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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1144

A great disintegration is happening in our times. We are so set on chasing the goals of money, as if goals were all there is, all that matters. We are chasing off in a confused mass of different directions, picking coins and bills off the ground, and bumping over people with canes and walkers, people who are working for us, little children and babes in arms, killing old people and children and pet dogs and fish with our oil spilling and radioactive spilling, and we go on thinking this is normal. Is this the norm? Is this what we choose? Is this our standard? Is this our highest and best? Are we capable of becoming human?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1143

We live in prophetic times: there is a grieving and a moving of large mythic proportions. There is a turning and we can turn history aright. A large globe is rolling; a little pebble can turn it. The globe does not need our might to start the rolling. Yet with all our might of head and heart, we must place the pebble. With intelligence, with love, we can amend its course, the course of this world. Where it goes is not known beforehand, nor does one pebble determine its course for all eons. We must be vigilant; we must ever honor, ever reverence life. Blood, sweat, toil, tears and laughter. And then set more pebbles.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1142

Does compassion make time?

It is a question; it turns back and asks itself of us. It asks if the compassionate person will make time, take time, to be compassionate, but it goes into deeper waters by asking if an act of compassion creates time in the now, if it expands our now.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1141

Every person you meet, bow toward inwardly if not outwardly. Seek out, hear, their divinity, their higher nature.

Five times a day hear someone.

Once a day give a gift to a friend, better yet to a stranger.

Give of your substance, not your surplus.

Think Friend, think Us, think Poetically, think Making whole.

More to come, stay tuned.

Stay tuned.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1140

There is something afoot
In this community
Something for which I have no name
A spirit
Of can do
Of anam cara
Of repair of the earthlings
Of bringing about a realm of sacrality
& we can be afoot in it
This something afoot is of G*d

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1139

Compassion is the highest intelligence.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1138

When are we going to get sane?
Oil well gushing, killing us
Nuclear reactor exploding,
Poisoning our babies and land
How much of this is necessary
And how much is hubris—
We can bend nature—so we must?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1137

In your old age
Give your children and grandchildren
The joy of the burden of you

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1135

I aim to make myself softer ever softer.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1134

When I’m 64
was a land
only rumored of
Then

But it’s
pretty
lively
Now

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1133

Explore this mystery
at work in families & life:
the wholeness we can bring
by simply hearing one another

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1132

If meaning in life
is direction of days
we can be here now
for destination is not assured
but
each now we choose our heading

We think the person with Alzheimer’s
slips away from us sadly
but could he, could she
find meaning in a happy day
wholeness in a happy moment
holding your hand?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1131

We have not yet mastered solitude
Much less conversing
Dull we sit our hands and feet twitching
Or toss inanities clear past one another

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1130

We may not be able to touch all the all there is, but we can yet touch it, affect it, and through it affect another part of it. You do not always know what other part, nor when. The voice of the guitar resonates when any string is touched.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1129

Sleeping on a question gives you opportunity to lie down beside it close your mouth let the question do its work let it open your heart and ears so it can speak lowly slowly there floating you might brush

Sleep changes the question from something to work on, to talk at, to something which can act on us—silently, like a stream flowing past our tent. It invites the question from outside to in, to take up residence. It forces our mouths closed and our conscious brains to quiet…allows the rocking of the boat to speak and splash and move the loose pieces around, to gather them in the natural crevices of the hull. Soon we see things that were hidden, feel deep common resonances, hear the quiet tones. Through what the night before seemed all tangles, briers, and directionless, we sense subtle paths.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1128

Quick, get me to a TV show! Since the TV patients who get CPR survive 67% of the time, and those in the hospital only 6.5 to 15%, and the ones on TV recover fully, then if I need CPR, don’t take me to a hospital; get me to the TV station!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1127

The crisis you expected is not the crisis you get.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1126

September 11, 2011—
After 10 years, what learned?
Have we learned to go shopping?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1125

About me ocean
Trees stand in white pacific
I go to shovel

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1124

Something’s at stake
a little thing done
a hurtful or kind word
& the world stumbles & falls
irretrievably
or stands & walks to run

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1123

Remind people of their goodness.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1122

In winter I see all the branches
Now birds in the little maple
A half dozen is all
But they flit about this tree
Some right, some left
Sitting only a second or two
Some down, some up
My thoughts dart around
This legal problem
Which evades my grasp
Do the birds flit
Or the tree?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1121

As I look around this people, I see the salt of the earth. Today, the world about us is icy: together you can start the melting.

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