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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2383

As I grow replete in years and start to gather a cadre of doctors around me, do I seek to make them my friends? Better do I seek to befriend? Even, do I seek to converse with them, to meet?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2382

We have in our friends more lives to live—how can we spare any more time on this one? “I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2381

Conversation is increase in existence.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2380

I have a vocabulary that I practice day by day in my poetry. That comes easily. In making I leave far behind the daily. It does not exist for hours at a time. It is not needing in my making. When I return I am lost. The language there is foreign, the words long unused, and so fresh. Is that excuse? Or is there some fact?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2379

When we seek to converse artfully, we are measuring the talking by what we put into it, words and spirit, not by what we get from it.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2378

What if you dream’d
And what if in your dream
You conversed with your friend
And what if you awoke
With your phone in your hand?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2377

Hearing means bearing—one another’s burdens of pain, of telling, of hearing.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2376

We don’t get to meeting often with our family members, especially those with whom we spend most of our evenings. This is because we do not have with them, in Dewey’s term (from his Art as Experience), experiences—something that “runs its course to fulfillment” (p 35)—with these persons. Instead, “we drift. . . . One thing replaces another, but does not absorb it and carry it on. . . . [These times] are anesthetic.” (p 40) There is no clear resolution nor delineation. There are no edges like in conversation or meeting. What we lack is a date night, a light over an isolated table and event. We lack pattern and structure. We lack appreciating, receiving, and enjoying. We lack noticing.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2375

The dark wood is as clear as highway, only it asks more of us.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2374

Can I trust this mystery? The mystery may be this person opposite—that would be easy: people are mostly made of good will. The mistier mystery is the conversation itself. Here the trusting takes an effort of will.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2373

Enjoy your tears
Here the garden is watered
Wipe not away your seed

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2372

Underneath your persona—where you are maskless—is your Indra’s Net. Reflected there is your mother holding your real face in her two hands. Reflected there is your mate. Reflected there are the many persons and people, great and unnoticed, who figure in your life, including the person with whom you last conversed. Reflected there are a hundred, hundred voices. Own your net of lucid gemstones. When you meet a new person you lightly touch a smooth or sharp or jagged facet of yourself—whom you can be, whom you are, whom you can grow into, at any number of life moments remaining, whom you can aid.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2371

Sleep long and prosper.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2370

The sky returns to blackness
Always returns to blackness
But the stars!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2369

Write less
Glance more

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2368

The flood between us
We pour one into the other
Each is bottomless to receive
Each has endless holy to billow
A leaf falls on the churning
On the leaf a lacewing
Calling in words we know not

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2367

What would it be to converse artfully?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2366

Conversing we form a moire
not even a pattern
see?
But we see not
don’t have to see

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2365

Allow your friend’s humanity to touch you; then allow this touch to be visible to others.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2364

Every bridge
is reflected on waters
and a path toward waters

Every conversation
is reflected on one another
and a path toward each

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2363

Default to wonder.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2362

Dōgen advises:
Investigate mountains thoroughly.
To investigate is the work of mountains.
I say your friend is your mountain;
do not tell her.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2361

A conversation is a living beast
It snarls, it bites
Its eyes fix on yours, knowing

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