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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1935

Not our words
are we elders
to generations
of grandchildren
more a
tune in the wind
needing a practiced ear
and do we
practice giving
our ear
to our ancestors?

Please pass it on.

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Can you conflict with our grandchildren and still love them? Consider Mindell’s 4 phases and NVC’s 4 steps. Can you develop a relationship with the grandchildren? Have a dilemma with them?

:- Doug.

What are we learning? What do we want and need to learn?

:- Doug.

What can only be seen in a mirror? Reflecting makes visible. Doubling the distance, reversing the field, repeating back to us our complex thoughts and feelings, all help us entangle the knot and make sense, to hear how ready we are to come together, to name, to be heard. Percolation.

:- Doug.

Take responsibility for whom you love as an act of service: First, do you love these grandchildren elders? What’s to love? How to love them? How to serve them as they serve humanity’s grandchildren?

:- Doug.

What was the most difficult spiritual thing you’ve done? The most challenging spiritual question you’ve had to ask?

:- Doug.