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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1514

There be more in the human heart
Than grabbery
And pushing away:
There resides deep and seldom admitted
The need—the need—
For justice
For others
For binding of wounds
For being heard
For coming closer together
For coming closer to becoming human

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1513

Sometimes we have to stay in the muddle of things till the other side reaches us.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1512

We don’t need to tolerate
We need to thoroughly turn
Others
Ourselves
Our togethers
To grow a new living working
Organism

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1511

People have the right to do bigger things, to collaborate together. The truth is our society’s mold for meetings forecloses most possibilities of working together, exchanging and creating ideas. We take good ideas and work them down to bland and mediocre. We could work them up into action.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1510

Even the weeds
give us
flowers

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1509

Presence is receptive
Or it is absence

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1508

Those who ride the great bulldozers
Do not see
Will not allow
The walking path
Higher
Necessary is conversing
Because unauthorized

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1507

These inklings
not of the past, nor the real
rather of what might be
of our heart
invitations

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1506

We have seasons
We pass through them
Or they pass through us
No matter which
Now we are faced with this
Non ease which will end us
Compel us in snowy cold
To remove our garment of skin and hair
To gather around fires of family and love
To see how we might
Together
Get through another
Season

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1505

Does the campfire watch us, dream us, call us?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1504

Fear greatly. Speak anyway.
Intimacy only guarantees your end.
Open mouth. No other choice.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1503

Embrace the world
as it is
void in metal and clay
makes spoon and bowl
wholeness stands in need
of what is happening
of what is not happening
and might
wholeness and fullness dance
remaining distinct
wholeness contains
what fullness cannot:
emptiness

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1502

The words that float to the surface
Perhaps are the detritus
Leaving those behind I might go deeper
Maybe there is a calling beyond
Ripping
A word beyond words
Naked frightens me

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1501

I do not suspect this apprehends all in its essence, but I do ask if I have made a valid or at least useful metaphor. It seems it has promise.

If I am seeing something useful, then we do not have to own our differences or our egos or our accomplishments, all of which we will one day lay down. But we can see how we fit the flow, we matter, though we have no permanent existence, although we may be eternal too.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1500

The profundity here is the idea that democracy, equality, ordinariness is the main thing: we are here, I am here, to find the extant connections of souls, to converse. The big thing, the cosmic, is the conversation, the flow.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1499

Red, red!
Flying at me!
The cardinal
Lifts away
Just in time

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1498

Yesterday I came face to face with God. It was such a subtle event this meeting I did not recognize it till hours later…and I had thrown it away.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1497

Tree in windstorm
Shouts How wonderful
A shampoo and blow dry!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1496

We do not have the courage to love. We do not know how to find the courage to love.

You work in a nursing home. You are not a manager. You want to be caring to those you are given to help. You want to be kind and gentle and take time with them, listen to them, brush back their hair, treat them as individual persons. You want to speak soothingly to the person who is fighting you as you clean them up and change their diaper.

But, your manager has given you 6 people to care for in the next 25 minutes, and others have said to not let yourself get too close to your patients.

Do we have the courage to speak truth to the power over our paycheck, our very job? Do we have the courage to say to managers that the corporate “philosophy” or “business model” could be more healthy and that it might even help the “bottom line?” Do we have the courage to speak our heart and our love in a culture that fears that kind of talk?

Where do we find this courage?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1495

With sticks and rifles
in vain
we fight battles of mind and heart
we are made
of better

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1494

Hope is so often about results. Being human is not.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1493

This dying might be your now
To do your highest Work
For others, for others
Only in the For
For you

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1492

Now
I don’t matter
I don’t care
I don’t know the difference
Your actions speak

Even in Now
My individuality matters
I am not a thing
Grist for your mill
A task in your list
I am
A person
Who matters
Now

Shift change is not
The Now to wake me
6 am the time for breakfast
I crave and need
My dreams
My Now
My own schedule

Give me my
Now
Am I not still human
Now?
Preserve to me my human
Now

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