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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2187

Now
we shall
be Whitman’s
brawny & supple
makers & finders
(poets, we!)
What shall we
make & find
but ourselves,
our grandchildren’s lives,
& our sacred?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2186

Conversation is the center of all surprise in the cosmos.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2185

Dialogue is sacrament. It is an engagement that binds upon the participants an obligation each to the other. It is thus a visible or audible sign of the grace between. This grace is mystery to be sure, but an everyday possibility.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2184

Do you enter
into relation
or do you shape the door?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2183

A person becomes such only in the presence of another—and then only in the face of the difference between them. Between them. Note well: each of us—you!—can bestow personhood upon an other you meet today. Astonishing! And ordinary.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2182

How can we bring us together after this divisive political season?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2181

Deliciously lost
In a chocolate swirl
We
Perhaps this conversation
Warms and melts together
Bitter & sweet & possible
& you & me
No notes are made
Nor could they be
This we this now and only once
Yet we entered—and left—a difference

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2180

That we grieve is evidence. We are of a fabric, capable of being ripped, painfully. Pain points to a larger role of meeting. Weave. Stitch. Find.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2179

Stories are medicine
Conversation is medicine
Talk is medicine
It is not lost
It is not
Much used
As medicine

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2178

Conversation is spiritual: we must understand that conversations and stories are living breathing spirits. They run through us, covering miles in minutes, and then circle around two or three of us for ages.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2177

We are the care-givers of the stories, of the conversations. We give care because the stories and the conversations are our cognitive landscapes.

We can find a way to keep the stories and conversations alive in us, to us and all living things, for all living things.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2176

Progress is an ideology, a wish that “it’d go on forever,” based on an assumption that one kind of thing is only ever good. Like all ideologies it is an eye-shutting.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2175

Today, I will live in my body. Feel the sheets on my arm and chest. Feel what my nose and lungs feel as air goes in and out. Notice sound touching my ear canals. Swallow. Taste my unbrushed mouth. Find God in my toes as well as my ethereal brain. Know what it is to have hair and wind in my face. Just for today.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2174

In conversation, remember you are playing.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2173

We can do well, by getting lost in conversation, yes? I used to think you together had to reach a decision about the subject of the conversation. As if there were only one subject! Actually there is—the conversation is its own subject, its own reason for meandering as it does, steeping us in something. There may be more depth in here than we realize while we’re in the stew and the stir.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2172

The largeness
in the world
is in you first

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2171

This conversation is ours, not because we hosted it, but because we cared for it. We are taking a cognitive journey home in this conversation. It is foreign lands to us, so how do we find ourselves at home here? Find the stories. In you. In others. Plant stories in each other. Care for the others. Care for the conversation. Then your cognitive journey begins. Metaphors grow. Moral behavior seeps through. You find you are making your way home. You are conversation. You are home.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2170

Conversation is for exchanging hearing.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2169

Mirrors and Windows
Conversations are
Yes, my other I
My eyes looking back at me
My ears hearing me talk
Face body legs hands
Soft gentle hands
And strong arms
For holding
Hearing you I see
Mountains, forests, flashing waters

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2168

It seems in age I have not become slower but faster: at times I have to stop and wait for words to catch up to me! Having written that don’t you think I can yet think new thoughts?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2167

In our time we see the divine work each is already attempting.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2166

There are many mysteries of this thing called human: love—when do we?, why do we?, why does it surprise?; sex: we know it, we want it, we hold back, then we decide to go but it is a big jump when we do, and then it builds and builds and then. . .; big decisions: we study, we list for and against, we come to the edge, shrink back, then leap; love for all the people on this blue marble: we don’t know them, we cannot know them, and yet the tug when we hear of tragedies and needs; love for this blue marble itself and our place on it: just a hunk of rock spinning in the blackness, merely some collection of earth and water and family and memory, why are we so drawn?, is it more than emotion? One of the mysteries is conversation: why are we drawn to these people, often to any people?, why do we need to be heard?, why do our mother’s eyes, our father’s eyes, our lover’s eyes, bring us to life?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2165

How does humanity get over themselves?

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