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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 964

You kept your smile
While those around traded
Theirs for shouting, anger
But tell me—tell us all—
Did you do it to get
A better replacement ticket
Or for this gate agent
The world to make more human?

Please pass it on.

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The affront of open space to the world of command and control is that it is not separate: not separate from the world; not separate from the people. It says the people matter—what they think and do. It says the people, not just the commanders, have the best ways forward, will in fact, if we let them, carry us through. This offends those who have the answer and who fear other opinions.

:- Doug.

Life will live
—This it gives
—This it must have

:- Doug.

I’m exploring a different playground.

:- Doug.

The meeting of the leaky edges
Here between we discover our
Edges are not so brick & mortar
Even brick & mortar accepts the rains
& and lets them out again
Yet flesh is leaky still
& Spirit more so
Who are you & who am I
& who are we?
Leaky edges meeting become
Leaky wholes

We leak back and forth with
World on the right
Divinity on the left
& each through our leaking becomes
The other
And more

Our tears leak us

:- Doug.

People who make up the differences between two others: peacemakers.

:- Doug.