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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 966

You are not alive
You have not life
Life is the stream which carries you along
Life has you
For a time and half a time
Then casts you aside
This is the great white hot hope
You bring to the world:
You can bend life
Do you choose?
But in which direction?
We the generations wait
‘Tis not you who converses
Birthing action
Rather you take the actions
Growing out of you when
Conversation births you
Life is Conversation
& each of us is a knot on the thread

Please pass it on.

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When we are sitting in a circle of friends and we are working intently on something that matters to us, we feel alive, yes? When we are sitting in a lecture and the subject bores us, we feel a little less human, true? Most of us have experienced this. It is also evidence of something at work, the basis of something as important as life itself.

:- Doug.

Humanity rising
Or falling
Which do we want?
Is it that which we
Chose but 5 minutes ago?
Can we do better this time?
Can we invite
Humanity rising?

:- Doug.

The person who will not take part in living is no better than the person who commits suicide.

:- Doug.

G*d is empty: the still small whisper, the breeze, the babe in a feeding trough, the vibrant man consenting to his own execution. This is living, this is G*d: to enter in, to meet. Our job then is to meet. We must converse. We must take the world into our own hands to mold, to invite, to meet. If we turn away from the world and lose ourselves in drugs, video games, books, the pursuit of money or fame, we have done no other than suicide. We have thrown away living.

But if we meet living, we breed it. We breed conversation; we breed living.

The person who meets living, who converses with living on purpose, is the one who creates worlds, makes living anew.

:- Doug.

To nurture living, engage. Meet it.

:- Doug.