FootprintsintheWind.com

The title needs to draw in, closely perhaps.

:- Doug.

Emotions might be outgrowths of imagination.

:- Doug.

When I first took the decision to close my law practice it was gutsy. It was also necessary. The same could be said of 15 or so years earlier changing the thrust of that practice.

:- Doug.

Let’s survey across grand sweeps of time for patterns and possibilities.

:- Doug.

How we can discover new questions that might lead us to being human better. To finding sources of energy.

:- Doug.

Mutual changing

:- Doug.

Let us encounter our heartbeats
Let us meet in them

:- Doug.

For the space of an hour each week let us relocate the focus of our attention to grandparents 300 years away. Our work with them: can we get more human?

:- Doug.

Our covid year
a hiatus
to catch ourselves

:- Doug.

Our conversation may not reach across time, but we might touch timeless.

:- Doug.

Maybe we will find we cannot reach into their time; but we might touch the timeless.

:- Doug.

Zeldin draws pictures of the city fortified and the city port: one protecting inside from outside; the other trading with the world. Do you choose to be a fort or a port?

I like Zeldin choose port.

:- Doug.

This Zeldin book, The Hidden Pleasures of Life, is troubling, does not have a clear message, but does give us lots of points of departure. That perhaps is his message, and mine—points of departure.

:- Doug.

To think toward them
To grow in understanding

:- Doug.

In chains of your making
each person you meet
stands awaiting you to open

:- Doug.

Here a reverent waiting
a quality of attention
to a person not to be cataloged
a continual
intimate
spinning
conversation

:- Doug.

leaning towards one another
each to the other mystery and alive
can we catch a word or meaning?

:- Doug.

You begin to reach depth in conversation when as worth arises, understanding slips out of grasp.

:- Doug.

I would rather hear than listen
But I am learning
To delicately perceive listening

:- Doug.

Every day on these pages I am meeting a new myself. And maybe you.

:- Doug.

Is there anything better for humans than wealth, freedom, love, self-actualization?

:- Doug.

Why do you want a gun? Why that why?

:- Doug.

What does a gun do to you? What happens when a gun owns you? How does it change your thinking about people? Does it change your heart? When you pick up that gun, what do you imagine?

:- Doug.