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Footprints in the Windsm # 1274–Bring as much vision and depth….

Footprints in the Windsm # 1274

Bring as much vision and depth to the conversation as you can muster.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 3rd, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1273–Debate true to life

Footprints in the Windsm # 1273

I’d like to see a “debate” more true to life. Sit the candidates together and have them work with each other to create any way forward. In this we’d see their true mettle—for use with other countries, with business and labor, with politicians, with us.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on September 29th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1272–A pair of little white butterflies

Footprints in the Windsm # 1272

A pair of little white butterflies
In bluest sky, chasing each other
Higher and higher, spiraling me


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on September 26th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1271–Hinting’s enough

Footprints in the Windsm # 1271

We don’t have to say it all, hinting’s enough.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on September 12th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1270–immortality, family style

Footprints in the Windsm # 1270

This is immortality, family style: To start a relation that can never end. When we meet grandchild or grandparent and see into and with their being, when we see the future and the past as one thread—our thread, when we meet another and demonstrate how they may meet in their turn, we have started such a relation. When we share this breath, as insubstantial as it is, we have twisted another strand into the immortal thread of family. This thread neither belongs to us nor can it exist without us.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on September 8th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1269–Early to bed/Up at the crack/…

Footprints in the Windsm # 1269

Early to bed
Up at the crack
Only makes you
One of the pack


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on September 5th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1268–If that is my task

Footprints in the Windsm # 1268

To be as large or as small in this world as I am
—If that is my task
To be of an illimitably large reality, a small but essential part, inseparable, of the weave of flavors
—If that is my task
To share this realization with as few and as many as I am given
—If that is my task
What shape does it take with my family?
What form with my clients & friends?
In what wholeness does it hold my practice?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on September 1st, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1267–Polarity is the problem we

Footprints in the Windsm # 1267

Polarity is the problem we need to tackle in this country, in this world. If we cannot get along together, we will not get along. “If we do not hang together…” is wisdom that applies to our world, today.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on August 26th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1266–If we can’t laugh, what sanity is there?

Footprints in the Windsm # 1266

If we can’t laugh, what sanity is there?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on August 15th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1265–You’ve something good to share!

Footprints in the Windsm # 1265

Say to your friend
—We’re all friends, yes?—
You’ve something good to share!


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on August 8th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1264–Love to the power of love

Footprints in the Windsm # 1264

We pay in this country for getting defined tasks done. We think these tasks move us along. But maybe all they do is turn the wheel within which we are running endlessly. They put food in our stomachs to have it go out in natural course, they entertain us till we need entertaining again. But do we grow as people, as a people? Do we become more loving? Do we engage each other better, deeper, for more good? Do we make ourselves more whole?

This is hard to say, harder to do. Yet is it not imperative that we invent ways to grow more loving, more whole-making, more complete?

This means we grow together. We have explored about as far as we can go the powers of the rugged individual. It is time we come together and see what powers are between and among.

What are these powers but powers of imagination, imagination to the power of imagination, and much more than that, love to the power of love?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 18th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1263–The pain in Spain

Footprints in the Windsm # 1263

The pain in Spain
stays mainly with the plain;
and those who gain
yet gain and gain
and ne’er explain


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 14th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1262–Justice is in danger

Footprints in the Windsm # 1262

Justice is in danger
whenever we seek a profit
Equity, fair play, loving-kindness
are at stake
when we squeeze through a tight opening
across two lanes to our exit
whether or not we hear horns of protest
Our grandchildren suffer every time
we waste water or electricity
or fill the land with something
we could have recycled
By littles, by days, by minutes
Justice is endangered
whenever we think
we are more than others


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 11th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1261–Perfecting our art

Footprints in the Windsm # 1261

I stretch people. This is good…and disorienting. When I present options the task is just begun; I must help them through their now jumbled world to see how to arrange the pieces into a new picture. Often the paper on which we draw is continually moving, giving us little time to perfect our picture, yet there is hope we are perfecting our art. Seeing this, indeed just seeing and hearing, helps us keep our brush moving, our lives stretching…toward one another. This may be the reorienting: toward one another.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 7th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1260–freest –> richest?

Footprints in the Windsm # 1260

When did we transform ourselves from seeking to be the world’s freest nation to its richest?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 4th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1259–individuals entangled

Footprints in the Windsm # 1259

Here is our complexity. We are woven together. Our roots are in this ball of earth, our wavy ends extend up and out and across and entangle with each other. We are individuals and yet there is this entangling going on: we need each other. What is that all about? More importantly, how do we make that work? In little and big ways: in families, in social, religious and work settings: how do we live together? How can we understand these things tugging apart and together at once, and how do we make that life-giving?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 30th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1258–According to plan

Footprints in the Windsm # 1258

When life is going according to plan
Perhaps you’re not paying attention young one
For life wants to throw you a curve ball and see
What can you play and who can you be?
Who and how much larger than now?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 27th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1257–Our differences are invitations.

Footprints in the Windsm # 1257

Our differences are invitations.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 24th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1256–How to move something larger than us:

Footprints in the Windsm # 1256

We move something larger than us not by shouldering through but by dancing with.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 20th, 2012 | No Comments »

Curiosity, connection & choosing:

Footprints in the Windsm # 1255

Curiosity, connection & choosing: Curiosity is accepting the holy invitation. Connection is loving and so paradoxically giving and exercising freedom. And choosing is calling whole, home and hearth—choosing the wayfarer and the wayfarer choosing home. Curiosity, connection & choosing: one good way to live.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 16th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1254–Before we bend the world

Footprints in the Windsm # 1254

Before we bend the world
Our way
Let’s see what shape it’s in


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 13th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1253–Flowers in the night

Footprints in the Windsm # 1253

Mysteries open to me
Flowers in the night
Shadows glimpsed around corners
As I walk toward
They open, they close
My footsteps lay down
New mysteries
All around me
& the world is new each instant
Mysteries open mysteries close
In the sea an eye winking


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 10th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1252–How other brings us close to holy

Footprints in the Windsm # 1252

To some ears “Holy, holy, holy” sounds as “Other, other, other.” Here then is what is holy: that which is most different among us. For in difference we can see possibility and possibility is what divinity is about, what is the only true saving. To see the same people and places with a hundred different pairs of eyes brings us closest to seeing it wholly, brings us closest to the holy.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 2nd, 2012 | No Comments »
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