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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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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1830

A time for being large, reflective, expansive—let’s create. A time to experience the rapture of living—let’s create. A time to dream together—let’s create.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1829

This morning the word “culmination” came strongly to me: Old age is a time (not the time) of completion, of wholeness and fullness, of a person and of a species. This life has matured, is all it has so far been. It is a world challenge.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1828

In these times we seem to talk past each other, when our talk could swirl among us.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1827

Aging is to eldering moments
as the stars and moon are to
northern lights

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1826

Since we are all flow your hand in the stream changes everything.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1825

The world was never
About us versus them
It’s all us

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1824

The essential sacredness of the elders is most present in the most frail. How is this true?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1823

The wind comes to you
always comes to you
without music, strong, often gentle
you need not go to it
its music is only with
—the old house’s windows
—the barn door creaking, banging
—the inside of a flute sorrowing
with, only with, needs another
comes to you
comes in silence, concert, keening

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1822

Take your elder home: visit the old places, even if you cannot enter. Seek entry risking being turned away: you may be welcomed. For sure it will be a meeting of a new circumstance worth telling.

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