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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 881

We are throwing life away—in the cornstalks, in the landfills, in the food grains we are putting into ethanol—and in the way we label and shut down people. It is a matter of scale, not of essential difference: whether it is genocide or refusing to hear another. The latter is only less visible, more subtle, but it removes the good that could come from these people just as effectively.

So if we change our images to growing people and producing more with what we have and throw away, to generating more from less, to increasing what we do with what we have, to the opportunities in front of us, then we generate, then we live, then we love.

Please pass it on.

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Dollars and Numbers stand helpless before groaning.

:- Doug.

Poetry is unanswerable. That’s why we need it.

:- Doug.

It’s important to get community active. Not again.

:- Doug.

Let us be about working with people who see that a new now is possible—at their hands.

:- Doug.

Converse: When we speak and hear, peace is possible, even between nations. When we speak and hear, new is possible, even in a faltering economy. When we speak and hear, life is possible, even here.

:- Doug.