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Footprints in the Windsm # 2300–No, not just like me

Footprints in the Windsm # 2300

No, she is not just like me
Yes, she has such loves and hates as I
No, she is then warm when I am cold
Yes, we shun the other’s arguments
No, she is not enemy, and is not friend
Yes, we can each other bring much worth
No, we won’t know when it is a gift


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 6th, 2024 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2299–Transpose biological life to high art

Footprints in the Windsm # 2299

Is not this what conversation is about, to transpose our mere biological life to art? To high art?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 3rd, 2024 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2298–Our desire to be gods

Footprints in the Windsm # 2298

Our recognition of our losses, our admitting to incompleteness: these reveal our desire to be gods. The same is true of our desire for control. Not being able to control, to be complete, to prevent our losses: we throw these needs upon our God or gods, whether these accept or not. There might be value in finding a way to live with loss, incompleteness, and lack of control, because that may be the way of life.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 30th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2297–How we pray

Footprints in the Windsm # 2297

What if conversation were how we pray?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 27th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2296–Takes two hands to pray

Footprints in the Windsm # 2296

It takes two hands to pray
a head who’s willing to bow
an open palm
a nevertheless will
so spirit to spirit can reach out

Two hands here raised in righteous fervor
across the gathered multitudes
“prayer” they say
And “love”
with fists they shake at one another

The one who said “nevertheless”
hears their fists
with head bowed

It takes two hands to pray
right and left
or the opening palm of the one with no hands
that we the ones with fists for hearts
might find what it takes to pray


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 23rd, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2295–How different this world

Footprints in the Windsm # 2295

How different this world could be if we knew others would talk with us.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 20th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2294–never was the stuff of life

Footprints in the Windsm # 2294

We live beyond our power to name and hold
ethereal lights in th’ heavens and across the table
blinking allow us no full comprehension
coherence never was the stuff of life
in breezes hiding mantis robin’s gone


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 16th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2293–Complex as life

Footprints in the Windsm # 2293

Conversation ought to be
Complex as life


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 13th, 2023 | No Comments »

No dream endings to satisfy

Footprints in the Windsm # 2292

Formerly I’d awaken thwarted by my dreams: they did not end satisfyingly, but only stopped. Now I see there is a message to be extracted: Life goes on. There are no endings to satisfy and say this is how it turned out. Life goes on.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 9th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2291–Violence fear grief

Footprints in the Windsm # 2291

Violence grows from Fear. Fear has its roots in Grief.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 6th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2290–A good greed

Footprints in the Windsm # 2290

Our desire to learn is maybe a symptom of a more primal desire to embrace—to embrace more and more and more of the world. This is a good greed. I want to love my loves and all who touch them. This is why it grieves me to see people who want to strike out, push away, hate.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 2nd, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2289–Let go the right word

Footprints in the Windsm # 2289

Let go the right word so a more fanciful one can float up.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on November 29th, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2288–When sitting this close

Footprints in the Windsm # 2288

When sitting this close
and breathing-in one another
we risk mixing up our atoms


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 2287–Our longest reach

Footprints in the Windsm # 2287

It is our longest reach
conversation is how we serve


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 2286–Pursuing short-gevity

Footprints in the Windsm # 2286

The cure for dementia may lie hidden in our centuries-long quest to live for centuries: our reaching after longevity. We are told one of the surest risk factors for dementia is advancing age. Dementia reveals to us how intricate our brains are, simply by the infinite ways we lose our ways. This one is anxious, that one is bland, another grows angry, still another cannot make sense of what she sees. The human brain, at least in its operational capacities, seems to have a Mean Time Before Failure. Perhaps we should pursue short-gevity.


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 2285–Precarious place

Footprints in the Windsm # 2285

A most precarious place
this conversation


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 2284–Deer in my yard

Footprints in the Windsm # 2284

Deer in my yard
What is your world?
Large
But hidden
And appearing


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 2283–A scrap only

Footprints in the Windsm # 2283

The one who brings a scrap
The one who brings a scrap
of beauty wins—for us


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 2282–When nettlesome gristle

Footprints in the Windsm # 2282

When
you feel that little nettlesome
ruffle in the back of your craw
when you find the satisfaction
of spontaneous hugs from
your grandchildren within play
when you just can’t get through
to your beloved about taking that trip
when life is now is life
is grit is gristle is grind
is grand
now is when
the ineffable makes song
this shared talking
whatever it is
is life
is when
and why and plenum and life’s
workshop


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 2280–Wrestling by writing

Footprints in the Windsm # 2280

Wrestling by my writing
Those learned and trained and tired ways
Mechanical dull footed lists and recitals
And pressed imagination
What lives beyond and fills the cool air
Can give us life
Give us us


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 2281–You the uninvited

Footprints in the Windsm # 2281

You the uninvited
Must invite yourself


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on November 2nd, 2023 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 2279–a daily touch

Footprints in the Windsm # 2279

Conversation is at once a little thing and a big thing, a daily happening, and a way we touch generations.


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 2278–Cars are ways to care

Footprints in the Windsm # 2278

Footprints in the Windsm # 2278

Do you see that cars are ways human care for other humans? Do you see that some suppose they are doing these car things for pay?

William Blake wrote “I assert for myself that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action. ‘What!’ it will be questioned, ‘when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea?’ Oh! no! no! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host, crying, ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!’ I question not my corporeal eye, any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it.”

After the same way St. Francis wrote his canticle to Brother Sun and Sister Moon, Brothers Wind, Air, and Fire, Sisters Water, Mother Earth, and Death.

What can you say?


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