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To the ends of the generations
to the very last hot chocolate

:- Doug.

Write your poetry
sing your song
call in those around you
they are a throng
up and down generations, conversing

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2502

We have to run the risk that what we say and think and do will be to good effects for the generations. It may just be true in this here and now.

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Our ancestors challenge us—thro’ their writings, thro’ their scriptures, thro’ their words we heard while growing, thro’ our own walks in woods noisily silent, thro’ the clouds and blue and grey skies. What makes us think we cannot—ought not even try—to challenge our ascendants?

:- Doug.

What do the generations draw you to feel, think, remember, imagine? Develop a conversation with the generations, meet them, be of the same substance, exist in your lives and change because of this new relationship. If you can change, if you can change, maybe they can too. Small ways, not even steps.

:- Doug.

We have the ability and the responsibility to make persons. Conversation is a way. We can make persons out of generations. We can stretch our reach.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2501

To converse is to change the form of a person.

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Might we garden for conversations, or converse for gardens?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2500

By writing we discover things and people we didn’t know there were. Possibilities we had not met. So we ought to give conversation a chance if there might be a might be.

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About my word-finding: Do I need to worry? No. What will be will be. Need—what is that? Do I need to hurry? No, no. Go at the rightful possibilities for each thing that comes up. Can the path be affected? If so, how good an idea is that?

:- Doug.

Do mirror neurons work across centuries? Ought they? What if they did?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2499

We can decide the challenges we issue.

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It is useful and beneficial to disturb the soil for the species. What soil, what species?

:- Doug.

We the unknown composers
You the musicians
Playing phrases from ether

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2498

An ancestor is one for whom unknowing going is the name of life. What people will do with what he or she left them cannot be imagined. It is the way of trusting folks unmet. It is saying human nature—life’s nature—can be depended upon. Will it be for good or ill? That simply names the shape of your mind, O ancestor.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2497

Without ears we can have no vision.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2496

What is outward? It is extending acts of love to those we don’t think can return it. But do they not? When I read the work of Tolstoy, Whitman, Rúmí, do I not converse with them, argue with them, carry their being into mine and into my world, returning it to the earth from which it came? That is the circle that conversation describes, yes?635-2025

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Naturally occurring water seeking intelligently wiggly missile: What’s that? A plant’s root.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2495

He tried to BURY us,
But we are SEEDS

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2494

Hear, here in the fire

Life hints and teases
to uncover what
you will do

Does the forest sway,
today,
to the rhythms of the flame?

It is mysteries
the unknowing
that keep us going

Now we light the fire
or carry the brand
handed to us
to hand on to you
but never to see
what you will
do

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Something hovers, a Black Swallowtail to our Cardinal flower.

:- Doug.

Now that we’ve gone this distance together: What can we do? What will we do?

:- Doug.

I write not words and persons, but human-nesses and touches.

:- Doug.