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Footprints in the Wind sm # 820

Footprints in the Windsm # 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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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 29th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 819

Footprints in the Windsm # 819

G*d must be full of wonder, too!


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 24th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 818

Footprints in the Windsm # 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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Published in: Conversations, FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 19th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 817

Footprints in the Windsm # 817

Not everything comes our way when we push on it.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 15th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 816

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.

Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 12th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 815

Footprints in the Windsm # 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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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 9th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 814

Footprints in the Windsm # 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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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on December 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 813

Footprints in the Windsm # 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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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on November 28th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 812

Footprints in the Windsm # 812

Just because it’s invisible doesn’t mean it’s not there.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on November 24th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 811

Footprints in the Windsm # 811

We can only measure part of something
All is immeasurable


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on November 17th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 810

Footprints in the Windsm # 810

We cannot be sure of the harvest, but we know that if we do not plant corn we will not get corn.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on November 14th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 809

Footprints in the Windsm # 809

Whomever will listen, speak with. Never mind the Reason why. Reason does not understand all Whys. We must confront one another.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on November 10th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 808

Footprints in the Windsm # 808

It is blessing not to have a retirement account
To keep one’s eyes on what we can do
For many need our help
And much there is to do
To make a world where each and all
Are heard & their gifts received
To seek retirement is self-indulgent


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on November 7th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 807

Footprints in the Windsm # 807

The solution to the world is not to get more money. What will we do when everyone has a Million? Whom will we get to do our bidding? Why ever would they want to help us?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on November 3rd, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 806

Footprints in the Windsm # 806

Complexities of complexities
All of life is complexities
Interwoven interweavings
Yet we hope to untangle
With one mind one finger
Let us try to apply
Complexities to complexities
All of the minds we find
In life all tangled
Many minds many places from which to view
Many fingers some to hold some to pull
Some to figure eleven next moves
Complexities working on complexities
Worth a try it may just work
For us


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 31st, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 805

Footprints in the Windsm # 805

It is about questions and listening and hearing. It is about increasing the world’s store of compassion. It is not about measuring sticks and over-filling bellies. It is about curiosity. It is about meeting.

Others are not other. Diversity is increasing the world’s circulation of imagination.

It is not about accomplishment, but about what swirls—what it swirls from and towards, and how it changes the swirlers. It is about circulation and flow and imagination and compassion and hearing and meeting and engaging. It may not even be possible, but it is necessary. It is about being responsible to the world.

It’s about doing what has to be done because it comes from our essence.

Our essence is each other.

So it is not even about the probability of success. This is what people hint at when they say it is not the destination but the journey. Our essence is each other. Imagination, diversity, curiosity, loving, meeting, doing, engaging, conversing: if there is anything excellent, work on these things.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 27th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 804

Footprints in the Windsm # 804

It may happen for us


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 24th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 803

Awakening compassion is the work. Compassion is a place.

There is no other goal. If we act out our compassion, the world changes. We change.

:- Doug.

Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 20th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 802

Footprints in the Windsm # 802

We feel a need to give compassion
We feel a need to be heard
We feel a need to hear
We feel a need to learn
We feel a need to be part of the larger
When will we come to the end of the dream?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 17th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 801

To get good done invite more we.

:- Doug.

Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 13th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 800

Footprints in the Windsm # 800

What is the most important work in the world, and how can we get on with it?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 10th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 799

Footprints in the Windsm # 799

How can we have a complete picture if we do not include all the parts? Does everyone want a complete picture? Probably not. But when we see the results of a complete picture, then we want it.

Completing the picture completes us.

If we simply seek after our own pocketbook, we will always be seeking to fill something which cannot be filled; to be compassionate and complete takes something else: a giving out, an emptying.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 7th, 2007 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Wind sm # 798

Footprints in the Windsm # 798

I saw a woman trying to run an art center alone—booking the artists for shows, setting up classes, registering people, tending the website, doing press releases, buying food for a monthly pancake breakfast fund raiser, and cleaning the latrines. I saw, with less than 2 weeks notice, 26 people show up to help her re-image and re-draw the art center and take on key functions. People are whom we need.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on October 3rd, 2007 | No Comments »
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