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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1829

This morning the word “culmination” came strongly to me: Old age is a time (not the time) of completion, of wholeness and fullness, of a person and of a species. This life has matured, is all it has so far been. It is a world challenge.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1828

In these times we seem to talk past each other, when our talk could swirl among us.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1827

Aging is to eldering moments
as the stars and moon are to
northern lights

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1826

Since we are all flow your hand in the stream changes everything.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1825

The world was never
About us versus them
It’s all us

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1824

The essential sacredness of the elders is most present in the most frail. How is this true?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1823

The wind comes to you
always comes to you
without music, strong, often gentle
you need not go to it
its music is only with
—the old house’s windows
—the barn door creaking, banging
—the inside of a flute sorrowing
with, only with, needs another
comes to you
comes in silence, concert, keening

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1822

Take your elder home: visit the old places, even if you cannot enter. Seek entry risking being turned away: you may be welcomed. For sure it will be a meeting of a new circumstance worth telling.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1821

What you never
dared whisper
say aloud
your words
come out of
a great heart
your heart
and the great heart
share one beat

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1820

You’re not entitled to the silence you want, only the silence you get.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1819

Storytelling is more than telling stories. It is your why that matters. If you are doing it for your own reminiscing, if you are doing it out of love for your hearers, whatever reason is yours, your hearers will know. They will be bored in one instance, love you back in another. Get your why on straight and you will make a difference for someone.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1818

This last poem has not yet coalesced, but there it is: the bud about to open, the colors hinting.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1817

Bewildered are we
By those around
us—all their
Ideas and friends
And interweavings
Be still
A while
Let the water
Flow or settle
As it will
Clear itself
And us
Find the
Direction
Destination
Of humanity:
Many hearts
And one

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1816

Choice. We have. Choose riots and protest, death and looting. Choose letting forces of hate and division have their day. Choose a third way, without trail marked for us, loving for all fragile life’s sake.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1815

I am cumulus
a dot
Often stratus
a painted closing in ceiling
Or cirrus
some careless brush strokes
Ever moving morphing
hiding glowering present absent
Like poetry, reader, you make me change me lose me

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1814

I do not need to explain
I merely need to ask you
Your story
Here, we meet

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1812

Sooner or later your particles
all go back to random
pieces of all there is
ready to reassemble into something else
O the possibilities of you!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1811

To use this voice is to grow this love.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1810

Joy and love
Are what a child needs
Seems we could do that

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1809

The world is in deep doo-doo unless they listen to the elders. If they listen, they might still be in it. But hey, it’s worth a try.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1808

Live with butterflies by day and fireflies by evening, taste all flavors, dance the dances, bring all the lights from bright to soft, sing all the notes of the scale: playfully. Hug. With many voices we might yet sing one song.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1807

Conflict is un-banished
attack is received as signal
for hearing
for growing
for getting along
in that meeting-field
out beyond peace

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1806

a bridge a seed a spore
a dream a grandchild a field
a query an opening a freeing
a serendip an ancestor’s
roles

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