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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1659

Old year and new year so near to one another
Old day and new so much the same
Old me and new so small a step

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Magic is about will; mysticism is about relating.

:- Doug.

Elders empower themselves to give effective blessings.

:- Doug.

God is relationship, and the archetype thereof.

:- Doug.

If we are vigilant, we must also be prompt.

:- Doug.

Age is merely the hem of elderhood.

:- Doug.

Do what you can
When you can
Knowingly, nudgingly, gently

:- Doug.

Many of the movies I have seen, put together, teach me a curious truth: the people of great wealth, power, and title often play minor roles in real life.

:- Doug.

Write, voices!
Write, hands!
Write, hearts!

:- Doug.

See it bigger, hear it bigger.

:- Doug.

Take the temperature, the music, the rhythm, the aroma, the motion, the flows and swells, the savory and sweetness and blandness, the conversations of this gathering.

:- Doug.

What can it mean to be an elder?

:- Doug.

Freedom is a small thing for look at how little we have done with it.

:- Doug.

Let’s remind ourselves to breathe. Breathing needs both inhalation and exhalation, inspiration and expiration, expanding and contracting. Politically we have entered a phase of contraction. This too is healthy. Just keep reminding us an in-breath is necessary. It will come. Breathe.

:- Doug.

Some elders are seeking subtle ways to work upon the world.

:- Doug.

When you are doing your work, what is the work hidden beyond the surface? What is the more your heart is on? For whom and why?

:- Doug.

Prayers for another
Can be an absorbing
of them

:- Doug.

Poetry is a way
of not facing
in order to face

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1658

Lone leaf on bare branch,
blown: life goes around and through:
fly away; and I

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Friend, there is much here. Perhaps indeed this is another key thought—much. Much and more. The idea of packing much into a short space stretches us. It helps us perceive, touch, be touched. This may be why my writing has lots of commas and non-commas: to pack much and more in here. Alone, this process evokes. Much and more. The world is. Embodied pattern and process. Much and more. What we perceive is much. More than we speak. Yet there is more out there we have yet to perceive. Much and more.

:- Doug.

What does it mean to be an elder?

:- Doug.

You are embodied—call this structure
You do things—process
Within relationships and conversations—pattern

:- Doug.

We have qualities,
possibilities, unknowns:
what a cake to bake!

:- Doug.