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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1147

What do we want to do? What do we want? Do we really want to only fill our bellies, to drink beer and watch TV? Or do we want to have some good come from our having lived?

What if we asked our children, What do we want? What if we asked our elders, What do we want? For the seven generations, What is the best we can want?

Do we really want to kill somebody? Do we really want to throw somebody out of our presence? What motivates those kinds of thoughts and is it what makes us feel we are acting out of our best and highest ideals? Which would your mother say? “Beat up someone, honey,” or “Play nice with everyone.” What do we want?

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Care can be seen as something done to an It; Caring is how friends are kind to one another.

:- Doug.

Albert Schweitzer composed a lovely prayer while preschool age: “O, heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace.”

It raises for me the question of whether all things which have breath also sleep, and perhaps vice versa. If creatures from other planets did not have anything like respiration nor sleep, it would be a state utterly incomprehensible to us.

So too incomprehensible for us would be a species that not have communion with others of their kind.

These are all things so interwoven with us that we might rightly see them as defining us.

:- Doug.

Let us be kind people helping kind people.

:- Doug.