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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1370

Forget the furniture! That should be our mantra! In a book I am reading a man is recounting how his father tried to get fellow Jews to leave before Hitler rounded them up. What he heard was “What shall we do with the furniture?” He left. They did not.

What furniture holds us back from life? Perhaps I should not start this big project now because I am usually very busy in the month of May. And I have a spring class to teach. Furniture!

Choose the profound, the larger. Choose life! Choose now. Forget the furniture!

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Does birth fill space and time and death end them, or are they both unrevealed potential?

:- Doug.

Maybe the world is more complex than our metaphors or labels. Even that sweet and simple rose has thorns and aphids and blood and heart and….

:- Doug.

The world is a mixture of what stands out there and what we make of it, a tangle, inseparable. It goes deeper than “a sunny day is better than a cloudy one,” or “the sun is shining on me.” We cannot have our world without our own coloring. We can never see the world except through our eyes, handle it except by our hands, and all these get filtered so subtly we mostly do not see the filters.

:- Doug.

We see things, say the earth and the sun, as separate. Maybe they are no so unconnected as we “see,” and do not have all the characteristics we attribute to them.

:- Doug.

Let’s not open space every time but once experiment with opening place. Space is empty, cold, infinite, lifeless, dark, alien and void. Place on the other hand is organic, nurturing, warm, wet, human, intelligent, alive, connective, filled with nascent meaning.

:- Doug.