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Surprise there is
& surprise I have hated
Now I find surprise is the stuff of life

Surprise there ever was
Life abhors monotony
Life avoids steadiness

Surprise there must be
Life I am surprised to hear
Demands I give up my old hate
Turn to life
To surprise leapt

:- Doug.

Each dance partner
Swings the other
Each necessary
Both necessary
Where is dancing?

And so they are
—and are not—
the dance

:- Doug.

We have interdependence (interplay), and interplay of interdependence, in that relation depends on units and units depend on relation. The whole is moving, dancing: living, amonging, birthing and dying: and so living on in the amonging and the birthing. The units are doing these things; so is the whole.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1355

All life’s chillun do dance
hold hands ‘n jangle
in delight!

Cells and cities
feed on the flow
coming from outside
die when cut off
when connected
transform
the outside world!

Grief & joy
—whatever you’ve got
surprise, prayer, symphony!
friends, families, worlds
intercourse & all other
conversation!
the dance needs the dancers
as the singers need the song
the rain that stalled my outdoor project
today gives me water to drink
this maple tree outside my window
and I provide breathing
air for each other
we are made up of our families
and friends & they of us:
without the other
neither could be who they are

These we gotsta make
’cause we’re alive!

Please pass it on.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1355

All life’s chillun do dance
hold hands ‘n jangle
in delight!

Cells and cities
feed on the flow
coming from outside
die when cut off
when connected
transform
the outside world!

Grief & joy
—whatever you’ve got
surprise, prayer, symphony!
friends, families, worlds
intercourse & all other
conversation!
the dance needs the dancers
as the singers need the song
the rain that stalled my outdoor project
today gives me water to drink
this maple tree outside my window
and I provide breathing
air for each other
we are made up of our families
and friends & they of us:
without the other
neither could be who they are

These we gotsta make
’cause we’re alive!

Please pass it on.

© c 2013, Learning Works, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: 574/341-0022, or by e-mail to mailto:Doug AT FootprintsInTheWind.com. Back issues available at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com

Events and Interplay are we
EIEI
O!

:- Doug.

We are events
making up events
containing events
events & interplay
we are born, among, & die
thus we birth
thus we “are”—and are not

:- Doug.

Just letting the fat melt off me. How? By not eating for this moment. By getting busy.

:- Doug.

Inviting, Imagining, Including
I am

:- Doug.

How many leaves on
you, maple tree? Will you green
before turning brown?

:- Doug.

We are becoming, we are growing, we are not stuck in a mud. Christ is of imagination: becoming, growing, doing what we can to make the beloved community a reality on this old planet. We have choices, and they daily revolve not so much around doing good versus doing evil as around doing something good versus just sitting there.

:- Doug.

Stuck in a bad relationship? You’re not alone. So’s the other person!

:- Doug.