Human higher?
What’s the higher and better for which humanity might reach?
:- Doug.
What’s the higher and better for which humanity might reach?
:- Doug.
What does poetry mean to me? Beauty, wonder, conversation, spirit, complexity, making, creating, inventing, beyond words.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2098
Begin wider
the circle
nudge out
Please pass it on.
© c 2022, 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
Please publish in your print or electronic periodical, with the above info.
To subscribe, send an e-mail with the word “subscribe” to mailto:Footprints AT FootprintsInTheWind.com
The Work is to increase the proportion of poetry in the world. Won’t you join me? What does poetry mean to you?
:- Doug.
I want to make poetry—make making—make beauty out of the human.
:- Doug.
Where does the urge to live lead? Toward what does the arc of human bend?
:- Doug.
If you want your children to do better than you, that spells different from what you have done.
:- Doug.
I want people to be agents, actors, doers in their own lives, in humanity, in life! Humanity is not done growing up; life is not done. I can help a little.
It will take thinking. It will take action. From each of us, and together. It is time to move while we yet can think and do. What do you do human that could be done wonderfully? Together?
:- Doug.
I am inviting people—you!—to do human. Wonderfully.
:- Doug.
I don’t intend to save the world. Only humans.
:- Doug.
All embraces conversation. Or maybe conversation embraces all.
:- Doug.