Go “ooh”
It starts with letting your hearts go out. Linda, my wife, is better at this than I. I could join her in this. I could go “ooh” at the news.
:- Doug.
Where is the reflection?
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.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2516–Thrown away with the word “Later”
Footprints in the Windsm # 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 Windsm # 2515–Not afraid of AI
Footprints in the Windsm # 2515
We are not so afraid of AI
as of ourselves
unexplored
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Footprints in the Windsm # 2514–Trees do not live so very long
Footprints in the Windsm # 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 Windsm # 2513–good no words
Footprints in the Windsm # 2513
Is it good we don’t have words for some things?
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Mention the color
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.
Threads of grey fabric
Processes are threads
between us
Grey fabric
separates us
connects us
pulls us
to stand
outside
overlapping
in breezes
Flash!
:- Doug.
the infinite entering
Together we help us attend the infinite entering this moment. Continuously.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2512–the life I want
Footprints in the Windsm # 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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