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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1584

It’s an old saying
I just made up

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1583

When we know ourselves as nodes and creatures of the conversation, then we see our joie de vivre comes from connecting the conversation to more of itself.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1582

I bow to the wind
I bow to the snow flakes
I bow to critters great and small
I bow to trees and wheat and stars
I bow to grandparents
I bow to grandchildren
I bow to you I bow to you

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1581

Dead gunmen give no intell. Can we learn from the comic books? Are guns our only weapons? Throw a net over them. Brain-fog them with chemicals. Flash-bangs like the Boston Marathon bomber got. Walk away from the car chase and let drones track them. If we have them alive we might find out something useful from interrogation. Deny them their suicide by cop. Keep cops out of harm’s way. Rethink this thing. The bad guys can think of only the killings; we can think of many alternative endings. Dead bad guys cannot hurt us anymore. Nor can they help us.

So we got our man. And a dead end. Until we can plug dead men’s brains into a computer and find out what we need to know, killing seems the way to draw down over the event the dark of night. Until the next one.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1580

Without rhythm or
rhyme lines prime evoke divine
hai for you too ku?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1579

A grocery sack full of photos
my parents left
who are these people?
This picture was important—why?
No longer any one to ask
I threw out the bag
and grieve

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1578

Sometimes my mind is jumpy
Sometimes it settles
So?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1577

If you want to learn something
you must go to the place called
Not knowing
If you want to do something
you must go to the place called
Not doing
If it is to be weighty

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1576

We seldom realized we were empowered to be compassionate and creative.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1575

The issue for me is touching off the Rob-like courage to speak up for the truth: the deeps and the larger, the void, the vastness, the abyss; and touching off during daily normal conversations.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1574

So much depends upon
Our ears hearing
Our mouths saying forth

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1573

To ask “How do I live the call in my everyday life” is to make your everyday life primary over your call. And yet Abraham packed up all his wealth and loves to take with him on his journey. We do carry with us who we are and those who have met us. Our love gives us duties to them, the greatest of which is to be who we are. The answer might be, Set off with love.

Actually, I now think the answer might be in reversing the priorities, to ask instead, “How do I bring my daily life into my call?” Or more completely, “How do I bring my daily life into relationship with you and those in my life?”

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1572

Give others tips and quotes they are likely to share—and in this way extend your reach.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1571

This is a holy time. Unrest in me. Few things to do and many things to do. Walk around the corner—you cannot see around. There is good to let in, good to create, good to stir. This is holy time.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1570

What good’s a language if you cannot make up words for it?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1569

Why I have not been getting the message across: I have been trying to make it ordinary, make it make sense, make it fit within the everyday. Although it is everyday, and necessary to life, it is not the essential element, not ordinary. Yet that is what we all want: a non ordinary existence, a non ordinary standing forth.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1568

Why does the body slow down?
To give reflection time to catch up
To run ahead

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1567

This morning I read about the White Tulip movement in Estonia: bringing people together who have come to distrust one another, by placing white tulips in public places as a show of respect, dignity and peace for one another. The writer said We may have had different histories but we have the same future.

And I wondered: Do we have a common future? That is the question given to us for this hour. If we decide No, what sadness! We move toward hate and insulation and shriveling. If we decide Yes, then all possibility opens!

The question is one asked of us in our country too: Do we have a shared future, or will we shatter? Will we turn our backs on one another, on whom we could have been?

Do we choose to have a common future?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1566

What good things are going on in our community? What is going well?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1565

Spacious is the fresh year.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1564

In these culminating years we get to come back round and see big chunks of our lives for the first time larger.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1563

What would you do even if you knew you would fail?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1562

Open the playfulness jars
spirit will show up
open any jar

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