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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2542

We now center our lives in our day to day, minute to minute, even, forgetting all else. What would it take—and what would result—if we centered our lives in the stream of which we are part? Or at least regularly tuned into this larger conversation?

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Words are to focus;
Imagination runs free

:- Doug.

What the art of generations?

:- Doug.

The generations find and show us wonder, even in the face of utter destruction.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2541

It’s not that I was trying to say something, but I was searching for something that needed to be said.

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It’s not just about you. But they are—we are—depending upon you.

:- Doug.

How wide is your community, and long?

:- Doug.

Persons indigenous to the Americas: We teach, we learn from and we seek peace and beauty and living with and among, all the living world.
Twenty-first century Americans: We analyze, pull apart, extract knowledge and energy from a dead and dying world.

:- Doug.

First contention, then evil; evil is made of intention, a leaning.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2540

The “dream” (ideal) of the generations is compassionate, just, domination-free, social, communal, egalitarian. The dream (high peak at which we aim) of contemporary American culture is individualistic, wealthy, young, standing out, looking good, getting more wealthy, getting more cars, getting more houses (note: not homes), getting more stuff, getting more attention.

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We are not from ever to ever adapted to be only one person: We are larger than that—we are each a probability wave.

:- Doug.

Buber: Nameless meeter
Omaha: Master of Life

:- Doug.

Each has an interpretation of whatever presents to us. We have heard a tale of an ordinary young woman. It is a story of “magical realism.” But what do the people do with it over time, over generations, thro’ generations? They reverence. They learn. They teach. Whatever all they do, they remember.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2539

To crave attention
Is to crave belonging
Our already place in cosmos

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The stories of the peoples are of the generations.

:- Doug.

Can a village be courageous, sacrificial, sad, life-giving?

:- Doug.

Something that lasts long stands as a reminder of an aspect and ideal of the generations.

:- Doug.

Animal council stands for generations council.

:- Doug.

Are the generations more about community than wisdom? What about community is lasting?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2538

There is a season to Conversing & to Meeting & to Soul making
& then the universe, the cosmos, turns
Another bit & we do not recognize ourselves nor
Where we are, but even so
We are interior inferior hands of flesh & opening
Fingers allowing light & oxygen & flight &
Escape!

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I am the old one
You the young
I know things you do not

I am the new generation
You the eld
I make things you have not imagined

:- Doug.

However the generations speak with us, it is likely it is more subtle than how we speak with us.

:- Doug.

Brain is noun, thing; mind is verb, action. Your brain on Alzheimer’s is oatmeal, chop suey, tangled spaghetti; even then your mind stirs, heats, twirls.

:- Doug.