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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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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1327

In those days
We feel most flat
Lacking being
Start conversing
For each person
Adds to us
A dimension

Each a new dimension
But do we allow
Only more flatness
Or that which runs across
Our grain
Or which produces a new & different
Light note?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1326

We’re here to do the good we can while we can—& part of the good we do is accepting the good others do for us.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1325

Everything is sacred
Everyone is holy
Bow, befriend, remove your shoes

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1324

O beautiful day, to you, for you, I am thankful. The seeds on the little maple are deep burnt orange, starting to hang long, and the green of the leaves is showing. The little pear relatives have white puffy flowers all over. Spring is showing off!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1323

The world is nuanced
neither oo nor ah
late nor soon
unity nor diversity
more and combinations of more
suggesting suggestive
open opened opening

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1322

We have come a long way
We have come here to play
Maybe we are not strong enough,
wise enough, good enough
But we shall do & maybe we shall see

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1321

We quickly uncovered the Boston Marathon bombers. Yes, we: law enforcement people used all the cameras that abound and the memories of people and the alertness of people to find these perpetrators. The ending was in violence and bloodshed, but those might some day be influenced as well by inclusiveness. All of us together have gotten us this far; all of us together can take us further.

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