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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

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What are you doing to maintain—
Generations yet to come?
Generations gone on ahead?
Generations walking alongside you?
Beings not at all like you ancestoring you?

:- Doug.

Adversity is the guarantor of ancestry, the contraries that Blake says lead to progress, that McKee calls contradictory, contrary, and negation of the negation.

:- Doug.

You ancestor are the story, the song with snatches of tune and maybe almost no words remembered. This melody makes persons of lonely strands. Of DNA. Of estranged blood. Makes mutuality of these persons.

:- Doug.

An ancestor may not provide shoulders to stand on. Rather, sustenance, nurture, food to be taken in, eaten, digested, turned to strength and direction. A help for choice in dilemma. This is my essence: eat.

:- Doug.

Ancestors call forth echoes of inheritance and kinship. Mutuality in these words. Sustenance.

:- Doug.