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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 892

True meeting requires spontaneity, actually meeting, willingly accepting who and what is in front of you and meeting the challenge with what arises.

I saw meeting as a way of life, spontaneously seeing what emerges, curious, loving, excitedly and expectantly watching, waiting, clasping, sending heart forth to heart.

This is an easy way, like telling a child a bedtime story (which is the genesis of my thinking), and being alert for escape routes and new places to go, people and animals to meet, life to greet, flying to enjoy. Stay, play! Explore, but even bigger than explore. Beyond explore. Life is to enjoy beyond explore, to play, to see what is possible!

I am saddened when people do not want to come out and play. What can we make? Is that all? Is there more? There is always more! With people there is always more, for we are divinely creative. Yes?

Invite play.

Come out and play! Come and play! Come play! Play!

Here is a bridge, there a cloud, the shade of a tree, the lapping of water, a hole in the ground. Here is story, our story, a larger story. Here are the makings! It is safe. It is home. It is ours to create!

Wow! Life is about playing! Who woulda thunkt?

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Think whimsically!

:- Doug.

Community makes us whole.

:- Doug.

If you are a child of G*d, then you have G*d’s seed planted in you. How does it appear in you? Do you honor it, cultivate it, pay attention?

:- Doug.

Poetry is about experiencing life from the inside. For me, the inside includes other people, conversing, inter-coursing.

Poetry is about the inside and the inter-side.

This insight helps me see that my work is not moving the group along, not moving to any place, but seeing what life there is to be heard, now, what life can be teased out into the open.

What I long for is to be reflective in public, to carry the sensing of these pages into inter-course, to evoke when with others.

It partakes of dream, of doing, of staying with people where they are. I may want to take them deeper, but they are where they are. Mine is only to observe and report and stay.

So stay is strong and profound. Stay with the inter-side. Stay.

:- Doug.