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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1350

Quantum imagination: leaping to the impossible, 6 impossible things before breakfast, leaping beyond the impossible: this is where we live!

Quantum holiness: beyond our conception, within our selves, in the midst of British Petroleum, Bank of America and the county jail come Saturday midnight: where can quantum holiness imagine to reside?

Quantum leapfrogging: a game for this age. A game we play where the stakes are our grandchildren’s lives. Every round we refuse to play closes a possibility for them.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1349

We grow in rest as well as stretching.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1348

A life of conversation looks like this:

Grandchildren one on one and in circles. Family gathering. One on one with the family of humankind, whomever we meet out and about. Inviting something deeper in conferences.

Spirit flowing and ebbing among us. Awash we are in conversing. Leaning in. Sharing to the bone: heart deep and spirit high.

Standing in the face of power and stupidity and cupidity. Speaking the truth of love. The greatest of these, the yet more excellent way.

Helping children and parents care for one another. Helping families care for one another. Families gathering through crisis, becoming stronger, deeper. Families gathering. Working through fear of one another to forgiveness, love, gratitude, wholeness, goodbye.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1347

This is prophetic work, this gathering the people, speaking forth our wholeness together. Prophets gather the beloved community. Prophesy gathering wholeness.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1346

When I water my garden, I am moving water around: from too deep for the plants to benefit, to the top where it percolates through their roots and back again. Flowing and returning like love.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1345

This is an occasion
worth celebrating
this drinking water
over breakfast
together

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1344

One poem, one scrap
of paper can only free
its one butterfly

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1343

We have met the
nuanced, beautiful, stirring,
mysterious, visionary,
compassionate ones:
& they are us!
(Even me? Yes!)

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1342

The rains water, the storms add nitrogen
the symphonies play, the fire engines hurry
This world has worked it out pretty well

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1341

Shh I to me say
Listen to the poetry
Before the words came

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1340

God is in the technology.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1339

the meeting of highways
of life, love & meaning,
of daughters & sons
wives & husbands
mothers & fathers
of inviting & freeing & gathering
this conversation is
—it only takes a little seeing
of who is there in front of you
choosing
to gather in their sparks and yours

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1338

Hear the sound of moaning as the wind leans on your door
And tell me,
Which is moaning—wind or door?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1337

Sometimes
I just have to write
Hi Koo!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1336

Only invite.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1335

A cloudy day
and God is in the grass
among the rain drops
nourishing
us
crawling with the crawlers
swimming with the plankton
lighting easy on our eyes
plinking with the drops
gently on
us

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1334

Softly
Seeing the world
Softly

People
Building, driving, repairing
Cars
To go be with one another
To move the world to compassion for
People

Towers
For electric wires to carry our
Energy

Constructing
Large houses for working for one
Another

Softly

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1333

You can too
Create a story with a child
Give a flower to a business leader
Tell us today’s story of Jean Valjean
Help our many lights shine
You can too

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1332

Invite, invite to loving ways and gentle
Give up, give up your need that they accept
Welcome, welcome the human ways divine

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1331

“Holy, holy, holy” is
“Other, other, other,”
So to each I inwardly say
Holy are you
Intimate are you
Sacred are you

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1330

the stumbling, the inarticulate
holds and displays life
here the holy, the mystery

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1329

The pair of ducks out
side my window are my
meditation teachers

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1328

I’m not in charge of whomever comes, whatever happens, whenever it starts nor when it ends. Why should this be a great revelation?

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