FootprintsintheWind.com

Blue spruce shadows
Sanctuary for rabbit babies
& maybe for my spirit

:- Doug.

Some see
The wind reaching down
To the grasses
And the grains of earth
As much as it sways the tree
Even reaching you and me

Sometimes I can see
The wind reaching up
Out of the grasses
Out of the grains of earth
Up to sway the tree
Up from G*d
Around even you and me

:- Doug.

Now here, now there
Light rain touches pond
Is this how divinity
Taps our shoulders?
Maybe those are
Taps on my shoulders?

:- Doug.

Your last 30 years
What good will you?

:- Doug.

G*d is the one within whom I live and move and share being.

:- Doug.

Wick wants flame
Heart seeks closeness
We need no convincing
Invite wick and flame
To feel each other’s reach

:- Doug.

Between the leaves
there is an opening
just large enough for my
vision to slip through
beyond, space & colors
fragrance & rhythms open out
dancing within th’infinite you

:- Doug.

I am giving away my life
it’s the only thing I have to give
I hope it’s large enough

:- Doug.

The something large we can give away is conversation: within the family, between patient and physician, between client and lawyer. Conversation informs, conversation reshapes, conversation creates.

:- Doug.

As to dying our own deaths consider how we deny each other our own deaths by chemotherapy continued too long, looking for a cure when healing is what we really want, not giving comfort measures, dying in a violent and noisy and distinctly unrestful environment.

:- Doug.

It is the right thing to do, to start this conversation. Give away something big and important.

:- Doug.

Touch the strings of my genius: I will sing.

:- Doug.

Here is the ethical question I see: Ought we lawyers and doctors, parents and children to tell people of their right to their own death? Ought we with them to open the conversation about their choices, to help them choose?

:- Doug.

What is the work within your work?

:- Doug.

How? The only practical answer is love.

:- Doug.

Our calling is to connect who we are with how we do. How do you do your calling in your particular work?

:- Doug.

Education ought to be about giving us as many as possible of the varied opportunities to discover our gifts, loves, and genius, and the vastness of the in betweens of us and others. With these raw materials we can make a world fresh and ever opening. This is truly leading out.

:- Doug.

To quit your job you don’t have to quit, just get on with your calling within your current setting. No need to quit the ostensible world (of work, expectations, goals)—only to get to work in the real one. Do your calling here, now, in this job. Quit thinking of what you are doing as a job and start seeing the opportunities to do your calling within the life you have. You can have no excuse for not doing your calling.

:- Doug.

Big corporations serve, some say
Supplying human needs and creating jobs
But examine:
What do they say is their purpose?
What do they tell shareholders?
What do they tell employees?
What do they measure?
Souls saved?
Freedoms increased?
Families brought together?
People raised out of poverty?
Wealth distributed
Or accumulated?

:- Doug.

What is the soul string
between money & sports?
See all the ads

Is it both seek dominance,
Taking, winning
I can control what “consumers” do
(They are not people like me
Only objects to make me rich)

Or satisfactions of bodily desires
Stretching muscles &
grabbing a beer and steak?

Or is greed at work
One more win is like unto
Getting this expensive car?

Such intimate connections!
Such lovers!
(Or rather one lover
One user)
For one seeks play
The other self-gratification

:- Doug.

Other might mean alien
Or people like us
Or finally seeing our selves
As we seldom see us but really are
—Sacred—
Holy, holy, holy
Other, other, other

:- Doug.

To live is to fit
To love is to respond
To be real is to be flexible

:- Doug.

When we put names on objects and people, we make them smaller than they are.

:- Doug.