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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 835

We too are words made flesh

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 834

We yet might touch our hope if—
If we stand upon our heart

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 833

You
weave all of this and all of us
so we see it not
We see not the air we walk within
nor feel the threads among us run
We sense the touch upon the strand
a thousand miles away
and dumbly ask
What was that
and dumbly fail to listen
for the response
We are that response
we are the stuff of you
we are the divine the hands and feet
and especially ears and hearts
for our hearts are in our ears

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 832

But it is shared
Our life we own
By larger going larger grown

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 831

Why do we work to change the world?
Is the world whole yet?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 830

The message of advertising is, You are inadequate. The message of truth is, We are able.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 829

Not one snowflake whitens our world, still….

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 828

If we are to make breakthroughs we need to get into the betweens of us. We need to get into situations where we meet and where we can do some good.

That is probably the whole story, yes? Mix it up. Stir in hope for good. Elbow grease. See what you cook up.

Better ingredients. Better People. Better world.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 827

We have the answering
The answering is a question
And a story, telling truth
And a hand opening wide as a heart

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 826

The contrary of war is imagination
The contrary of peace is empty
The contrary of love is fear
The contrary of freedom is security
The contrary of ripe is scatter

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 825

In that time
Possibility emerges
Meeting is beginning

Not the talking
It is the coursing
Meeting is beginning

Tiny, a bird springs to life
Wings for us a way
Meeting is beginning

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 824

Can we live in a larger world
Than ever we have before?
The world that we can think about
Is puny by comparison
To what can happen if we let it
Thinking opens doors to only ordinary things
Bumping’s the trick of the nothing in between
Where living lives & giving gives
& Everything in nothing is
What grows a larger living world

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 823

As wide as any sunset
As tingly as my feet
Such is the work that’s ours to do
As well the G*d we meet

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 822

Raising our voices is not for overcoming but for calling attention, for giving us an opportunity to create something new from the contraries.

Is this what we want—always contraries and a sigh? Can we hope for better? So we raise our voices not so much in opposition to our contraries as in opposition to our resignation to them and our failure to put to work our imaginations.

When we talk with people about things which need changing and we hear in return, “That’s the way it always has been,” “There are those who benefit from the way things are,” “Some will oppose you:” this is when we need to remind ourselves that out of contraries and walls which stand in our path can bloom flowers. The two can work together, both can grow and change shape, both can give birth to innovation, something new and totally unexpected can arise. We can work for that. The only thing that is required is that we work together: good hearts and good heads do make good.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 821

I live in wonder
I live in amazement
This life!
Green fire!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 820

What is my dream? What does it smell like? It smells like peanut butter cookies and turkey stuffing. It tastes salty and sweet all at once, like a chocolate kiss baked onto the top of a pretzel. To the touch it feels like the bark of a sycamore tree—rough and smooth and warm and cold all at once. It looks like a cardinal on the wing coming toward you with a snow covered backdrop, and like the mesmerizing flames of a campfire. What does it sound like? Voices all around speaking softly, sobbing, speaking passionately, loudly, justly, unjustly, too much, too little, finally being heard. Up close the whole is a cacophony, closer still a heart beating, further away a single divine human organism with many organs pulling this way and that but all walking toward the same next.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 819

G*d must be full of wonder, too!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 818

The sword does not stop the sword
only poetry can end wars
only story
only song
We need a new story field
one which reminds us
our hearts are flesh
not gun metal

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 817

Not everything comes our way when we push on it.

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Having little conversations is doing the work. Who knows? A few of them will do larger work, have larger results. Perhaps I will be part of some.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 815

I just saw the crane take to the air
from the far end of the pond
I had not seen him till that moment

I wonder:
What else do we
not see
even when we look
until it moves?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 814

Relax and simply give
what you have to give
where you are
this moment
still seeking to give
the largest effect you can

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 813

We are both fighting as if
one of us will win
and ever stay unchanged
This is delusion: each
and both of us will
change—die—
otherwise or hopefully
in the fight
The sooner, the sooner
It’s not the changing
but resisting changing
that hurts
and hurts us—
and there is sunshine
and spring on the earth beyond

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