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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1409

We grow in humanness
as we age
and that only by way of
being softened
To become wise is to become vulnerable
the older we get the more drops away
life takes
this is the school of aging
and the work of each of us aging
the more we lose the more we grow
to accept vulnerability is the path
The living have work to do
right up to the very last breath

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Everything in your art.

:- Doug.

I am gathering butterflies to invent possibilities. Possibilities for living-kindness. We are at the center of the universe, and gathering those centers means new worlds are sprouting with the first word of conversation. The work is through grief and imagination, knowing that the world is a combination of what confronts us and how we interpret it. We ask too much of people.

:- Doug.

What possibility do we hold for our community?

:- Doug.

We can only do small local things. But since this is the center of so many universes, our reach is great. Since major things come in small packages, we can hope. We are where we need to be doing what we need to do to have an inordinate effect.

:- Doug.