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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2039

I am seeing a joy and beauty in the tragic, and our reaching will not be complete until we include this and call it good.

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Stories jokes and poems
are better than wisdom
know why?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2038

Stories jokes and poems
are better than wisdom
know why?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2037

What the grandchildren need is a good talking with!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2036

In a real way I have been having conversations with my eleventh generation grandchildren: through studying the possibilities of the future, of their lives, and what they might or might not value. These have changed how I think about my relationship with them, and how I might best contribute toward them. I have found I need to be more open to them, allowing them to develop as they see fit. I have found that things I value, like love, peace, and solitude, might not have value to them, and so I need to look to broader, more inclusive values. Ever larger.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2033

If insanity can be inherited from your children, might you inherit sanity from your grandchildren?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2032

The conversation is in finding and receiving the elders of the generations. We can be received, we can receive those we have seen before, we can receive those behind our eyes coming after us. They all can receive us. We can find each other.

So we do not need simultaneous synchronous converse. To grasp the other, to find the other, is sufficient. It is a mystery, it is mystical, yes, and it is within our normal day-to-day ken.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2030

Baby robins in spring-time
maple leaves shimmering
the rhythm of life
is a life-giving thing
is the meaning of life
not even a thing
is a dancing, dancing
ever changing up
shows us all there is
just lose yourself in it
you can never be lost in
The rhythm of life

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2029

Your long range is way too short.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2028

The tracks we make upon our times
are faint, faint
Did our parents take us to Washington
in 1962 or 1963 or 1964?
There are no longer any records
And who can open those computer files
from a decade ago?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2027

Let’s learn to love
our loose ends
muddles bubbling along

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2026

The work of this poetry is, by its roots, making, composing, creating, placing together, and so forming, shaping, as the poet shapes words and works them.

We are forming people, working them, molding, shaping. Not as a big potter, but as an flow of water inside, working slowly, kindly, softly, imperceptibly.

imperceptible
the work of ancestors
how could we have a grand design?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2025

Who does not fit
is also
part of our world

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2024

I expect to die
just not in my lifetime

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2022

Have faith in the vaccines
Now covid cannot find your door
Nor have the strength to carry you to grave

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2021

Before you help others with theirs
. . .
Due to dementia
you wrote in your report
she could not or would not
follow therapy directions
But your covid mask covered your lips
and her hearing aids were broken
So you without ill intent missed reality
and did her an injustice
in life as in therapy
. . .
Take off your own mask first

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2020

Youth puts out to sea to make
Age returns with his catch a skeleton
Creation and forgetting
Two parts, a singular mystery
Human

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2019

Faith in vaccines
Soap your hands
Clarity of science:
Faith, soap, and clarity
That’s the way to live so virus-free
How do I know?
Doc Fauci tells me so!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2018

You get lost in the forest
only because you don’t
want to be there

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2017

Perhaps, just perhaps
as we age
as abilities leave us
as people leave us
some of us could uncover
the meat of us
perhaps, just perhaps
our purpose is to
unlearn
to become hairless
exposed animals
we are at base
perhaps, just perhaps

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2016

No production, please. Let the world turn without you today. Bending the arc perhaps, or just adding the weight of a smile to it.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2015

Do not fear to show your difference
just here, your human worth

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2014

Your unwritten poem
accuses you

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2013

The mirror

We honor so few generations
of ancestors before us
that it limits our
imagination
of the ones coming after us

how distant the echoes we hear
limits
how long ours are heard

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