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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 843

My reign is not of this world—
Your world of power over
Differentiating
Excluding and dominating
It is of community
Inviting and hearing
Gathering and sharing
There is more power when all have it
More to share when more share
More world when we see it

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 842

A Possigiggle is a measure of work-connection. More possigiggles, more is likely to get done.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 841

We are the change-makers in whom we can believe.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 840

When we meet another, truly meet, we change the all there is. It is not in little ways but in big ways, for we open the possibility of other meeting and other change and on.

Meeting—conversation—is how we evolve the world. It may not be the direction we want, but it always works. It always makes the change. It goes where it goes and comes out where it comes out, without our control, but with our part used and made effective.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 839

The story never told…
Its possessor makes possessed
Yet when rehearsed sets free
Its holder & a whole community
The story told & told again
Sparks our hope, sets us to working

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 838

Meeting takes you me between. I must bring me. It seems to me this is a problem many people share with me: fear of bringing me, and lack of experience and imagination in doing so.

That’s why we want to have speakers and experts and authors: to seed our imagination. Little do we know that the person beside us could do that wonder for us.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 837

How do you make a difference?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 836

Every now and again the world gets whitewashed
We pause and reflect—beauty—truth—goodness
Then we plow it out of our way
It is good to reflect—& pause

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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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