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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2394

One cannot be human alone.

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If you were to travel to a different
world, what would be in it? How
do you know that would be any better?

:- Doug.

You say, unimposingly,
this is what I need
to remember.

:- Doug.

Do you hear
the conversations
beyond the curtains
across the divides
plants conversing?

:- Doug.

Ask the price
Get a story:
Now you’re in trouble!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2393

What is a story from these months you will tell years from now?

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What’s this poem to do with conversing?

:- Doug.

The math myth: adding numbers or pricing out things grabs our attention and pulls in us. When it does. But it lacks weight and the nut meat of the thing’s truth.

:- Doug.

Go farther into space
Go farther into fog
Go farther into void
Go farther into breath
So far you leave behind
Breaths and persons known
How did you ever say “deep?”

:- Doug.

What do I not remember?

:- Doug.

This is being alive
And the feeling of being alive

:- Doug.

What is the feeling of being alive now? Now? Now again?

:- Doug.

Awareness is aliveness
before interpretation.
You’re not the only one alive
aliveness moves through you
and emerges from you.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2392

People are background; persons are foreground.

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Grieving and fatigue are powers.

:- Doug.

Grief is a sharing:
In dying, not death
Death happens once only
Dying and grieving
Are for the living

:- Doug.

Grieving and fatigue are signs you’re yet alive. Only living people can have either.

:- Doug.

I have thought of some responsibilities on my own. But others can awaken me to greater, to variety, to possibility.

:- Doug.

Self expression is a way of hearing the mystery of me. Conversation is a way of hearing the larger mystery of we.

:- Doug.

Conversation demands
Conversation objects
Conversation fights you. Both.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2391

Once I met them our new
neighbors became knowable
friendable

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His actions may be beyond compassion, but his followers are not.

:- Doug.

With humanity the world becomes conscious of itself. With conversation humanity becomes—however haltingly—transparent to itself. With transparency comes increasing clarity and the risk of compassion. Hearing the stories of our others heals both of us, that is, makes us whole. Makes us one, in some way. This is a power, a potential, we did not before possess.

We have then responsibility for heart-hearing.

:- Doug.