FootprintsintheWind.com

Who says conversation has to be simultaneous? Email is not; texts are not. For that matter, in-person conversations have a lot of turn-taking.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2507

He’s the Cranky Old Man In Chief.

Please pass it on.

© c 2025, Learning Works, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: 574/274-5353, or by e-mail to mailto:Footprints AT FootprintsInTheWind.com. Back issues available at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com

How are we the same?

:- Doug.

I won’t tell you what to think. I won’t even pretend to point you to what you might think. You will and can think more and further than I. That’s conversation.

:- Doug.

Repeat some words, turn them.

:- Doug.

I invite you to pause here, ponder, savor, let it work you.

:- Doug.

Make a list of elusive words.

:- Doug.

In the very earliest time
like tomorrow
persons and animals lived together
as kin because they could
by saying it
become one another
so how come we don’t love one another
over generations?

:- Doug.

The sweetness of this planet, O!

:- Doug.

Making memories?
Not as wonderful as
Making moments

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2506

What comes out of a person!
Writers for instance:
Josh, so masterful
Yvonne, so scent-catching
David, burly bearded, so sensitive
James, locking you in
A darkened theater,
Doug, flying so bewildered
Read. Hear
Rivers gushing unguessable
Under mountain ranges

Please pass it on.

© c 2025, Learning Works, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: 574/274-5353, or by e-mail to mailto:Footprints AT FootprintsInTheWind.com. Back issues available at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com

There is no place to get to—where we are is the only place we have—it is a question of questioning what we do to help one another—love one another.

:- Doug.

What is the playground of our being?

:- Doug.

The question is, What is the question—for elders to ask the other mingling elders? What is humanity for?

:- Doug.

Mind is what we do with brain, among other things.

:- Doug.

Our sharing should be based upon having fun together, not transferring our wisdom down the line. We ought if we cannot yet find the fun, then share our ignorance. Laughing at ourselves will carry us along.

:- Doug.

We can experience wonder thro’ our friend, like Rachel Carson thro’ her grand nephew Roger.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2505

May we be kind.

Please pass it on.

© c 2025, Learning Works, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: 574/274-5353, or by e-mail to mailto:Footprints AT FootprintsInTheWind.com. Back issues available at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com

What have you liked to cook?

:- Doug.

Some darlings may be able to stand alone.

:- Doug.

Don’t see; see-saw.

:- Doug.

There’s one more place I want to visit together: the lands of together and of the eleventh generation.

:- Doug.

He speaks through a megaphone and carries a needy stick.

:- Doug.