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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2021

Before you help others with theirs
. . .
Due to dementia
you wrote in your report
she could not or would not
follow therapy directions
But your covid mask covered your lips
and her hearing aids were broken
So you without ill intent missed reality
and did her an injustice
in life as in therapy
. . .
Take off your own mask first

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What are—and might be—the great themes of humanicity? Wit, stupidity, cupidity, emotion, sharpness, love, fear, mistake, entanglement, argument, diversity, enslavement, imagination, reverence, spirit, reverie, liberty, egality, fraternity, verb, adjective, variability, steadfastness, weakenss, strength, vulnerability, mix: these and so many. Work. Hear.

:- Doug.

What you can
          imagine
can be
What you cannot
          imagine
is more
          likely

:- Doug.

We may not always go up
slides are sometimes long
and enduring

:- Doug.

You are, if you choose to activate your imagination in this direction, a bud on the growing edge, capable of starting your branch of humanity.

:- Doug.

From Elder to Ancestor: a new and important conversation about our role as culture-makers and artists

:- Doug.

An Elder’s Great Work?

:- Doug.

A new and important conversation?

:- Doug.

Elders fetch the far.

:- Doug.

Elders, even ancestors, are people who start processes and purposely not finish them.

:- Doug.

My spirit is making me do big thinking.

:- Doug.

I’m using my mind to scratch an itch in my spirit.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2020

Youth puts out to sea to make
Age returns with his catch a skeleton
Creation and forgetting
Two parts, a singular mystery
Human

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We don’t have to wait for one person to come along for the imagination of our generation—or of a minutely small part of it—can bud the branching of the human race.

:- Doug.

Who says our generation is too small to undertake a great purpose?

:- Doug.

The point at which I am stuck is the place for my work, for it is just here where we help others find the cruciality of this work for themselves too.

:- Doug.

It is much less frivolous than it sounds, this poetry making. It is work at budding branching point of the human race.

:- Doug.

Say less
Write only
What needs
Expressing
In this now

:- Doug.

Who will hear?

:- Doug.

Speak poetry to me, grandchild.

:- Doug.

I throw myself into
My poetic adventures

:- Doug.

Ageless Conversations

:- Doug.

We weave future studies, psychology, spirit, political science, poetry, sociology, myth, ethics, story, philosophy, morality, contemplation, and more into a human tapestry tactile, hard and soft.

:- Doug.