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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1418

You can keep grinding away at your nose till finally your brain is worn away.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1417

Complicit in the event
The audience is
If all of us just sit here
Take it, do nothing
—Nothing’s what we get

If people stand up
Talk back,
Go and do
—What if we expect that?
Invite that?
Insist on it?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1416

But there is a bigger question here.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1415

“Poetical interrogation”
Write Prigogine and Stengers
The maker questions:
Nature, self,
All humanity, all
Questions create:
Us, me, all
I must be poet
I must question
If I question,
I can never grow up!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1414

O save us from our certainties
They are the seeds of
Our warrings with each other

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1413

Or live the days as they present to you
Or go to the big city to do the larger?
Choose
Have you a choice more real and trying?
Stay at your loom, love your loves
Consciously take in hand the daily
To meet the transcendent
Silver threads, weaving, weaving
For the fight have a skein and courage by
The fabric resists but needs
The larger, larger thing

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1412

Remember to breathe
It’s your heart that matters
Not the administrivia

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1411

There will be those who come after me
who are greater than me
there is no doubt of this

they stand on my shoulders
I provide lift
a whisper
a not yet clear vision
demanding a decision
I do not know I demand

these hold hands with me
already I feel their hands in mine, feel their resolve
and they give me resolve

I say to you among them
great as you are, little or much as you know your greatness
there will be those who come after you
who will be greater than you
there is no doubt of this

you do not have to work so feverishly to get it all done in your lifetime
you do have to work diligently
so they will catch fire

this is a bigger responsibility

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1410

Once you know the way
it’s no longer the way

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1409

We grow in humanness
as we age
and that only by way of
being softened
To become wise is to become vulnerable
the older we get the more drops away
life takes
this is the school of aging
and the work of each of us aging
the more we lose the more we grow
to accept vulnerability is the path
The living have work to do
right up to the very last breath

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1408

The powers that be—are we.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1407

Tears, sadness, loss
Tell me, oh tell me:
What do they do to you?
How do they bring us close
To our elemental togetherness?
I cajole, I plead with you
What is the elusive
Fundamental
Joy to which they open,
A valley in the morning
sun and dew?
I leave a stillness open before you
Tell me your sadness
To remind me of mine
And us of one fleeting
Eternal
Joy

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1406

Frying pans!
Boiling pots!
Let’s have
some slow cooker
conversation

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1405

What kind of dreams would you, Dreamer, dream if the world would dream your dreams?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1404

Not chemistry
Not magic
Together deeper, farther, more

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1403

The silence is part of the prayer

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1402

Declaring possibility creates it.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1401

The Olympics are an opportunity, once every 4 years, to gather our very best and turn 90% of them into losers.

We humans are not about being better than others but being with.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1400

Butterflies work
with the flowers
to change things
don’t you?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1399

Grief and Imagination
The handles
At the still point
For the turning

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1398

Don’t choose to do a big thing: that takes too long. Choose and do a small thing in a major way. Major acts are those that evoke—or are evoked by—a felt change in awareness.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1397

The very center
of humanity
—like that of the universe—
is here in the midst of us
right here,
that which we work upon:

Seek no larger shore
do the daily,
knowing

Do at the still point
of humanity’s turning

More and more
this
is the still point
of the turning
we know instantly
the news of the day
some time soon
within the instant

More: we want to know
Why?
We need to
know each other
intimately
vulnerably
from the inside

So we
are turning
every place

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1396

In life you don’t know what you’re signing up for. Sign up anyway.

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