FootprintsintheWind.com

Answers, questions, reflection.
Earth, air, wind.
Babbling: people, water, birds.
Wallet, hands, spirit.
Night, day, butterfly.

:- Doug.

People turn on the choices we had unknown. Health changes, love engages, new panoramas present. Do we respond as a falcon, a storm, or a great song?

:- Doug.

We elder each other
We’re all we have or need
Choices we had unknown

:- Doug.

None of us consistently sees the larger
So elders in colors and flavors aplenty

:- Doug.

Choice the third
Is not the noble middle
Must be equal in beauty and ruthlessness

:- Doug.

Most of the intensity is between
my eyes
I must take care not to cross them

:- Doug.

Hold one another in the light
Can be done embracing tearfully
Under the same light

:- Doug.

Lightning!
Hug
in that light
Meet
in the storm

:- Doug.

You are part of the being
Of the whole
So you can be wholly there

:- Doug.

Mistakes mix up things for us, show us more possibilities.

:- Doug.

Don’t leave something on the table
Give of your substance freely to another

:- Doug.

This can be said of the elder
This is a human who has become whole
More truly is every day becoming whole
So this one not intruding on the world
Begins for us to break the spell of separation

:- Doug.

It’s not simply a larger view: there’s something larger going on.

:- Doug.

The biggest thing we can do—and it may in doing seem a small thing—is the whole-making thing not yet done.

:- Doug.

Our task is to hallow our
—big our—for we are part—
meetings with the grandchildren’s world

:- doug.

I go to continuing education to lift my eyes, to see a larger view. Yesterday was good.

:- Doug.

Flying is dangerous. Life is dangerous: death its sure end. Fly.

:- Doug.

Am I fighting against something? Adolescent masculinity, I-It, in our culture, yes. I am also working forward to something even beyond androgynous, to deeper, higher, larger.

:- Doug.

Some women are mostly feminine, some men mostly masculine, so…

:- Doug.

Yes I am writing a book
with my moments
on sheets of….

:- Doug.

This is my prayer
& I pray to you
coming through you
& we pray and we pray
to the large you

:- Doug.

Perform your dream on earth for the grandchildren to see, for those entering the gate!

:- Doug.

Eldering is deathly-serious play, one last chance to get life right, a fun mixture of depth, lightness, and light. Hopeful grieving, teaching by hearing, throwing off masks and make-up, coloring outside lines, catching your death by the tail—or tale, dancing freely and feelingly in the thunderstorm, spinning largely!

:- Doug.