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:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1570

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Be prophetic
speaking for
what’s possible

:- Doug.

Have you fallen into the common trap
of safety, helplessness, and boredom?
were these living people here
I’d take the side of the breakable pot
against the children who seek to protect
their mothers from life and imagination
we’ve no guarantee and only this one living to do

:- Doug.

So much depends

:- Doug.

You are a salt shaker
Shake up and shake out
The salt upon the earth

:- Doug.

Jesus came telling us we are free. And responsible.

:- Doug.

My Work is conversation.

:- Doug.

Friend, into your holy now year.

:- Doug.

Be mindful when I am in a setting that might lead to conversation. Depth is unseen because it is under the surface. At times welcomed. One for the group might extend a welcoming hand.

:- Doug.

Can we learn to converse? Doubtful. I can only watch how I converse then respond. You can do the same. Work it is, painful, sweaty, rewarding now, a punch in the gut mostly.

:- Doug.

I hear you. I see a pattern or have an inkling. I speak. You speak your glimpse. She and he add their guesses. We progress. The process is necessary. Daily we impede, daily we facilitate; mindfully choose.

:- Doug.

Which goes deeper, the individual thinker or persons in conversation? I am coming to the place of saying both are necessary, each has places attained. A leap-frog notion might fit, too. Then again, we know that “conscious” is “knowing together.” Both are necessary.

:- Doug.

We don’t all have the same tasks as we age, but we may have the same Work: to get to where we can see our wholeness.

:- Doug.

Conversation, the light of the world.

:- Doug.

Ideas conceived by one
Met my another
Gestated in conversation

:- Doug.

Sleeping on it times
Reflection
Interchange
Remixing
Deepening
Widening
Human needs for growing

:- Doug.

It is not that we have lost something, a long-ago skill perhaps. It is that it takes work—and effort-full intention—to truly meet, truly love, truly live.

:- Doug.

We could have been human.

:- Doug.

Lines vertical in water
Adding horizontals
Our catch increases
From the water air ideas life
Flowing about us

:- Doug.

Fish with a net to catch a diversity; fish with a line to catch a particular. With a net you usually go to middle depths; with a line you can go deeper. However we fish it is good—and human—to share the meal.

:- Doug.

More than surprises
I want surprising people

:- Doug.

Where to find the best methods, where to find the people who care, people who can help you.

:- Doug.