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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 813

We are both fighting as if
one of us will win
and ever stay unchanged
This is delusion: each
and both of us will
change—die—
otherwise or hopefully
in the fight
The sooner, the sooner
It’s not the changing
but resisting changing
that hurts
and hurts us—
and there is sunshine
and spring on the earth beyond

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You have heard
Without vision the people perish
Now I say
with my little mouth and small voice
With vision, the people astonish

:- Doug.

Advertising
helps us see
we are not satisfied
with the world as it is
we want more
We are not heard
we are not filled
and we sure are not emptied
We want more
what more is best?
To fill ourselves
or to empty ourselves
to use up all our abilities?
To get all we can or to give?
To be heard down the eons?
To touch each other and live?

:- Doug.

This is about expanding our expanding eyes. Only a greater world will satisfy humankind’s expanding eyes.

:- Doug.

The next stage of evolution is choosing life: creation. This is imagination at play. We can, together, create a better world. If we do not hang together, we hang separately, we die. So it is a movement together, making use and celebration of our individual voices, to create the new and better. We must weave a better world, for is it right? Is it good? Do all benefit? Are all heard and made use of, celebrated? Even when they are, there will be improvement to be made, for there will always be love to be given.

:- Doug.