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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1856

With whom else might we converse, we who converse across the generations? What are the questions about which to converse? What questions would lead us to a higher humanity?

What is higher humanity? What are our highest aspects? Who are our exemplars and why do we esteem them? Lincoln, Gandhi, Jesus, Gautama, Tubman for examples. They showed us the best in ourselves. What best? Caring. Kindness. Big-heartedness. Strength in these. Vulnerability and humanness. Speaking to all of us….

So perhaps we can write biographies of human people. Or simply write why we revere these people. Pebbles in the forest, a trail to follow.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1855

We are not about finding better ways to age: rather better ways to be human.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1854

It matters that we go find out what specific things matter to each of us. It matters we draw out of our essence, it matters we reflect, it matters we commit. It matters that we mean and touch something larger than ourselves.

It matters that we open doors of study and perception, and see is only part of it. It matters we grow. It matters we look to see. It matters we listen to hear. It matters we open our spirits to one another, to the generations. It matters that the world becomes larger, more diverse, more loving. It matters we converse.

It matters that we don’t all reach for the same thing.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1853

So we have captured the shooters in the last two mass shootings. Here is opportunity: to learn from them the motivators for such actions, to see what we can do to make their world more calm and less hostile to them. This would do the same for the rest of us.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1852

Why should you care about the future of the world, the future for our grandchildren? But you do. If you are an elder. That’s one way you know.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1851

You can measure the quality of your eldering by the intensity of your astonishment. Grandchildren should leave you thunderstruck! Wisdom is unknowing. Not not knowing, but letting loose of what you knew to swim in mystery. Outcomes uncertain: venture!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1849

In front of you is a dangerous interface between the daily and the sacred. Will you work to bring life creating forces to community?

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That there is a consensus reality in a world of people and butterflies each enacting their own worlds is to be expected: each puts an edge to the free flights of the next. So we are unlikely to notice the green of the sky, the blue of the grass, and South Bend stopping at this train. Yet: this infinite feedback gives forth infinite holes in the fence.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1847

Not knowing is profound. Not knowing is respect for something higher. Not knowing is respect for something other.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1846

I see G as bigger, more real, more participatory than do the magicians.

A man stole some aspirin. A police officer gave chase. A struggle and shots. The man is paralyzed. Does G punish a small infraction so out of proportion? Does G have bigger things in store with the paraplegia? Is G more entwined in all of it? Experiencing the pain, the loss of future, the gain of future, feeling the child-pedestrian’s injuries? Is G a deeper quality? Is G the unfolding of the whole scenario? Is G the everyday? The entwining? The whole unfolding? The helping, the running, the speeding off, the trigger pulls, the siren of the ambulance? Ordinary? The daily, the daily, the daily?

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Speak to your core
and you’ll speak to others

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1844

Return to connection
shaped by the stream
of grandchildren
your emptiness a
resonance chamber
perchance to hear the song
our streaming makes return

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1843

Words sing for us humans
Deeper is music
Deeper deeper hearing

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1841

One person cannot change the world. The world’s course changes but slowly. These are good things. You can work small changes and gentle. Your hand in the water off your edge of the boat has steering effect.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1840

People easily derail me. I need to find a way to stay in the deeper now. To start to spiral to the deeper and higher, ignoring the track detours, but still acknowledging them and ask their help going deeper and higher.

This is a skill I have not yet developed, and one I want to try. This is the band members making music using each other’s instruments. The music went some unexpectedly deep places.

So the band members had to get over feeling uncomfortable. They had to accept their not knowing. They had to keep going forward.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1839

What inhabits your heart
has far more power
than your timidity supposes

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1837

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1837

When will compassion rise?
When will gentle own the future?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1836

Will you gather your life whole?
Will you dance
Your joys, bewilderments,
Secrets, marvels, tears, and intimacies
Will you dance for us to almost know?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1835

Give your grandchild a book and a name. A book to open a new way; a name to which to add stature.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1834

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1834

As an elder changes the meaning of the grandparent-grandchild relation, and changes the intention of at least one party, the world has already shifted. It seems a small change. Maybe it is profound. The new meaning is we are about making the world more hospitable for the grandchildren; the new intention is to act some on the new meaning each day.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1833

Put your memories into poetry
—you might just mean anew

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1832

To be receptivity
to discover
to learn
to see entireties
to seek wholeness and integration
to speak by chance some hidden truth
to feel the interactions of a larger system
to be creative readiness
to receive the epiphanic moment
is to open this age
to grace

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1831

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1831

On cooking fish:
You can boil ’em,
fry ’em,
bake ’em,
broil ’em;
you gotta cut ’em and gut ’em;
you need to catch ’em first and
let the ones who are not ready grow;
you bread ’em
or spice ’em;
you eat ’em and say yum;
and then they go through the system and
to the waters and
to the air and
to the sun and
become something else all over again.
Your spirit is a fish.

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