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Footprints in the Windsm # 1236–You do not die at the end

Footprints in the Windsm # 1236

You do not die at the end of your story, but in the course of it.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 31st, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1235–Very early spring

Footprints in the Windsm # 1235

We’ve had a very early spring this time around—it started in November.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1234–Hide what’s important

Footprints in the Windsm # 1234

Hide what’s important. For a spell. Surreptitiousness can promote what’s radical. Remember about hiding your leaven in the dough.

It might be well to plant many seeds in the proper field and give them a season or three to sprout. Then there appears a forest overnight!


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1233–& God stands by

Footprints in the Windsm # 1233

A young man is killed
By evil Fear
& its cousin Hate
& God stands by
As it happens
& God stands by
As we grieve
& God stands by
To act, calling us
To clean up
Our own mess
& God stands by


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 21st, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1232–Imagine conversing with your family….

Footprints in the Windsm # 1232

Imagine conversing with your family about the things brought up in considering your life’s final chapter. Think of the specific people you’d want to talk with. Who would be easiest to talk with? Where would you be? How would you start? How might you get past the difficult parts? Will your family members disagree with you or among themselves? What good might happen in your conversations?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 17th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1231–It matters

Footprints in the Windsm # 1231

End of Life Matters.


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1230–Your life shall be thrown away

Footprints in the Windsm # 1230

We make this world: we have responsibility. We do not determine its outcome, but we affect its direction. We must choose direction; no, there is no must, there is only responsibility for what we do. Do we help things along or hinder? Is there a middle path? Dead weight is hindrance. There is however dread choice: do we mobilize, do we surpass? This then makes it clear there is no middle path: lying on our couch or doing only what our forbears did is not meeting our responsibility: mobilize! Surpass!

And the greater of these is to mobilize. We cannot be assured that we will surpass, but we can assure that we get going—ourselves.

So meet. Meet ourselves. Turn to and meet those next to you. Meet your divinity. Mobilize! Throw your whole life at life!

Mobilize toward what? Toward the music, the poetry, the light and rhythm in each, in all. (Music, poetry, light, rhythm are all synonyms for, pieces of, divinity. Let us remember!)

Assault! Open worlds! Open hearts, eyes, minds! WEave! Sing, Brother, dance, Sister! Mobilize! Make the world life sing!

See the new, take in the wonder, hear the song, then mobilize it! Throw your life away on this, for it shall be thrown away in all events! Throw our life away!


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1229–Your last 3 days?

Footprints in the Windsm # 1229

How would you like to live at the end of life? Your last 3 days?


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1228–Compassion is work, a verb

Footprints in the Windsm # 1228

Compassion is not a quality some people own and others do not. It is a work, something we consciously, rationally choose. We work at developing compassion in us. It waxes and wanes, and we continually dust away what covers it. Compassion ought to be used as verb.


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1227–Let’s elect

Footprints in the Windsm # 1227

Let’s elect us!


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1226–Becoming deeply wholly human

Footprints in the Windsm # 1226

This is what I want to be about, indeed what we are about: being deeply wholly human. Yes, and holy.

This includes the It and the yang, the hard and the driving. It also includes the richness of the Thou and the yin, the shadow-held darkness and ripeness of our poetic souls, the infinity of the betweens and amongs of Us, and the helping heart we each hold pulsing, some openly, some frightened to give it license.

Swim the unfathomable depths.


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1225–Clouds float by against a deep blue

Footprints in the Windsm # 1225

Clouds float by against a deep blue
edges reaching out to one another
collecting together

and we below are busy with
that which busies us
so we do not notice

how without effort and worry
the world does its work
clouds float by against a deep blue


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 22nd, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1224–A call to imagination:

Footprints in the Windsm # 1224

A call to imagination, commandments are: Imagine a town without killing, a neighborhood without thieving or spouse-eyeing. Imagine if we took a day off to meet one another—and the holy—and did not use it to concoct fresh ways of getting our hands in others’ pockets, did not grasp nor protect, but simply trusted & existed & met.


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1223–authorize

Footprints in the Windsm # 1223

Speak the word authorizing.


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1222–I am a little snowflake

Footprints in the Windsm # 1222

I am a little snowflake
Six-winged snowflake
See me fly
I go from cloud to cloud
A-bouncing and a-bumping
What a ride!
Now I’m jumping off the last
Wheeeeee!
See me fly!
And softly crunch
Into my brothers and sisters
Here on the nice comfy-cold earth
We nuzzle and snuggle all close
Soon we become one
And smile at you
And smile at the sun
Then we run away!


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1221–Inside us/moments

Footprints in the Windsm # 1221

Inside us
moments
moments we have never lost
moments to watch clouds sailing
moments to hold hands
eons of moments &
moments of eons
seconds that last a year
decades that flash by in our child’s growing


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1220–other ways to be

Footprints in the Windsm # 1220

other ways to be
things to do than
look forward to the big game on TV
watch the clock till 5:00
involving not yourself in others’ lives
leaving them to their own problems
each to his own
whatever
keeping your nose out
leaving politics to the politicians
and injustices to the reporters
“Holy! Holy! Holy!” sang the Seraphim
Meaning “Other! Other! Other!”


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1219–Want a job?

Footprints in the Windsm # 1219

Want a job, want more jobs, a better economy, a better government? You are in charge.

Go touch people.


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1218–I fell into a hole

Footprints in the Windsm # 1218

I fell into a hole
For a project & on a mission
To get some wrenches
Striding through the door
My forward motion
—Turned straight down
Surprise, lost, unknowing
Words insufficiently strong
For my disorientation
My world, my purpose—disappeared
Scraping shin
Striking ribcage
Pain shooting from here from there
Not even time to ask What’s this?
My attention—wrenched—
In less than a trice
Only later was there time
To recall I’d opened
The hole to shut off the water


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1217–Say what you’re noticing:

Footprints in the Windsm # 1217

Say what you’re noticing. Noticing is the first step toward what’s profound, what’s important, what’s humane.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 25th, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1216–We in America have lost our way

Footprints in the Windsm # 1216

We in America have lost our way. Perhaps we in the whole of the earth. We have lost our heart, our vision. Surely we are perishing. Perishing in a world of hate and division (di-vision?), of people too moderate, of holy wars and physical killings, of genocide and homophobia, of refusing to see the other as our sister. We have no longer the pride in our melting pot, no longer the songs that call us together, no longer any brother-feeling. A choice we do not see, maybe do not want to see, lies before us: we can jump into this endless slough; or we can do the hard work of moving us all to higher ground. If we choose the latter the only way, the only way, is the work of finding and meeting and freeing the higher that is common among us. Therefore we must get out among us. We must meet people and be open to the surprising in us. From here arise new hymns and songs.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 21st, 2012 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1215–There’s a pill for that

Footprints in the Windsm # 1215

Far more than
“There’s an app for that”
Our medico-economic complex teaches
“There’s a pill for that”
“There’s a pill for every that”


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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1214–Divine are the snowflakes/…

Footprints in the Windsm # 1214

Divine are the snowflakes
dancing, floating, flying
divine is each
each faces me and asks
do you see me?


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