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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2257

Conversation wants to be free and complete, to have all tensions and all contentment, to be free to be what’s necessary now with this person: prophet, confessor, playmate.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2256

Let us so grasp each other’s words we have them inside us. The parts you say that catch me up short: Let me write these down. Let me repeat them to you to make sure I got them right. Let me memorize them and give them back to you tomorrow. Let me repeat them to myself beyond memorizing, so that inside my head I find you.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2255

Why do I write of water and streams? Didn’t I realize water is symbolic of life?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2254

O friend, my friend
I forgot how much I crave
wandering times with you, even intimate
your woods and waters, tiny, gentle, savage critters
you stalk and scurry and soothe: O touch! O breathe!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2253

After cataract surgery I wonder often what other people see.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2252

If
the thing
you read
is clear
you do
not under
stand

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2250

Consider
when you close your eyes
what the babies may think to be true
the page in front of you and all the words
disappear
in equal measure
when the person in front of you blinks
you disappear
and the whole world with you
and this goes on all day long
pop goes the weasel!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2249

A conversation is a sabbath in our lives.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2248

That ancient dream
that dream
you start to run
you need to run
your legs are heavy
and in slowest motion
that dream is telling
that you are a thing of moving
your nature is to quickly fly
the daily parts you use
cannot carry you
as poetry
as your imagination

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2247

I’m not good at opposing, at standing firm. What then? I am at least better at collaborating. So let’s work on this together, shall we?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2246

A baby learning his toes
fingers them tastes them
bends them this way that
O could we flex so
learning our play!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2245

Something’s not right. We all feel it. Something’s not right with the world. With a world where people get shot for ringing the wrong doorbell. With a world where people are afraid of one another. Something’s not right. Nevertheless. Be fiercely kind.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2244

Preparing hostilities they are
trees planted in this forest floor
choosing friend and foe
defending and grabbing territory
loudly shouting “War!” into the wind!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2243

I converse to find awe in you…knowing it is there.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2242

In conversation we have the opportunity to be a translator for another—her un-heard, un-recognized language into something she now can hear, maybe act upon. We can illuminate for her.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2241

Create proverbs together.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2240

With a watch or a phone in view we stunt our conversations. These pull us away from entering whole heartedly into the other person, let alone the luscious between. It is about the same as scanning the room for someone better with whom to chat. We can still have short conversations, full of pith and vinegar. But we must first decide whether this person standing in need of us is more important to us than our preoccupation.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2239

If it is too big to capture, hint.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2238

A recent report suggests that in REM sleep the mind is sorting out memories to store and memories to discard. This makes sense of a few things for me. This memory gets sorted as similar to that memory of long ago, some feminine persons get shelved near Mom. And if one purpose is to clear out detritus, that explains why we don’t remember our dreams—that’s the job!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2237

We are as clouds intermingling—there is no individual in a cloud—each is made up of other clouds—vaporing, flocculating, stretching, clouds togethering into clouds.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2236

We are in for even more heaving of the ground beneath, not just in politics, which is its epicenter, but in our very toehold in life. With artificial intelligence now let out of the laboratory, and with ethics thrown overboard, we won’t be able to trust our eyes, nor ears. The pictures and squawks or sweet sounds we get will have little relation to reality. The 2024 election will shove us into a molten looking glass world. Solid footing will be found only with great discerning effort. It might come to us in hugs.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2235

Last night I wrestled with sleep
I’m not sure who won

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2234

This writing does not promise a recipe to follow. Nevertheless it is entire, there is egg to bind the flour into dough. For the next thousand and one nights, or the next thousand and one lifetimes, we will continue incapable of discerning what folds all this conversation-stuff into one dough. Much of the time we will turn round and round not able to choose. But we can feel our way along. We can get closer.

It seems the only way through is to wade into the mix, kneading with fingers, arms, feet, head, heart, soul: the whole body. The sustenance is not in a formula found, rather in ongoing working. A hero’s journey.

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