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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 765

See the filaments shooting
from node to node
you used to think we were the nodes
but now you see
the flashing threads are us
here for an instant or less
lighting up the Heavens

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How do you get people involved in public questions? What if…?

:- Doug.

Let’s require a ballot every 10 years to disband Congress. It would require a vote of 40% to pass. If we passed it, then the functions would be taken over by the registered voters.

We have the capacity, mentally, morally, and technically to govern ourselves directly. Do we have the guts?

:- Doug.

What is it about grandchildren that enlivens us?

:- Doug.

Father means close to me; Spirit means close to us all; Son means in the flesh.

:- Doug.

Life Imagination Giving Heard Twixt: light.

:- Doug.

G-d sings.

:- Doug.

Like birdsong
Here—Lovely—Gone
Background
Do we attend?
Draws us
Draws song out of us
Draws our song out of us
Haunts
Brings music to our lives
Calls us out of our lives
and into life
Speak like?
Walk like?

:- Doug.

I AM the one who meets.

:- Doug.

Each person, and especially each connecting, is an opening to a new universe. The center of humanity is spacious. It is spacious because it opens out into universes. Center, not inside. How big is the center of the earth, the center of a cloud? How big is anything? It all depends on where you, in your mind, set the limits. Is the limit of a person her skin? Or does she have a field of influence beyond that? In time as well as physically? The center of a person can be the universe; the center of humanity can be countless universes intersecting.

:- Doug.

Profound change goes slow at the start, yet involving persons makes change rapidly. What is going on? Simply that people have thought and pondered their questions. We have thought together, in conversation. When we see others are ready, we go. We know we will get each other through the slow times.

:- Doug.

Each an opening to a new universe.

:- Doug.

Loose connections remind us
how little we know
then how much

Fuzzy logic reminds us
the room is always larger
and we can always include one more

:- Doug.

Life is a respiration of This is as good as it gets and Surely we can do better. The way: contented in each.

:- Doug.

Do not try to hurry life or rush past a part of your day, which is after all a part of your life. Pay attention for G*d.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 764

When have you felt most alive or fulfilled?

Please pass it on.

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Goals are a misdirected desire to improve.

:- Doug.

If war is the answer could we perhaps ask a better question?

:- Doug.

There are ways to support our troops other than asking them to create harm’s way.

:- Doug.

It’s not a fallen world
It’s not yet perfect
and it’s moving
Fallen is a story we tell ourselves
a label to explain to our minds
what we see
We can choose to
see love and opportunity
be love and imagination
work together and separately
for a new earth
a new Heaven

:- Doug.

A path through the forest
—the forest’s alive
movement everywhere: the fast flies,
mosquitoes, butterflies, bees
the quick squirrel, chipmunk, deer, fox
the ponderous bear, the slow porcupine and mole
even the composting soil’s alive and moving
working, turning, making heat,
the plants, too are alive and move
turning their blossoms to the sun
or leaves to the rain
and casting their seeds on the winds
or into juicy fruits for animals to carry
yards or miles, so they too travel
just slower, over generations, centuries
all this life stands aside or goes ahead
making a path through the forest
for us
sometimes the path’s only there
in our seeing, not even our looking
for we see with our imagination
and make paths by combining empty places
our path through the forest
is just here, where others have made the way
or are not
it is never lonely for there is life all around
acting in concert—listen!—
unconsciously or consciously

:- Doug.

G*d wants to be heard
G*d wants to hear

:- Doug.

Who matters?

:- Doug.