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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1390

To criticize, to analyze
is to squint your eyes
and so your soul
to see less and less
but if we look in the direction
of what is marvelous
larger
we open ourselves
and might see
under the hide of things

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Strangers around the circle!
Strangeness in what they say!
Wait! What about…, what if…?

I grow!
Something emerges among us!
The world shifts!

An hour passes….

Friends around the circle!
Friendliness, agreeable things said!
Wait! Our thoughts rein me in.

Reining in can be for my good
I might step off a cliff
I might not see a helpful taboo

So how to meet our group well?

First, first! Open the spigot:
Let the water in, washing, quenching:
Drink it in soul deep, assimilate!

Later observe, be impartial.
Later still, discern.
Still, that is not all….

:- Doug.

One world
And we a part of it
We for what we love responsible

:- Doug.

“The old guard will always be here for us.”
“Of course! Thus it always was
Thus it ever will be.

“Only now, we are the old guard
It falls to us
As it will fall to the next ones
And we bring forth the older, faithfully
From our memory
Folding in our best.”

:- Doug.