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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1660

One thing I am noticing as I grow into an elder is how much ego drives our society—and how useless that is long term. Everywhere it’s thee against me, how much can I get? This dries up the love of humanity, the love of particular living beings. Isn’t—shouldn’t—this be the ground of all we are and do? Do we have heart for others as well as grabbing for me?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1659

Old year and new year so near to one another
Old day and new so much the same
Old me and new so small a step

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1658

Lone leaf on bare branch,
blown: life goes around and through:
fly away; and I

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1657

When we are whole
we hold all gently,
we receive all fully,
within,
we have space to receive
to grow,
we are open.
So if we want to see if we are whole
look first to see if we are empty.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1655

The bright robes
Around the sidereal systems
How do we see
When they are in
Every direction about us?
The Hubble can see
So might we, if

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1651

Search if in his or her core
this one you meet lives out
a decision unsettling

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1650

We are intimately interlaced
More than plugged together
No need to connect up
Intimately we were born
When we die we are not ripped
From the fabric but still part
A family is but pearls appearing
Along the string
The string’s the thing
Some when back there one yarn
Some when up ahead more
This now
More even than genetic or sidereal intimacy
Some grow from the seed of Lincoln,
Buddha, Muhammad, Jesus, Moses
If we could step back far enough, we’d know
We are intimately

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1649

Here’s how it begins: the loss of free speech. Thin skin complaining, ridicule, intimidation. After a stage play an actor addresses the Vice President-elect. It matters not about what. Then the President-elect whines and complains. Then no one big voice or small stands up for the actor’s—and our—free speech.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1648

Just now I sat still and slid into a more contemplative space. There must be a way to go there more often, more reliably. Take a walk on this path and always end up at the edge of the world.

It takes turning toward the precipice. Toward the circumspice. Toward the unknown. Toward not knowing.

It feels like it wants stilling: stilling our accustomed direction, questioning our momentum.

It wants too my opening, my willingness, my softening to the wider to enter me, my allowing me to enter the breeze.

Dropping analysis, even this analysis: blurring, blending, melding….

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1647

Are the recent wide swings in human behavior and politics a symptom of climate change?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1646

Do not be frightened. Fear is the root of the power of the rising leaders: they control by keeping us in fear. Maybe not fear of them, for they want to be seen as saviors; fear of what they fear, for they fear mightily. Us, mainly: they fear us. We must love mightily.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1645

After this, love requires of us more work.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1644

This child
senses the livingness
of all he meets
it fills him with wonder
at the magic of it all
and us at the gleam
in his eyes

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1643

We have no edges
only permeabilities
our only abilities

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1642

less time as we get older
the father the mother
with their work
less than the tots
with blocks and dolls
my grandchildren
became teens
day long visits?
no, now barely
milkshake minutes
my sons even less

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1641

We are beginning to gasp our role in the great extinction.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1640

It’s a leaf-bug
said the Mom to the children
Fascinated we all watched
It crawl over us
Unafraid—it and us
Counting as divine love
Its differentness

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1639

This is sacred work you are doing, accountant. You are making the holy, business owner, broker, politician.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1638

I have faith that, long term, the earth as ecosystem will rid itself of any disease to afflict it. It’s just that we may be the disease.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1637

First there came flooding of the low-lying coastal cities, forcing businesses and people to relocate inland. Then the weather went from extreme to extreme which caused crop failures 7 years running; plant diseases spread; beef and chicken production dropped to half. Malnutrition among humans led to the spread of disease—and wars. Despite all that we were unprepared for “the disease” which wiped out 60% of the world population in just 5 months, 80% in 2 years.

And that was what saved us.

There were not enough of us to sustain our former birth rates which meant a re-thinking of corporate growth philosophy. Besides, we had bodies to bury and ill folks to tend. We saw the face of love—and our real growth. We started anew.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1636

I need this quiet time, with all that seems swirling about and within my head. I do not want to take it, I want to move on. It is needful.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1635

Worlds within worlds
Wheels within wheels
The businesses, the egos,
The children two footed and four,
Finned, winged,
The worms, the beetles, and viruses
Each has a right
And duty
To live
Interlocked, nested, feeding back,
Immersed, embedded, making new harmonies,
Eating and creating waste,
Emerging alive, dying,
Ejected, eliminated if not helping, in that way helping
Food for the whole system
Worlds within worlds
Wheels within wheels

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1634

Wisdom is the sky full of stars knowledge seeks to count.

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