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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1046

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Life as we know it—this is dying, worth grieving. We enter the darkness and cannot know the way through. But we know there is a way through and life (aka G*d) will prevail. Hearing and being heard will prevail. Community and conversation will prevail. The new way will be the way of humanity: touching, feeling, dying, suffering, grieving, weeping, rejoicing, imagining.

:- Doug.

We sit on our sofas and watch the tube (we did not even notice the tube is going away), and care not—we have become numb. It is good to see all the help flowing into areas where there is major media attention on a tragedy, but how many of us grieve for those in Darfur, and the 100s of other tragedies in our neighborhood? Do we get up and plant the community garden? Do we meet our neighbors to improve what is on our own block or the next one over?

:- Doug.

We are in danger of working too much on the economy and getting that we are numb to the life of our brothers, sisters, grandchildren and all our relations.

:- Doug.

What is dying, what is to be grieved?

:- Doug.