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What is cookie baking about? Making up a story? Love is too facile an answer. There is something in the ordinary.

:- Doug.

If we are a species distinguishable from adult, we must have powers distinguishable, not built of strength nor speed, but probably of profundity and meaning and heart for complexity and contradiction.

:- Doug.

Map a major part
A power beyond adult
—story?
—far-sight?
—mist-ifying?
—unknowing?

:- Doug.

I write things
I cannot know
It is up to you
To prove them in
Experience or disprove

:- Doug.

We in age
have power beyond
adult which we
must invent
and use for good

:- Doug.

I’m old
I’m a special kind of old

:- Doug.

Here’s the thing—
This is and will be enough
and
The world needs our kick in the rump
and
We must find a way to live
out fully these both at once

:- Doug.

What now is your contribution of meaning for those to come?

:- Doug.

We will make effort to discover dozens of ways to open humanity to spirit.

:- Doug.

We’re a new generation, but that’s not the significant thing. We have health and energy and freedom—and that’s not either. What’s deepest lies in our new opportunities and responsibilities. There is a larger picture. We are a part and can help form and frame. Can we get to beloved sacred blessed community? To what holds us together? Can we mend the earth, heal our anger, our orientation to Dollars and numbers?

:- Doug.

We don’t have a word for it because this stage of life is virtually unknown to us.

:- Doug.

Do you notice anything different in your attitude, in your stance to the world? Is something developing?

:- Doug.

We will turn our thinking
upside in
outside to
wrongside up
that sitting here this
different chair might see
and say an unforeseen future

:- Doug.

Stand it on its head
see what you can learn
how your way might turn

:- Doug.

Finally, consciously, we may move toward being whole people.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1837

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1837

When will compassion rise?
When will gentle own the future?

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What is the meaning of your contribution now for those to come?

:- Doug.

Take it from
—No, give it from
—No, give it to
Your real
Out, back, home

:- Doug.

Out beyond
Words
Images
Clarity
Us
Love
—Meet

:- Doug.

Exists
a larger surround
we shape
as it
shapes us

:- Doug.

Quiet friend now
meditate be silent
that you may hear
now from the very darkness
sing out
a bell in your bell tower
that generations may hear

:- Doug.

If your name in thirty years be forgotten
even then is your life ever fully lost?

:- Doug.

Shouldn’t life
finally bear fruit
in us?

:- Doug.