FootprintsintheWind.com

He’s intelligent and stupid at the same time
Just like every one of us

:- Doug.

The world is larger than you see.

:- Doug.

Wisdom calls us to longer views. To say forth what is most important in life. That is not one thing: it takes all of us to say it.

This is important stuff.

It is bringing me to life, to deep, to dream the world.

:- Doug.

A useful question is not What is wisdom, but What does it call us to do?

:- Doug.

Wisdom calls for a longer view, seeing more, sharing more, gently, gently, green, green, turning green.

:- Doug.

I want to give today’s attention to the current underlying the world I normally attend.

:- Doug.

“Greater cultural understanding”
Phooey! What a weak notion! What we want is
A rich and vibrant larger world

:- Doug.

You are then to be old
What will you write?
What fruits will you harvest?

:- Doug.

Break and spirit flows.

:- Doug.

You think you know what praise is for
But if you don’t know complaint
Can you be sure?

:- Doug.

We see what praise is for
But are blind to complaint

:- Doug.

We see strange acting animals and plants as divinely ordered
But not so this black man, this gay, this liberal, this homeless and filthy woman
When can we find a heart for the person while disliking the act?

:- Doug.

It’s not easy to love
That’s why there are so many of us

:- Doug.

Individuality ahead of individualism

:- Doug.

Politics is a matter of
How do we come together as one
And still realize our individuality
Another word for this is
Love

:- Doug.

Loosen up
Lighten up
Said Jesus
To finger waggers
To those confusing rules with love

:- Doug.

It is appropriate in aging
to draw inward
upward
outward
to take in the larger sweep

:- Doug.

Love is my north star.

:- Doug.

Love the litmus.

:- Doug.

To sneeze is far more satisfying than to blow.

:- Doug.

How does it look? A first level
How does it feel? A second
Compared to this other? Better learning
How does it mean? Still deeper

:- Doug.

it is because
this wild wind
blows you off center
your voice my soul
shivers

:- Doug.

We belong to conversing
Coursing over the banks we erect
And every participant

:- Doug.