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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2349

Make it fun, be an imp. Implify!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2348

It is not deeper, nor necessarily farther in where we “go.” It is just another curtain, even if less often opened, or never before opened. It might be more painful than other curtains, or less. It might be more intricate or less. Probably each curtain is just as close to home.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2347

Ourselves: we can explain, but we are utterly unable to understand.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2346

Conversation has the benefit of being human size. We can hear our voice. We can have it heard. We cannot get this on the national stage or even in our gatherings. We can discover and have our discovery heard with respect and awe.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2345

Life is not straight line
Simply wait
For the next curve

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2344

Seek out random encounters
Seek one less thing to do
Seek and welcome the stranger
Seek responsibility for what you love
Seek not but do welcome disturbances

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2343

Be uncomfortable. Remember that conversation gives time.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2342

Time is not time
Time is shorthand
For allowing the course to arrive
at its next observation
For healing
For forgetting
For seasoning
For learning
For reflection
For calming
For settling of muddy waters
For distance
Time is not time

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2341

What, to you, is holy chance?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2340

The work of a conversation cannot be known ahead. We find it as it goes. More precisely it and we find one another. Even more precisely, we find us together in this stew. Still more precisely, we make this stew—out of us. Into us. If we don’t get somehow lost, this stew is not fully made. We expect never to be fully made: We do not understand a word like transformation.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2339

We shrink from intimate because we sense it is of the holy. It is other. Do we remember that holy is other?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2338

Wonder: are birds and others of our cousins so un-nuanced that their world is all sex and predators and no poetry? Or is this just the limit of our imagination?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2337

In conversation, your friend is at once your window, door, and skylight to other worlds.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2336

Some use a string
to find their way returning
I seek a thread
to find a way into
the forest’s dark and bright

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2335

The work has no finis
The artist and the work
Disentangle one another

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2334

That a conversation moves from a café at 3:15 to outside time and space for its partakers is the office of meeting. That a conversation moves from two distinct individuals to a blurring, blending, swirling of the lines separating them—like whipping cream disappearing in chocolate—is a flag of meeting.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2333

Listen to hear! In your words flowing by you too fast, sometimes yours, sometimes your friend’s, are soft tiny flecks of worth. Pan.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2332

Participating
in the conversation
means you are creating

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2331

I was lost and now I don’t want to be found.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2330

Maybe a pattern-seeking animal is a pattern-making animal. If so, ought we be seeking non-patterns, such as the random, the stochastic, the guessed-at? For instances: the music in the wind’s vagaries, the way some birds fly sort of with the flock, sort of not, the route of smoke on a still day? Let’s go farther and further afield from those. In looking in these places, we are even now looking for a pattern. What is a non-pattern? It has to somehow exceed the question of What patterns are we incapable of seeing?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2329

I had a dream. I became Thou.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2328

This morning I’ve been reading John Dewey
He carries the tone of the nineteenth century
So too does Virginia Woolf
But then there’s Walt Whitman
Who wrote earlier
Who comes to me as alive in my age
And Blake—My! My!
And Rumi and Rilke
They all wrote to me
And to generations after mine
They wrote from the stars
This is the way to write
To you

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2327

How does it affect one’s thinking to be left-handed? Your hand always immediately covers what you write. How would that train your memory?

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