FootprintsintheWind.com

Fully used up
When I die he said
Many said similar
There must be this thrust
Against something
We all face
Can overcome

:- Doug.

Act. Create. Only this.

:- Doug.

Have an idea to cut down on the number of tax forms? There’s a form for that….

:- Doug.

Sometimes we learn more through our ears than through our mouth.

:- Doug.

Changes?
Maybe not…
Everything

:- Doug.

Splashes among the grey
When we sit
Watching

:- Doug.

Two days ago this tree shimmered
Today it is still
Yesterday brilliant deep
Blue were our skies
Today mottled with clouds
Change and quick
Our lives

:- Doug.

Try and talk without using your “but.”

:- Doug.

We are people sensors
Put one of us near
We pick up invisible signals
How do we feel
In this one’s presence?

:- Doug.

Best teachers
May make us work
For our lesson

:- Doug.

I believe it’s not necessary to believe any thing about God.

:- Doug.

I’ve been aware for awhile now that the state licenses blind people to drive. I never realized how many: sitting here with the power out I watch people drive through the intersection obviously not seeing the stop signs, nor the lights out.

:- Doug.

Create! Create!
The task of life
Our task to accept, reject
What have you
Lately?

:- Doug.

Everything that is alive moves
Not everything the moves is alive
Or is it?

:- Doug.

To feel poor takes much time.

:- Doug.

I observe
I write
And then I ponder

:- Doug.

The storm does not care
whether it’s snow or rain
does not choose
it meets
the cold or warm
it meets other air
together blowing dancing

:- Doug.

over balance seek equanimity
it is longer
you will last
you will go anywhere
surer-footed

:- Doug.

This work might change
A life or two
So I must publish

:- Doug.

I ask your kindness.

:- Doug.

Poetry is for me a practice.

:- Doug.

Hear the tree: wind makes us shimmer.

:- Doug.

This is going to be a good day!

:- Doug.