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Footprints in the Windsm # 973

Footprints in the Windsm # 973

The optimal size of a working group is the number of people who can sit around a common pot of food and dip their hands in.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 972

Footprints in the Windsm # 972

Less are we skin-encased one things
More are we fields of ebbing & flowing living
Living is smelly beauty, powerful vulnerability
& all things humans own & disown
Here’s the important part:
When these fields meet, Where they meet
We form
Ourselves & then the fields shift
To reveal us new again again


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 18th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 971

Footprints in the Windsm # 971

Our wholeness
embraces
the good
the bad
the smelly


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 15th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 970

Footprints in the Windsm # 970

We think the reason to work together is to make the world better, if only for us, when in fact the purpose is to work together.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 11th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 969

Footprints in the Windsm # 969

Touch: a mini embrace


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on July 1st, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 968

Footprints in the Windsm # 968

What kind of world shall we enact? One in which our acts are of love, of bringing acts together, of agencies of life. A world where agents try out ideas with “Of these options, which brings the most living?”

What kind of world shall we enact? A meeting world, where agencies meet agencies, actors actors, and living and loving results.

What kind of world shall we enact?

Why is this news I can use? Because it frees me of old fears and restrictions, allows me to think of new things and daring to do, and people to meet. What kind of world shall we enact? tells us we can choose, that our touch on the gossamer is felt.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 27th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 967

Footprints in the Windsm # 967

We may never have been stars
but together we make constellations


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 24th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 966

Footprints in the Windsm # 966

You are not alive
You have not life
Life is the stream which carries you along
Life has you
For a time and half a time
Then casts you aside
This is the great white hot hope
You bring to the world:
You can bend life
Do you choose?
But in which direction?
We the generations wait
‘Tis not you who converses
Birthing action
Rather you take the actions
Growing out of you when
Conversation births you
Life is Conversation
& each of us is a knot on the thread


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 20th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 965

Footprints in the Windsm # 965

We are caterpillars to the power of butterflies. If we wish.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 17th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 964

Footprints in the Windsm # 964

You kept your smile
While those around traded
Theirs for shouting, anger
But tell me—tell us all—
Did you do it to get
A better replacement ticket
Or for this gate agent
The world to make more human?


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Footprints in the Windsm # 963

Footprints in the Windsm # 963

We have a finely tuned
Detector of BS
Use it all the time
But did you realize
Just as finely tuned
We have a detector of
Humanity rising, rising?


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Published in: Conversations, FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 10th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 962

Footprints in the Windsm # 962

Every tool finds its place
Hugs seek a level of their own
Life it is life it is
Life rolls in & life flows out
Here is life like it is
Bread to share stay a while
Rest your head the world can wait
Every friend brings us home


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 6th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 961

Footprints in the Windsm # 961

Do something without thought of helping yourself.


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Published in: Conversations, FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 960

Footprints in the Windsm # 960

Birdsong in the distance
echoing under the canopy
of the cathedral’d woods

borne on the winds
to our ears
All is well—

life means possibility—
sing with me
let your spirit wing—


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Footprints in the Windsm # 959

Footprints in the Windsm # 959

The redbud seen between the maples
The lake glimpsed where two walls stand near
More than full view a hint can move us


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Footprints in the Windsm # 958

Footprints in the Windsm # 958

What if the trees were alive
& you & I
& between us these shimmering spaces
rocks & roadways & spinning moons—
whom could we be & what could we do?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 957

Footprints in the Windsm # 957

Enlarge conversation
Enlarge humanity


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 20th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 956

Footprints in the Windsm # 956

Can you imagine—
A future alternative to our present?
A world where people not power move our country?
People singing about their work?
Everyday people writing poems about their cities?

Can you see yourself as part of humanity?
Can you picture a group of people—and you as part of it—excited for a project?
People eating the juicy fresh fruits they helped grow locally?
Can you touch another’s skin and heart?

Are you able?
This is where we’re headed
What we’re working toward


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 16th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 955

Footprints in the Windsm # 955

What if humanity meant something different from what it yet has?

What if meaning and purpose and spirit became part of our gathering, bringing us not a better world, but better persons? Not one by one, but together. Together is the trans-human.

The trans-human is forever gathering out of the mist, we are seeing more of what is possible. For us.


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Footprints in the Windsm # 954

Footprints in the Windsm # 954

To round out our work
To hear the work telling us what needs doing
To enter into the space between never knowing where or how we will end up, with the purpose of throwing ourselves fully into its adventure for good
To seek out others of like heart
To let the work tell you what it wants—where the natural turns & breaks & curves are—so you can avoid forcing and cracking its utility and beauty
To be curious about how all this will come out…
To wait out beyond our grasping for immediate results so as to allow something of ourselves—and others’—O and all others’—out to full play, knowing—no, hoping & expecting—something larger will play with us…
To open space for new life, curious & squalling
To open in ourselves a space of mind…
This is the way of life; we can choose


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 9th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 953

Footprints in the Windsm # 953

We are given a back and fingernails that we might know our need for, and our joy at receiving, the aid of another.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 6th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 952

Footprints in the Windsm # 952

Conversing stirs
Imagining,
The Holy

Imagining
Is Emerging
Is Divinity sprouting

Conversing stirs
Imagining,
The Human

More than stirring
Conversing is the essential:
Meeting brings forth
Divinity & Human—This Us


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on May 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 951

Footprints in the Windsm # 951

The frog says to itself: Oh! There is danger coming! The only escape is hyper-space mode. Here I go! Whew! Never know where I will be when I come out of hyper-space, it’s always someplace new and unexpected. But out of range of the danger.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on April 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
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