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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2030

Baby robins in spring-time
maple leaves shimmering
the rhythm of life
is a life-giving thing
is the meaning of life
not even a thing
is a dancing, dancing
ever changing up
shows us all there is
just lose yourself in it
you can never be lost in
The rhythm of life

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Work then wait
Effort
Percolation

:- Doug.

The wandering few
Taking Making Living
The roundabout route

:- Doug.

If you could, how would you start a conversation with an 11th generation elder? What if that conversation could only go 20 minutes before the window closed?

:- Doug.

Make a map of your conversational world.

:- Doug.

Where
roots
twine

:- Doug.

What subjects are worth conversing with our the eleventh generation?

:- Doug.

Roots spread out from here producing knots, bulbs, tubers, and branches at random points and times. Again, notes are sounded in variations on variations, generating new minds. Again, new limbs stretch in new dances from every generation. Profusion! Inventing! Conversing!

:- Doug.

What will they value? How will our 11th generation children be most closely unlike us?

:- Doug.

We don’t come out the same, if the conversation is filling its office.

:- Doug.

I found one! A conversation!

:- Doug.

I have been worried I will be lost when I turn solely to poetry. It seems the issue really comes down to the field is broad, and I want to find a simple word or short phrase to convince everybody. So right there I have at least 3 issues: 1. Life burgeons, it does not boil down; 2. Everyone will not agree; and 3. My task is to contribute not convince.

:- Doug.

Narrative education is a way to teach better: the learner’s stories inform all course-mates, lead us out.

:- Doug.

How can we enter the conversation of the ages?

:- Doug.

Go metaphorical every day!
Find meaning in each moment
Get excited!

:- Doug.