FootprintsintheWind.com

How else do we get more human? When have we?

:- Doug.

Being human: what are our possibilities, together? Can we open huge territories? Not narrow us to one set of values, rather expand?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2057

A weighty log
releases its heat and light
and our flame-staring reverie
becoming fertilizing ash
lightness to float away in morning

Please pass it on.

© c 2021, Learning Works, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: 574/291-0022, or by e-mail to mailto:Footprints AT FootprintsInTheWind.com. Back issues available at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com

Can we get to more human?

:- Doug.

If we have a choice
How do we get to
More human?

:- Doug.

What is the skill of being human?

:- Doug.

By conversing more human.

:- Doug.

Conversing we get more human.

:- Doug.

A conversation to help us be more human.

:- Doug.

Do you converse with your dog?

:- Doug.

When you cannot talk physically, you figure out some other way to do it.

:- Doug.

My work has been how to make this conversation concrete and alive; now the work is to enter the conversation. Previously to project the expedition; now to set foot in the terrifying land.

:- Doug.

If you read books or newspapers, if you observe people, if you converse with friends, watch movies, ponder what you take in, you are conversing with your 11th generation, because you are thinking in their direction, because you are seeking to get better at being human.

:- Doug.

We’re working with our 11th generation at getting better at being human.

:- Doug.

Give it 300 years—it’s not that we can make a better humanity, but we might get better at being human. Note well that generation will need to work with generation, not just each starting over at the same place.

:- Doug.

Ultimately grandchildren remain
to us mystery
as they must
you can only converse
after you live into
this relationship
and this ever only partially

:- Doug.

My grandchild, my Muse.

:- Doug.

I will share with you my thinking on these matters; it will be your task to correct my course, and to pull me further. To that end, we will all talk. A lot.

:- Doug.

Do you have faith
in these
they incline to you

:- Doug.

you will know them by
the thoughts of their hearts
but words and images will be denied you

:- Doug.

Maybe we reach a place where we experience living in one another:

Like God in us in God
Like spouses making a marriage

In the stage following
the poetry among us sings
Beyond defines

:- Doug.

This course is lived poetry.

:- Doug.

The task of the course is discovery, not pedagogy.

:- Doug.