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Cherish humanity—all of humanity—without exceptions.

:- Doug.

Stamp out nouns
To verb

:- Doug.

When you leave
is when conversing
starts

:- Doug.

Have a human day!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2435

I cannot think a thought (try as I do), for once it is a thought it is dead and no more a think; and when it is a think it is not yet thought nor a thing of any sort you’ve ever thought.

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There is a man I know of
And observe nearly every day
He shows the world an angry face

:- Doug.

What are you discovering?

:- Doug.

The fear we have of conversation is fear of ourselves.

:- Doug.

Who says “He makes me laugh?” Is it almost always a positive?

:- Doug.

The subtext for every writer is the reader.

:- Doug.

A director—you!—holds up two thumbs and two fingers, framing a limited precinct for infinite creating—here we are human-ing! We have not been—and the world has not seen—this playing before. But now it can!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2434

“Safety, Safety”
the absent children cry
“placing” Mom, Dad,
in the shiny big “home”
promising three squares
and a cot, choice of
bingo, drum cardio, and
bus rides every week.
“Safety, Safety” they cry
as they go,
go away,
to their little lives half
way across the continent.
“Safety, Safety”
till they visit three
times a year. Never
mind they never
knew
Mom’s dream to travel
to visit grand children
and grand canyons. Never
mind Dad at ninety wants
to sky dive, let his body
fly!
“Safety, Safety”
For they know better
for they know nothing
of life alive
yet.

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A conversation is a motion expecting a response or at least inviting or permitting. What will I respond to your soul?

:- Doug.

Is that all? Is it enough? Is it more than I can imagine?

:- Doug.

My friend visits my imagination.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2433

Shh. Quiet in your confusion. Be bewildered. Kindness will act through you.

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Breakthroughs everyday
Are small, slippery
Expect some to spit in your face

:- Doug.

The pond is large or small
boring or filled with
adventures and discoveries
depending upon the
size of the fish and
the speed of each fish.
What size is your day?

Imagination is the speed of this human. Speed in this person relates to heavens and realms opened. You don’t know what speed is. It has nothing to do with the speed of the fish, but opening the doors of imagination.

:- Doug.

In your conversation
Be all there.

:- Doug.

To write well, I need to seek myself in my writing.

:- Doug.

Depression is a failure of imagination.
Despairing is a failure of imagination.
War is a failure of imagination.
Settling, seeing yourself stuck are too.
I think you may have unplugged yours.

:- Doug.

The substance of the person is her imagination.

:- Doug.

What we have here is a conversation of imaginations!

:- Doug.