than a dream
to give

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1912

The universe of things we can know is just outside the sphere of the things we know. So…the more you know, the more you don’t know. Simple as that.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1911

Dew and freshness starts the day
In light we make our hay
Infants become adults
And do we stop
On becoming elders?
Before moon & stars
& dancing northern lights?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1910

Send us your stories for 300-year grandchild elders.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1908

Premise: through discovered story and conversation we draw the generations to better humanity; we draw the species to become ever more whole and inclusive.

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