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Footprints in the Windsm # 1198–Grey is our world today

Footprints in the Windsm # 1198

Friend, the rain
Friend, the drizzle
Friend, the blanket of grey
Watering the trees for
Their winter’s long nap
Watering our roots
Grey is our world today
A backdrop for
The colors of spring
The growth of summer
But now the trees rest
And we, we work
Work, though we wish to nap
But primarily we wish
To engage our world
Engage the rain
Engage the all


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Neither the Tea Partiers nor the Occupiers…

Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats, neither Tea Partiers nor Occupiers, nor any one of us has the one right answer. The world is too diverse for that. To scream at each other because the other does not adopt our solution would be laughable if it were not so sad.

What is needed is to hear one another as to our needs. We fear that if the other is in the ascendancy, then we will not get what we need, and therein lies our need to scream. For if we do not get what we need, we are at risk for dying.

Yet there are myriad solutions: many get a job, some choose to start a business, or just get to work; some cook, some tend wounds, some weld steel; some engage heart, some head, some muscle and sinew. All have dreams and a direction and a need to be heard. When we are heard, when we are able to engage our creativity and strengths, the world improves by just that much.

What we don’t need is any “side” requiring everybody to acquiesce to their program. There are many ways. Let’s allow others.

:- Doug.

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Politicians are fundamentally at odds with US

Politicians are fundamentally at odds with us—because they think there is only one answer, one way. Business people as well, because they reduce life to Dollars and numbers. Neither is true because life and the us that is the world have many ways, many values beyond. A beating heart, a child’s laugh, the sheer immensity of the cosmos: all of this testifies to a cornucopia of responses, ways, answers, questions, stories, lives.

:- Doug.

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