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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1529

We are the age seeing the breakdown of the cheap fix—the one where someone else does it for us, where a command is given and all falls into line, where we can predict the results of what we do, where we have no responsibility but can place blame, where experts and politicians peddle “solutions,” where one problem can be fixed at a time. Instead we each see our responsibility for where we find ourselves, we find our problems are bigger than we think today, we find the necessity to give our time, sweat and absolute engagement. Or we die.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1528

Where does data go to die?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1527

The problems that face us are subtle complex and nuanced. We must be too. They are many and interlaced—not even a comma to separate them. So we need be too. They come together. So must we.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1526

Last night at a stage play, the actor at the drive-in movie said to his girl friend “Nobody’s watching.” A 5-year old girl in the audience stole the show calling out “I am!”

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1525

My art is not poetry
nor even meeting
it is about being at home in the world
inviting us all home
with garden, overlooking a verdant valley
all manner of folks nearby
who do together and matter to one another

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1524

We connect with those who hear us.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1523

I am a collection of cells
hanging on together
cells coming and going
moving through
earth air fire and rain
to music seldom heard
as I move as I breathe
writing the score of life
a song I will not recognize
for a thousand years
or two

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1522

If you’re going to fight global poverty, you need to have global poverty. What’s wrong with this picture? What novel alternative could we invent?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1521

We all pour out our life
In the living of our ordinary days
Memento vivere

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1520

Why are poor people a threat to the wealthy? Why is it bad logic to have everybody share the wealth of the nations, company, community? How is ingenuity curtailed by sharing? Do not people create for the creating that is in them and must be expressed without reference to gold bullion rewards? Do you hug and smile only for cash? Does it have to be that either you or the other has ample or to spare?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1519

Our strength is in our weaknesses
so mine might be in lost words
forgetting what I planned to say
in midst not beyond

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1517

Thinking their public simple (like them?) some people think they lead by stating opposites. This or that, good or bad: binary logic. But life adds third choices, thousands of them, crossing into undreamed territory. Three is not just a different number. Three is of a different quality from two.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1516

We contain
We contain atoms
Are not made of them
Rather they of us
We contain each of us
Are not made of us
Rather us of we
We are made of moving
The ground on which we stand
Is space ceaselessly moving
Moving around little electrons
This ground we call solid
Itself flying around a gassy fire-ball
The body is not made of
Arms legs ears and smile
Rather the other way around
If we but see it
All we see
Is made of the whole
Moving

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1515

Conversation goes beyond one person depositing ideas into another.

It works toward inventing ideas, circulating them, tickling them to breathe. It works toward consciousness—knowing together—creating knowledge together. It works toward action.

But most significantly, it works toward permeability of the edges separating persons.

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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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