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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1973

On meeting the stranger unmasked
stop
turn aside a bit as friendly gesture
pray
a bubble of protection surrounding

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1972

Apocalyptic times
we are living
a great uncovering
what to do
more how to be
to one another
point & ponder & point

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1971

A water we cannot see across
Of this we stand in need
A brink we must visit and visit

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1970

But you have a much larger gift you can give, or at least offer. However it will cost you. It will be a condor from out of nowhere sinking its talons into you, carrying you away, over the abyss. You have not found this gift if you do not scream.

This offering is called reflexivity.

This is where you turn the view upon yourself. You eviscerate yourself. Reflection is seeing the event from a distance, from an overview, recounting history and prediction.

Reflexivity is working on and being worked by how this event changes you and you it; and how your client is changed, and changes the event. It is a circle where cause produces an effect, and the effect produces cause. A spiral. You and your client caught up in it together. Caught up in life together.

This is poetry. This is making.

You may think I have been speaking prose with you this afternoon. Yet the language is somehow more. There is a hint of the lyrical. You too can speak and write poetry.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1969

I started off in life very young.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1968

Inviting
a bow
from the other
by his own deeper
with
his eyes
points a way
opens
with a
simple question and
the other floorward crumbles

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1967

For every right there is an equal and opposite right. Or rather several equal and plaited rights.

There are people maintaining they have all sorts of rights. Yet those rights end at the next guy’s nose. Both parties have rights, and in a country as big as ours, these rights are complexly braided. To pluck out one from the knot, you necessarily pull out several others. Rights are not alone, are ever befriended. We ask one another to be friendly.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1966

People are dying.
It won’t go away.
I may be carrying it.
Would you like me
to wear a mask?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1965

Have been thinking that I learned some things this last few days, and most of it has been non consciously received, nor can it be expressed. It will ooze out during the days and weeks ahead. Expect some difference in depths and in ways to greet the world.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1964

Our message is against numbness.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1963

As we grow older, the more idio each of our syncracies.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1962

A role of elders is to place us in the streaming of the ages. The stream of otherwise. Of possibility. Of times discontinuous with the present.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1961

These are our tender-hearted days.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1959

To St. John’s Episcopal Church
To Bishop Budde
To the peaceful protesters
violently assaulted
with tear gas
and stun grenades
To the American people
whose rights to live in peace
safe from our own government
have been breached
To George Washington
To Thomas Jefferson
To Abraham Lincoln
To Martin Luther King, Jr.
To humanity:
For this President
I deeply apologize

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1958

Conversation is
that little red wheelbarrow
and the rain blowing

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1957

Dying—the wrestling of dying—
is skill-worthy
and you worthy of that skill
study those who are
at least don’t back away
don’t run
stand in that raging wind
for such a poet
this work is not difficult
it is the hardest could be
—and there are no promises

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1956

We are a forward-looking generation our eye on future possibles and aspirations seldom feeling the ground beneath our feet those ancestors and shunning to hear around us those others and species and formations making up our habitat and symphonia. What if we opened our nostrils and caught a whiff or two of the about and sought for with among all?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1955

Push off in your canoe
into waters chasing waters
which have already flowed by
into waters way out ahead
those waters which have yet
to fall as rain
and are way behind
see: the past is ahead
the future is trailing
and even this is good:
this river will turn you

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1954

To explore: Why must we insist on increasing our income, even our competition, in this covid time? We are the richest country on the planet: can we simply choose to live off our savings for a while? The rub is that there are those who do not want to release the stockpiles to help others to live. This is causing the angst.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1953

After this we will turn
we will choose for life
—or not

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1952

Resolution:
Let’s not let this haste
Make waste our
Population
And its humanity

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1951

There is no safety
Safety is a lie
Told as if true
Living is mystery
Turning in your hand

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1950

We have in covid time a season for our minds to lie fallow.

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