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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2164

Conversation heals
Conversation makes whole
Wholes can ever
Become more whole
You are whole
Already
You can be more whole
Our culture can be more whole
The living community about us
More whole
Conversation heals

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2163

The waters of conversation do not forget their responsibility. Put out a pitcher. Share something to hydrate as well as bread to break.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2162

Like the boy lost in thought, we dance the circle dance of conversation. It stops our thinking to get us thinking new thoughts, it stops our talking to get us talking new talk. New persons.

We remember to remember. We are new persons.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2161

People of the fire
Conversation makes
Make conversation

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2160

Some say history is a river
Some say spiral
Others, older perhaps
hold it is a lake
where past, future, present
mingle
I swim through
cool and warm pockets
Ancients speaking
Whispers waiting for birthing
I am—all are—reshaped

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2159

Making conversation is not to be taken lightly. It is a sacred responsibility.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2158

Trees and grasses. Sunshine and earth. Some water. Someone hands you a slip of paper. It says you alone can be here. For a spell. For a spell. Together you imagine a house. A home. A garden. You enlist help. A house and garden appear. Home comes into focus, continually changing across years. Friends come and go. You join workplaces, groups, perhaps churches, political conversations. By you joining, they change. You change. Your world changes. You see it differently. New people come. With richer pictures of their world. Someday you realize everyone lives in a different world. A world each makes. A world seen through filters each holds up. Even husbands and wives live in different homes, see different trees and grasses, sunshine and earth. Some water. For a spell. For a spell. It is good.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2157

Paddle or get out of the canoe.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2156

The big question right now is why and how recognizing our relation to plants and animals, knowing again their personhood, relates to our study of conversation. In one sense it is obvious: relation and person are basics of conversation. Yet we in western thought mode, especially since the rise of science, do not admit that living beings besides humans can be persons. That is, can have value as individuals. So one thing we do not know is how this mosquito, this dandelion, this moss can have worth as an individual. Another is how we might meet.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2155

If you’re to have a conversation with your garden, you’ve got to get your knees dirty.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2154

This life is a gift. I have received it and I treasure every breath of it. And when I am done with it, and my consciousness, I will lay them down and just ahead, I will accept what comes or does not come next. I have that choice I can make.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2153

Conversing is an act of reciprocity: giving to the world in return for all given to me. Pause, consider.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2152

Every day we
are met by gifts
meant to be held
but not kept
our work to pass

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2151

What do you give in return for this person’s attention to you?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2150

The breeze runs its slender fingers through the leaves of maple, here and there turning up a flash of silver; a stream play-wrestles the fishes; a dog eats the treat so he can play with the human throwing the ball. Who’s to say each of these conversations are not in some way intimate knowing exchanges? When humans “make” a metaphor from the natural world, who’s to say from the plant’s side a lesson was not taught? Who’s to say there is there no imagination that we as yet understand but even then catch?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2149

Why do we break bread together? Because we need food to go on living. And we need together even more: for the dynamic of living.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2148

When the stream flows
water takes on oxygen
and the fish live more intensely
This is our conversation
we the fish
the shade the eddies the rocks
the sun the raindrops

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2147

Some conflicts waste our energies. Some might focus them.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2146

The emptiness
among us
has shape
and sound
do you find
your way here
and hear?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2145

We probably don’t so much solve tough problems as evolve with them.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2144

Why the words exist
Why the dreams exist
Why the clouds exist

Poem, you pull me in. Here is progression, I am unsure if I have it right. It is from smaller to larger, I think, pulling us out. Is this a function of conversation?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2143

Get people together.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2142

Fishing is conversation between fisher and worm and hook and line, between fish and fisher: a tuggle, a release, a quiet again following. The fish flashing away, heart beating, hiding; the fisher sitting back, taking in the enjoyment, thinking of re-baiting the hook.

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