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All to ourselves
we have all generations
and they us

:- Doug.

This reflection is not inside the glass nor outside. Where then?

Conversation is a looking glass
showing us free of our isolation
and its loads to carry
without taking from us
our quirks runny nose and scar

We too are mirrors one to the other. As these three mirrors turn, as images play and blend, this theater of relativity, it begins to dawn, plays out for us our malleability in the face of the grandchildren of our grandchildren, the next of the next—and theirs.

:- Doug.

In your conversation
do you sleep
or do you dream?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2516

It’s not that I realize time is short and I need to cram in more trips and more hot chocolates. I do realize the value of moments lost or thrown away with the word, “Later.” I do live the life I want and it is filled richly with persons. Every person I chance upon is important to me and I am curious. They might just be a person with whom I can find our one face—and let’s act upon it when the opportunity shows up.

In the same way, I want to finish the book in the next three weeks, my “high risk period,” my “high rich period.”

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2515

We are not so afraid of AI
as of ourselves
unexplored

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2514

Trees do not live so very long
not so long a’ tall
if one counts their day
as one trip around old Sol’
their sleep time when earth leans away
their work day when it leans in
and we the little
two-legged ants
scurrying about
oblivious
because trees do not snore!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2513

Is it good we don’t have words for some things?

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We are no longer magnet—we are pulled away—not repulsed.

:- Doug.

If the ancients did not mention the color blue maybe our mention of the color of our veils will give to those next after next.

:- Doug.

Processes are threads
between us
Grey fabric
separates us
connects us
pulls us
to stand
outside
overlapping
in breezes
Flash!

:- Doug.

We enter the Great Timeless.

:- Doug.

Ecstasy

Leaning in to one another
Leaning out together
Leaning toward whole

:- Doug.

More precious and with looser grasp.

:- Doug.

Together we help us attend the infinite entering this moment. Continuously.

:- Doug.

We confuse the doing for the accomplishment. Doing is the greater worth.

:- Doug.

Together we face into the wind.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2512

I realized that I am living the life I want to be living. I have a loving family, all good persons. I am doing the work I want to be doing. I am conversing with and meeting people and doing a few things for others directly, as well as this large thing, The Last Hot Chocolate, for my human family writ large.

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I do not care if I die. And I want that the work gets stirred.

:- Doug.

Dark is the same every-
where embracing you with all
in transparency

:- Doug.

Dark gestates
Fallow fecundates
Nothing heals

:- Doug.

From our communal dark—our vanishing smallness and ineffectuality—arises our concern for generativity.

:- Doug.

What requires dark? Pregnancy, roots, seeds, chicks in eggs, you. What must be left alone? And when does light interfere? When do we know better? When is it better to know less?

:- Doug.

We can be blinded by light
We can see other in dark

:- Doug.