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Such is the time
this time where we find ourselves
do we find ourselves?
at any time?
Such is the time
that it allows us to find
more than one person
whom we are among
such is the laughing time
such is the weeping time
Such is the time
for now
even eternal now
Such is our time
is time ever for a sole person?
Such is the time
fleet of foot
a short childhood
even a short adulthood
so soon grey so soon wrinkles
yet idling among us a long noon
Such is the time
do we stretch it
or us
or some other way to?
Such is the time
such are our times
fat and starving
always hearing never heard
always chattering never saying
what’s really in us
that could change our world
Such is the time

:- Doug.

Each of us is the center
because all of us are the center
so we can open the space
simply by opening

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1008

Giving the invitation is the first gift; continuing to give it is perhaps the larger gift.

Please pass it on.

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How can a day look pretty? What does that mean? It means it is favorable to the human senses, which includes the wind in our face, the sun shining off things we like to see, sharpness perhaps, and a happy feeling. So feelings and emotions are wrapped up in it. It is an observed thing, not so much an objective thing. Or is it? If you ask other people, at least from the same geographic area, a strong majority of them will agree that the day is pretty. Is there not cause to see the prettiness then as objective, out there, really existing?

:- Doug.

A Will can be sacred.

:- Doug.

We are about gathering, planting, propagating living among us. There is life here in the person who is entering a nursing home, in the person who is in need of a guardian: how best to fully realize the life that’s there?

:- Doug.