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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 958

What if the trees were alive
& you & I
& between us these shimmering spaces
rocks & roadways & spinning moons—
whom could we be & what could we do?

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This Red Adair is not about putting out fires, but fanning them. It is about disorganizing, because what we have organized was for the old humanity, and that is passing away, we are coming anew, and we need new ways of seeing and relating with each other. No longer do we respond to mass mailings and speeches at us; we need to be involved. This is the energizing that is going on: to say that we not only can be but ought to be and want to be engaged. No longer are we Its and collections of Its who can be organized to march and force people against their wills. No longer are we a large number of people, a mob, a crowd. No longer are we consumers of things or ideas. We are persons, we are individuals, we are meeting each other.

:- Doug.

We are evoking a new species. We have never been here before, and where we go from here is our choice.

:- Doug.

I will not write a book unless it is alive.

:- Doug.

We are the origin, the beginning, the birth.

:- Doug.

It is precisely here, in the cracking open, that genesis takes place. There is a space, and a seed, and nutrience, and a reaching for the light, which calls to us. Work, work against odds, help us.

:- Doug.

If we make it our purpose to create a new species, the trans-human, then…?

:- Doug.