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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 918

Our job as children
Of whatever our age
Is to ever widen our view
Of our world
Taking in more & more
Calling it Me

Please pass it on.

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I like these words: fathomless, mystery, meaning, purpose, plumb, boundless, compassion, universe-capable, jewels, flowers, complex, wondrous.

:- Doug.

People are purses: gold and silver and rubies and diamonds flashing inside, and snapped shut—no, sewn shut! We can only open each other. The joke about arms splinted in Heaven and Hell is really a joke about life hear and now—if we don’t hear, we don’t know it is now. And so we have chosen to live in Hell when we could party.

:- Doug.

People are the untapped unwrapped potential of the universe. People are capable of the universe. But we keep ourselves under the grey cloth. Poke holes! Poke holes! See the rainbow lights! They are coming from you! They are coming from us! They are you! They are us! O the places we can still go! Not in the future, but Now! Here!

You are capable of the universe! Acting together, we can create a better peace, feeding, sheltering, caring, loving, a larger humanity. This is our purpose. This is our calling. This is our world in our hands. Today.

Our world in our hands. Our world is in our hands. Let us poke holes and peek. Let us lift our voices and use our bodies for truth, for beauty, for good.

:- Doug.

Blooms and blossoms—people are
Blooms and blossoms—barely hidden
Blooms and blossoms—in each person
Blooms and blossoms—nipped in the bud
Blooms and blossoms—eaten or rotten
Blooms and blossoms—worm, disease and nipping we do not need
Blooms and blossoms—flowers we can have
Blooms and blossoms—see, really see…and smile
Blooms and blossoms—hear, attend, hear
Blooms and blossoms—gather us

:- Doug.