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I’ve been aware for awhile now that the state licenses blind people to drive. I never realized how many: sitting here with the power out I watch people drive through the intersection obviously not seeing the stop signs, nor the lights out.

:- Doug.

Create! Create!
The task of life
Our task to accept, reject
What have you
Lately?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1562

Open the playfulness jars
spirit will show up
open any jar

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Everything that is alive moves
Not everything the moves is alive
Or is it?

:- Doug.

To feel poor takes much time.

:- Doug.

I observe
I write
And then I ponder

:- Doug.

The storm does not care
whether it’s snow or rain
does not choose
it meets
the cold or warm
it meets other air
together blowing dancing

:- Doug.

over balance seek equanimity
it is longer
you will last
you will go anywhere
surer-footed

:- Doug.

This work might change
A life or two
So I must publish

:- Doug.

I ask your kindness.

:- Doug.

Poetry is for me a practice.

:- Doug.

Hear the tree: wind makes us shimmer.

:- Doug.

This is going to be a good day!

:- Doug.

I was thinking about the challenges trying to invent a new way around a computer issue, learning new ways to relate to people from the Validation Method, and taking on new things with clients which allow me to learn new things. These all draw me in and I enjoy it. Life is fresh every day.

I suppose there could come a time when illness, disability, pain, and dementia could team up to prevent me from seeing freshness, and then perhaps I would think about life differently. For now, be fresh!

:- Doug.

Life is too fresh to retire from it!

:- Doug.

This one little tree hangs
on to its red-brown as
the wind shimmers its
leaves, not everyday so
much: today spirit moves
through us do we bend
with, like one little tree?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1561

Grin-on-your-face creativity: I enjoy this conversational creativity, even when I am opposed. Even when it is a slog uphill. Let’s not berate the hill, let’s remember the whee! on the other side. The people who say eehw at what we propose are only showing the flip side. There is hope with them and if they do not get over it, we can get over them: Next!

Please pass it on.

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What the terrorists are doing is what they fear most.

:- Doug.

When we look at Alzheimer’s, especially in a nursing home, we may miss the trees for the forest. We hear the din and see the varied ways people have to become confused. We think “If I had to work here I’d go running away screaming.” Yet see the little events. See the staff member coming to sit with the yelling elder, saying “Tell me what you think of this woman, but let’s not let her know yet.” See the resident grow quiet and conspiratorial. See the staff member gently massaging the man’s feet till he wakes, smells the baking cookies, and is ready to be wheeled to lunch. The world is forest and trees.

:- Doug.

Probate is a job that needs doing. Other tools do not eliminate the work—they do it in other ways or other times. They shift the pack, but don’t reduce the burden.

:- Doug.

How might we act in this moment the might create a more valuable moment?

:- Doug.

Of the trickling water
The other side
Through
To what?
Whom?

:- Doug.

What do we want, in the end?
A life ended
Completed, fulfilled, finished
Maybe, just maybe
Rounded out

:- Doug.