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Can we take seriously
ourselves, our grandchildren, life, & love?

:- Doug.

Tell your grandchildren
your story, our story
the one story of stardust
& galaxies of stars
& galaxies of livers, stomachs, & legs
& galaxies of boys & girls & fishes & fjords
& galaxies still to be birthed

:- Doug.

It could be a matter of throwing a line in the water, trolling. What would I use as bait? My soul, my spirit. Somehow.

:- Doug.

Let us tell our spirits
If that’s not possible, our souls
If not that, our stories

:- Doug.

Take heart
—a seed—
to tell, to sound

:- Doug.

Life is risking on every front
So?
Risk!

:- Doug.

Let us our wisdom tell
Deep and true sounding

:- Doug.

What is going on
In eldering?
Something beyond waiting?

:- Doug.

The young one is called west
The old maybe east

:- Doug.

Wisdom might be
Spirit growing
Youthful

:- Doug.

Words
Get in
The Way

:- Doug.

Imagination
Touches
Spirit

:- Doug.

To keep the words
—and the poetry—
coming
I have to work
At inviting them in

:- Doug.

Are not as important
The words as the
Search to turn out the soul

:- Doug.

For development of the human divine
in us, out of us, among us
is necessary:
reflection, writing poetry,
meditation/contemplation, fun,
conversation, silence, story-telling,
spirit-telling

:- Doug.

I see myself in that.

:- Doug.

Let’s assume there is something more at stake and look for it. You’re presumed profound until proven less.

:- Doug.

Let’s not assume I know what you mean or you know what I mean—let’s check it out. Ask, Is this what you mean? We cannot know where assumptions are at play, so we must ask many times more.

:- Doug.

Wisdom and maturation are two matched legs that propel us along. Wisdom is not a goal but part of a process.

:- Doug.

What brings joy these days? Is joy related to wisdom?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1627

It’s not so much that “those” who run the far off corporate headquarters buy from sweatshops. It is much more that we all have become lax in holding one another to highest standards. As many as we are, and as far away, we are still a human community. We grow that community by our every action and choice, by what we write in letters to the editor and to the CEOs, what we tell each other in shops, offices, churches, and coffee houses.

Please pass it on.

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Wisdom is something a step beyond maturation.

:- Doug.

Wisdom is of the imagination. If we do not see something in our imagination, if we do not find meaning in our imagination, there is no wisdom. Wisdom is about meaning and doing the right thing well. Wisdom is beyond knowledge, yet knowledge would not exist without imagination in which to store it, retrieve it, and manipulate it. Wisdom manipulates knowledge, makes it more useful, especially over time as knowledge grows stale and outdated, its shadows, held in the imagination, can guide us. Wisdom is of imagination, made useful in pointing our way.

:- Doug.