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Footprints in the Windsm # 2216–Old man teeters

Footprints in the Windsm # 2216

The old man teeters, and the old woman steadies them both. Ahh.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 18th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2215–Neither of us knew

Footprints in the Windsm # 2215

Neither of us knew we had that in us. That is what I want to be able to say, at least once in a while, after a conversation.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 15th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2214–tunnel we dig another day

Footprints in the Windsm # 2214

Conversation is the tunnel we daily dig with an old spoon, out, out of the prison of our ego-skin. We wriggle out, play together in the free clear air. Then we go back in. We forget the way, we dig another day.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 11th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2213–Surrender my hand

Footprints in the Windsm # 2213

Surrender my hand
to the pen to the ink as
the leaf to the fall


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 8th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2212–Purpose of a word

Footprints in the Windsm # 2212

The higher purpose of a word
is not to transfer one notion
but to invite sanding of fingertips


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 4th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2211–feeling our way

Footprints in the Windsm # 2211

Be kind. We are each feeling the way in our dark.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 1st, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2210–10-year feral boy

Footprints in the Windsm # 2210

For years I’ve worked to make my words be clear
But now my voice must call from you, from me
A symphony, a 10-year feral boy


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 25th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2209–Leave something

Footprints in the Windsm # 2209

Don’t say it all
Leave something


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 22nd, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2208–Epidemic of others

Footprints in the Windsm # 2208

We have in our day an epidemic. It is fear. We fear one another: meeting, talking with, an other: someone we do not know and who is somehow other than us. It leads us to shy away from stranger conversations. It leads us to make others into less than human in politics. It leads young people hopped up on testosterone and adrenaline to shoot one another.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 18th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2207–Avoid judicious

Footprints in the Windsm # 2207

Avoid judicious. Speak out plainly. No moderation for me!


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 15th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2206–Forget my name

Footprints in the Windsm # 2206

I will write so I forget my name. Only the creation stands forth, alive, not creator. Perhaps then the reader will forget hers when she reads. Then together we will attain to home.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 11th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2205–Bigger yet

Footprints in the Windsm # 2205

Bigger insights are yet to come.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 8th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2204–Responsible for the whole

Footprints in the Windsm # 2204

Our responsibility conversing is for the whole, not just the project we are on—this is what brings life to the world. Bring life to the world. Life will bring the rest.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 4th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2203–Gone now

Footprints in the Windsm # 2203

Friends here briefly meet
transience and eternity
butterfly’s gone now


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 1st, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2202–My Sisyphus activities

Footprints in the Windsm # 2202

This morning I described my place in life as being done with my Sisyphus activities—no longer pushing a new snowball uphill each morning. Ha! Sometimes it gets large quickly and becomes near impossible to get it to the top. Sometimes it melts before it starts, with same result: it doesn’t make it to the top!


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 28th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2201–Continual surrender

Footprints in the Windsm # 2201

Conversation asks
continual surrender
of your old story


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 25th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2200–Here there be wizards!

Footprints in the Windsm # 2200

That’s it! The magic of which I have been catching glimpses all my life: the vast regions of life as it is lived, for which we lack adequate words. Here there be wizards: if only we could hear!


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 21st, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2199–touch your leg too

Footprints in the Windsm # 2199

This moment’s converse
the one who wrestled Jacob
might touch your leg too


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 18th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2198–A garden you once loved

Footprints in the Windsm # 2198

Where was a garden
You once loved?
It was shaped gradually
Any trickle
Helps plants to grow
Helps me to grow
Dirt under your nails
You cannot clean away
Nor would you want to
When was a garden
When will it be again?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 14th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2197–Forgotten/our story

Footprints in the Windsm # 2197

Forgotten
our story
parts anyway
important
we remember
forgotten
anyway
the unfolding
goes on
new things
to forget


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 11th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2196–a beer, a tear, a roaring laugh

Footprints in the Windsm # 2196

Some dirt, a bruise
a beer, a tear, a roaring laugh
o so profound is this
—and all of this—
the bottom of it all
we hid away
our aspirations
may we yet find
the essence of our lives
breathed upon
yes, breathed upon


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 7th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2195–Birds to look after them

Footprints in the Windsm # 2195

Birds to look after them
the trees of my woods
have these


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 4th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2194–The path with no end

Footprints in the Windsm # 2194

It is not about growing. I have written much about growing. Thought much about growing. But for one, growing has aspects of time, which may not be a real thing: time seems to be a human construct. For another, growing brings up notions of heaven and afterlives. Mainly it suggests that we are not living for now but learning for later. Education: being drawn out. Into what is real. Yet this too is real. We have a life to live, while we are educating, learning, planting, harvesting, paddling a canoe, hugging. Growing can be as well a step along the path with no end. What has no end—the path or the growing or the stepping?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 31st, 2022 | No Comments »
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