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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1806

a bridge a seed a spore
a dream a grandchild a field
a query an opening a freeing
a serendip an ancestor’s
roles

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1805

If we find the questions we cannot answer, well then! We have found a valuable gift, one to leave to the generations.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1804

The smell of baking cookies, the touch of a gentle person, someone lying next to you, the kiss of your dog, the feel of a gentle breeze, beauty in spring flowers or a melting snowflake. At end of life what’s most meaningful is what carries most life—it often revolves around creature comforts. Which of the senses do you most crave?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1803

How do we as a nation move from anger to kindness?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1802

Falcon, storm, or great song?

I want to be, today, a great song. Some days I storm; some days, not too often, I rise a falcon above all that is going on. Today I want to sing, to be sung. Not so much to get my message out—that is for other days—but to hear. To hear the music of the spheres that passes through me. And maybe that which I might bring forth, however forcefully or timidly.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1801

Do some little thing out of doors every day.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1800

The Russians are not seeking to influence our elections but our psyche, our heart, to turn us against one another. A house divided against itself….

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1799

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1799

The great and precious intimate gifts cosmos offers us are Mysteries: Why are we here? Who am I? What is life’s meaning? What can we know? What shall we live? Where might we go? Why are we many?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1798

If we are going to make a world hospitable for the grandchildren, it won’t be through physical constructs like planned cities, technological devices, drugs, even cyborgs. Rather it will be re-designing, or rather re-finding, the human coeur.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1797

The little tree envied the dancing of the little goats and lambs, kittens and puppies. In a wind her mama leaned over and whispered “You may; with the breezes!” And so she danced wildly with each breeze which came along, spinning it lightly, tossing her many many arms all about! What joy! And all the trees around clapped their hands!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1796

If we are taking an indeterminate path through dynamic and creative Spirit, if we are therefore enacting Spirit into the world perhaps even into existence, if life is in the betweens and the betweens have real presence, then what an astonishing possible world have we all!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1795

Can you move away swiftly, leaving hardly a mark?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1794

Tree needs roots as much as leaves
community conflict as much as harmony
humanity death as much as living

so maybe we need the hate-filled bombastic politician
as much as he supposes he does not need kind welcomers

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1793

All-ee all-ee all in free!
Call out from their hiding places
the truth telling writer, the dreamer
of freedom, the lover of hurting children
All heart, all heart, all in, free!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1792

When I was a poet
maybe I am just now
was when the poems
sang their lives through me
they don’t all lift me there
but when they evoke the spray
I go to sea the wild sea

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1791

Our society is divisive because we are thinking in shoulds and oughts. What might entice us to look for integral?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1790

Grandchild you are complex
aspects and facets
places and people
discoverable and unknowable
neuron sinew heart and sky

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1789

Drop your tensions to the groundlet the earth hold them awhileconverse freelywe’re not so elusive after all

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1788

We do not search for G-d, or do not have to, for G-d is with us. Emmanuel. We grow in G-d. In doing that, we grow G-d in some way. G-d is not some perfect schoolteacher using whip and carrot to get us to become still more dependent children; rather G-d is more a father, tickling us off his lap to go be our best selves, to grow us larger, to grow us to be more adult, more creative, more of who we are. In doing so, G-d is delighted, and grows better than a human father whose chest is puffed up over the things his children do. G-d actually grows as we grow.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1787

Play for me.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1786

Quick! Make a mistake! It will move us along! Hope is in the wrongness.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1785

If you have the conversation, you can have the conversation behind it.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1784

After we grow up
After our children grow up
After our grandchildren grow up
We grow
In what direction?

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