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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 822

Raising our voices is not for overcoming but for calling attention, for giving us an opportunity to create something new from the contraries.

Is this what we want—always contraries and a sigh? Can we hope for better? So we raise our voices not so much in opposition to our contraries as in opposition to our resignation to them and our failure to put to work our imaginations.

When we talk with people about things which need changing and we hear in return, “That’s the way it always has been,” “There are those who benefit from the way things are,” “Some will oppose you:” this is when we need to remind ourselves that out of contraries and walls which stand in our path can bloom flowers. The two can work together, both can grow and change shape, both can give birth to innovation, something new and totally unexpected can arise. We can work for that. The only thing that is required is that we work together: good hearts and good heads do make good.

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There is so much more to this world
Than we know in our common hours
We need more of us
To get enough of us
Into this, our uncommon hour

:- Doug.

What needs doing? Who will do it? What are we waiting for?

:- Doug.

Poetry is for work
Conversation is for work
The poet expects the people to work

:- Doug.

It is our job as prophets to remind our people—they are all our people—that we can grow good out of the condition in which we find ourselves. Acceptance is not an option when the condition is oppression of or abdication by the people. Our words: Remember our power—the power of vision. The time is ripe.

:- Doug.