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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2451

In gathering
The field of the
Unanswerable wonder

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Some researchers stop at discovering misunderstandings or agreement. Harvesters wait and go into the fields and orchards when fruit is fit and ready.

:- Doug.

There is value in researching our own imaginations; we never suspected.

:- Doug.

We think, apparently only, by means of holding one thing next to another: you to me; a measuring tape to a board; a robin to an eagle. Call these by their true names: relations; comparisons; teachers.

:- Doug.

How is one to seek out elders when one is of such years? Ahh, but elders are not of years made. Ahh, but there is elder stuff in us.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2450

Think the two of you
are working out how
better to converse? No.
Conversation is bellows,
hammer, tongs, and fire
pounding you to some
shape of together.

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There may not be time but there is probably rhythm.

:- Doug.

If we are also what others remember of us then gathering even means we are memories held by another. Not so much to give us immortality, but to extend our touch.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2449

Smile Anyway (It’ll drive him nuts!)

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What questions do we ask to find one another? There has to be a stripping of our selves, a poking of holes—and large ones—from our side.

:- Doug.

Maybe there is a peculiar “meaning” that arises from each relationship.

:- Doug.

Can we force ourselves, in this conversation, to choose between two courses, either of which would show us our true selves?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2448

I want to jump up and down,
dance & shout!
What? I don’t know! It’s grand!
Let it out! Run & play!
This is life!

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It seems it is not that I was waiting for it to find me, but that I was waiting to find it. No, I was waiting to be readied to find it.

:- Doug.

Weird is whole, too.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2447

What kindness have you witnessed this week?

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He is a story-killer. If it’s not plain vanilla, without sweetness, without clouds, without pain, it is suppressed. He lives in a boring world. He needs it thus to feed his seething.

:- Doug.

A conversation is sacred travel.

:- Doug.

It is no longer personal—this conversation is of human import.

:- Doug.

God is my word for something larger than that.

:- Doug.