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Earlier I was pondering the picture that I am wind: zephyr, air, gust, storm. It is perhaps a Germanic way of thinking: sturm und drang. In any event, does it help me to do this work by seeing myself as the carrier of the Footprints^sm? Does it make me the threads or the nodes? It says I am of spirit and meeting. The verb to wind, as in twist a thread around, seems not related to the air and ruach, but to wend, weave, wander. But both are called up by the modern English wind.

So folding, en- and un-, fit, as does breathing. Air, blast, breeze, cyclone, gale, gust, breath, puff, typhoon, zephyr, curl, curve, meander, spiral, twist, weave, wrap, encircle, entwine, envelop, furl, reel, roll, twine, wreathe, wriggle. Words I like.

:- Doug.

Another Country is telling me I am more a product of my times than I had realized. My desire to open up is in the time zone of the 60s, not of the 40s. So when clients tell me all is fine, and they are of my parents’ generation, then I want to hear that as where they grew up, and recognize that they want and need to buck up and bear their own burdens. Not being a burden to others is of their generation. Ours may be extending that with our feral independence. I need to move people and myself beyond these impasses to love. My struggle with conversation may be that I am of the hinge generation, swinging from stoicism to open love.

:- Doug.

The living have work to do
What we can see
Might not be all they are doing

:- Doug.

All we have is ourselves
Our betweens
What will we make of these?

:- Doug.

The wonderful
is often strange

:- Doug.