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These years are precious, sacred for the generations.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1823

The wind comes to you
always comes to you
without music, strong, often gentle
you need not go to it
its music is only with
—the old house’s windows
—the barn door creaking, banging
—the inside of a flute sorrowing
with, only with, needs another
comes to you
comes in silence, concert, keening

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What value are we to the generations?

:- Doug.

What direction are we moving as a people? What exchange might we have among generations?

:- Doug.

We older ones are going to be unreasonable.

:- Doug.

This is a nation, not a consternation.

:- Doug.

Old knows what adult cannot guess.

:- Doug.

Old people are smarter than you.

:- Doug.

Grandma
sitting
effectual

:- Doug.

Even while being more than doing, elders can be effectual.

:- Doug.

Being might be doing seen from the viewpoint of the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

We are not still but now.

:- Doug.

Life could be complex spontaneity.

:- Doug.

Hear now be nothing

:- Doug.

Little melody
echoing long
traces from
both ends
of the valley

:- Doug.

O pray to be useless—like art.

:- Doug.

Grand people can transfer
value across generations
by scolding for

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1822

Take your elder home: visit the old places, even if you cannot enter. Seek entry risking being turned away: you may be welcomed. For sure it will be a meeting of a new circumstance worth telling.

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What is left when we old ones have left?

:- Doug.

There’s an angel in that child
urging her up and out
and in that elder as well

:- Doug.

How we choose to age.

:- Doug.

Deeply into aging, with a purpose.

:- Doug.

Each one when old has the possibility to make one’s own soul.

:- Doug.