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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1964

Our message is against numbness.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1963

As we grow older, the more idio each of our syncracies.

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Our stories might well challenge our hearers—intellectually, metaphorically, universally.

:- Doug.

Meaning is only between and among people.

:- Doug.

What is meaning? Depth?

:- Doug.

How do stories travel? How do memes travel? How does mysticism travel?

:- Doug.

Your story can change the lives of adult grandchildren. But not the story you’re telling. And not the way you’re telling it.

:- Doug.

Retell each other’s story. Find its other paths.

:- Doug.

Story is invitation. Story can be declined. Story is inexhaustible.

:- Doug.

Trust grandchildren. That is all. Trust the story to grandchildren.

:- Doug.

Each one’s story touches the universal. Microcosm is macrocosm. We owe the grandchildren of humanity our most soul-wrenching story. Just one. This one.

:- Doug.

Can you let them learn a lesson you did not intend?

:- Doug.

In these covid times
aren’t we starved
for meaning-finding conversation?
Even in non-covid times
aren’t we ever?

:- Doug.

What’ll get in the way of the grandchildren following the right path? Conformity, authority? Like the Ordinary Men of Hitler’s death squads? Maybe less dramatic things like ennui.

:- Doug.

Just one story
One story only

:- Doug.

Our souls are layered
all the way down

:- Doug.

Breath is
out-offering
and in-gathering

:- Doug.

This will pass
Into what?
Will we choose?

:- Doug.

Rage, rage if you will
the light is not dying
but spreading

:- Doug.

One human superpower
—for whatever arises
for others
for our selves—
the capacity to meet

:- Doug.

The purpose is to tell a story that must be heard.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1962

A role of elders is to place us in the streaming of the ages. The stream of otherwise. Of possibility. Of times discontinuous with the present.

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There is a danger of beating the horse to death before it can run free. The possibility is that we open wide the range in which it can run. Where are the places we might meet our story and set it running?

Rather than storycatching, we want story releasing! Riding the Feral Story. Riding the Savage Story.

Feral suggests escape from domestication, which is pretty close to what we want to say: we are taking a story that we have domesticated into our lives and turning it back free.

:- Doug.