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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2118

What if, in conversation, we consciously brought in more differences, more context, say by chance? More differences might help us in settings where people see only the others’ choice as morally wrong: it will help each “side” to see that the setting is much more complex than two sides. Maybe.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2117

We should endeavor always to see one another in frames of value, of each one’s aspirations.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2116

Do our conversations gain a deeper feeling in complexity? Just maybe they do. Complexity is a place to get lost, the unpredictable flames in the cooking fire, and lost is a deep dark place with things swirling around you. There is something moving you cannot quite understand, cannot grasp. Maybe it grasps you.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2115

In asking “What do we not know,” we are seeking the true out beyond the true.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2114

Energy is found in all parts of the context: the players, the surround, the betweens, and it is this energy, this push, that makes systems complex and adaptive. It is the dog-kick principle in action: kick a stone and you can from physics know what it will do; kick a dog and the dog has input into what happens next. The dog has stored up calories and experiences which have a greater role than your kick. Only in real life there are more dogs than we can count. A few of these “extra” dogs bite.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2113

The role of each participant is to complicate.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2112

What I don’t like about conversation is I seldom get my way. Then I realize my strong continuing desire for the novel is being met by the continuing desire in all of us to be left as we were. All nature seems thus. The pull and the pull back keep things growing just enough. Sometimes I get some of my way.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2111

Sometimes I want to explain, to give details and examples. Then I remember the farmer’s simple hand-wrought gate opens to a meadow of 100 visible species, sky, and a stream. There swings your invitation.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2110

Conversation runs through sport, it runs through literature. It runs through silence and through mystery and through creativity. It is all relations. It is perhaps the essence of life. So how do we do it well? How do we do it better? It, like life, is not a tool for some purpose or goal. It is the context, larger context of life.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2109

In me this morning
the world paused

& caught wisp
of its meaning
rounding the corner

The world in us
chooses to pause

freshened,
turns again

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2108

In a meeting of the minds, the players ought not go out the same as each other, but infected by each other. Inflected. Infected is stained, tinged, dyed, colored. To inflect is to bend, flex. Not change at angles, curved.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2107

How do we choose to shape and color our world? We all shape the world, some by lying on it, plumping the pillow, some by dancing, some by shoveling.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2106

We are getting the work going. We are testing what might work. We are working on the problem of how the experimenters themselves can human better. We share methods and incomplete results. A fundamental plagues us: do humans want to get better?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2105

Muddy your path
Show them you were here

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2104

Talk with your children. Talk with your grandchildren. Invite them to hear one another. We may have only this one chance where there is an entire generation of grandmas and grandpas to invite those who come next.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2103

Tell a story so we wouldn’t be so scared in the dark.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2102

One sure stroke
hammer to bell
a clear note
lasting
my ears tease out
tones beyond number
today I choose to follow
this one
and its mysteries
getting clearer
never clear
for what would be
the fun?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2101

Host a poetry party—finish each other’s verse—with something that makes it more wonderful.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2100

The very leaning in of this work is to produce surprises.

Staring
into deep waters
accustoming
eyes to shadow light
there!
a fish flashes
turns and is
gone
was it ever
there?
dogsplash!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2099

Kind Deed
I grant to you the power and authority to do today for someone of your choosing, by surprise, a kind deed. Expires January 6, 2022.
:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2098

Begin wider
the circle
nudge out

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2097

I am about rainbows, butterflies, and hot chocolate.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2096

We think we are particles
We are also waves
Waves of people flowing down highways
Flowing, surging, ebbing through life
Waves of humanity through history
Flowing to new places, new times
Waves of family flowing together
Meeting, meeting, meeting
Young mother and babe
Old one helping young learn
Going out here, out there
Coming back, finding friends
Finding we are who we are together
Together again
Waves have us together
Drops in the seas
Seas full of power
Seas full of life
Waves full of power
Waves full of stillness
Waves full of life
Alone is true
Together is more whole
We thought we were particles
We found we are also waves

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