FootprintsintheWind.com

people only
Hear
what they are
prepared to
Taste

:- Doug.

Stories and poems live
in metaphor
as metaphor

:- Doug.

When you use a metaphor in your story or poem, ask, What kind of X is that? Go two or three steps: your metaphor can grow more true to what you meant, more concrete.

:- Doug.

We dream in metaphor
No, our metaphors
Are our dreams

:- Doug.

You are laying a snare
to take the mind

:- Doug.

All human activity is to express
When heard the circle completes
Being heard makes a person

:- Doug.

Some fog out there today—that is good for the imaginary.

:- Doug.

The imaginary world is larger than the real. That’s what gives it a pull across centuries.

:- Doug.

What he classes as funny is not, and is not intended as, funny.

:- Doug.

My first fruitings
of the day
give to divinity underarching

:- Doug.

Tell your story
their questions their eyes
tell you

:- Doug.

We make the world
in order to inter-stand it
We invent worlds
in order to find

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1992

Remember the 545.

Please pass it on.

© c 2020, Learning Works, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: 574/291-0022, or by e-mail to mailto:Footprints AT FootprintsInTheWind.com. Back issues available at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com

This course encourages
you to think to dream
in wholes, completes

:- Doug.

Immerse the grandchild
in any environs
her essence will soak up the music

:- Doug.

Sometimes to write something is to make it less significant.

:- Doug.

We are placing ourselves into a larger flow. Our plash has an effect.

:- Doug.

Is this awe, or wonder? A mix? Does meaning serve this?

:- Doug.

With your mother’s eyes
    Are you called to life
From out of her womb
    Her eyes search yours search
And you are known
With your mother’s eyes
    You are called forth
You gazing back
    Become known
    Become person
    Become real

:- Doug.

What is a mind
That it is so easily stretched
That it stretches at all?
That it loves to be
And is frightened to be?

:- Doug.

I am a mystery-teller
For you I offer a mystery
Ancestors

:- Doug.

Some progress on ancestor thinking. Inheritance, kinship, sustenance, mutuality, weave. Change those to verbs: Inherit, kin, sustain, mutual, weave, feed, eat, nurture, digest, strengthen, direct, point, sing, story-tell, flow, contradict, oppose, negate the negation, walk, maintain. What is the image, the fragrance, the tune, the rhythm, the texture and temperature of the surface and the deeps?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1991

We came from star-stuff gathering to waters to dry land and the grasses appeared and the beings too small to see and they gathered into communities called grasses and larger and larger and into beings with fins and with legs four and two and more and so our ancestors are not one but plural and we are plenty and beauty and living and dying and rounding and we today eat of these breathe of these stand on these are these and

Please pass it on.

© c 2020, Learning Works, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: 574/291-0022, or by e-mail to mailto:Footprints AT FootprintsInTheWind.com. Back issues available at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com