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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1891

This fog envelops me
Why won’t you let me see?
Did you descend a cloud from sky?
Or rise from pond and saturated earth
And stillness in the wind?
Or from the breath of people round?
It matters not: my vision’s circumscribed!
I start to see the little things
Closer, larger, larger
My contending begins abating
Softness rolling in or out, down or up
It matters not: intimate now this mist
And I contented turn toward home

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1890

Maybe the most helpful thing we can do for the generations of humanity is to tell our stories with authenticity, so they can derive their own questions.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1889

I only had a normal life
Even though I sigh
Important it is to know
I lived
I was awake

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1888

The challenge point
is in “happily ever after”
the hero bringing the boon
here the forces grey
hold you hero in their ooze

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1887

The immigrants you hate
owned the land before
your grandparents invaded

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1886

That long arc, the one that bends towards justice: do you suppose we might shorten it?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1885

So much depends upon
a really good stretch

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1884

When you meet, shake hands,
want to yell at the one who
gets the space you wanted,
or at a child moving too slowly,
please remember:
there is an infinity inside
each
& a larger one inside
together
see this & touch

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1883

Do the future now.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1882

They flit they float sometimes they meet sometimes they swirl around one another in a dance up up. Butterflies gather nectar and pollen they share around they are blown and tossed they travel unexpectedly fast and far. They sit and sun themselves looking beautiful but not so beautiful just out of the chrysalis. Unheard unattended except by those listening on their frequency. See. Each person a mariposa.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1881

It is a mistake to make anyone a foreigner, whether to our table, our ideology, or our humanity. All are as we are, and we might in some times be as others now are. All we are is human. That is our calling, the highest.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1880

The freedom to speak my heart
the freedom to hear yours
where do we find these
in our rounds?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1879

Let us remind us of ourselves
We are here
We can hear
This essence
Beneath the hurly-burly
Beneath the jittery
Things we must get done
Here
Here are we
Ourselves
We have worth
Just as we are here
Put again mind
And Heart
To—as we are—
Ourselves
It is this covered-over
Essence of us
Individually and together
Which Life itself
Demands of us
Uncover!
Set in motion!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1878

The core question is how to touch the numinous in one another.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1877

There is only one world, and our own minds make of it walls and locks. Talking and hearing rips windows into the walls and opens locks. Talking is the inviting, hearing the accepting.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1876

Some days you’re the baby, some days you’re the diaper.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1875

Why 300 years? Because it lifts our sights beyond those with whom we are able to talk. Because those in 300 years are close enough we can imagine them, but far enough away we are forced to think longer, in terms of lineages and species. Because we need to raise our sights beyond the quick fix. Because we are forced to ask what is best for humanity and maybe even life itself. Because it requires us to ask, How does what I do and who I am today have effects beyond me? Can we improve humanity, just a little?

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The story is always about more than the story.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1874

The story is always about more than the story.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1873

Telling our story one to another we expect something from teller, from hearer. What? It is precisely this turning to one another, this expectation. When we are heard we receive. We receive when we are received. This flow between us says to each and to group, you matter. Intuitively we know: in this flow we become more whole. Here is a clue to the something of all meeting, whether conversation or story or dance.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1872

Ask a grandchild to read to you.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1871

Stretch enjoyably
and immediately after your muscles are
your whole world
Exhausting effort-filled day
so tired you sit almost asleep
a special meditation
In prayer without words
without images
attention beyond attention
These the times
These the communion

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1870

Hate is a failure of imagination
a failure of willingness to work
to find yourself in others

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1869

How might you name this grandchild? Bright eyes, Beloved, Curious, Firefly, Grasshopper, Wonderful, Mighty: what do you see in whom you see? Can your sight draw her out? Help her see her humanity, animality, divinity?

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