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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1199

Weeding another’s garden
A task I now own
I’d hoped but not so easily done
More work than I thought
Why’d they give me this job?
I have other things to do
The weeds among the flowers
The vegetables need picking
Where to start? Where to start?
I see a lone flower, what’s that wet
On my cheek?
I pull out weeds and and a flower too
I grow angry at the weeds—no, at you
I sit here in the midst of all this and
Realize I have been sitting here for
Minutes? Hours? Years of memory
Have taken over
Probate is weeding a garden

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There is goodness and evil in the human animal. To say that those are outside us is to put us in puppet mode. To say they are both innate is to give us responsibility to choose and to grow.

Responsibility to grow.

We surely have that.

That perhaps is our highest calling: To grow, to become better than we are, more than we are: this is the human’s choice.

:- Doug.

Be here now
Is good; better is
Be together now

:- Doug.