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The living—those who are concerned with time and place and things—act upon and can be acted upon by their relationship with the generations.

:- Doug.

When you bring together people to live, work, and play, they grow on one another, into one another.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2549

To Agamemnon: When you dehumanize others you dehumanize yourself.

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The generations are the soil for ensuing generations, their humus.

:- Doug.

Most myths and folk tales seem to me tell of stupidities. Some few of heroines and heroes.

:- Doug.

It is not an easy task nor easily said, but a challenge against high odds: This the murmur insistent of the ages.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2548

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

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Only an hour or two; what will we make of it?

:- Doug.

Tell one another what we are doing—day to day, life within life. We are doing something that makes a generation, moves along generations.

:- Doug.

I can hear the children’s eagerness in their feet.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2547

Liars and Weasels and Thieves, O my!

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These stories anthropomorphize the land, its features, its creatures, its doings and weathers. This is to comprehend the larger mystery, bring it to size, find the long in the short.

:- Doug.

Humans did not discover fire—lightning did!

:- Doug.

The trees remember
For centuries, some of them
The fishes for a bite or longer for a hook
Mountains remember for millennia
Our earth for geologic ages
We humans, with our over-sized brains
Forget, pay no attention, forget

:- Doug.

We live our lives in individual days
Just so we live our generations in individual lives
& so we barely, rarely
take any notice
of either
Still we know them
If

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2546

You have a breath of life & a lightning
to confer
& I an ear to give & a face to turn to you

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Our stories tell us we are sister to all that live, brother to traveling winds.

:- Doug.

To listen is to work on the other;
But to hear, O, is more sacred and effectual:
This other works on oneself.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2545

Here for good.

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The problem is we think we can control the generations arising, or can benefit them with our wisdom (or if not, then our experience ought to count for something, oughtn’t it?). But we don’t hear those who went before us. So neither control nor wisdom is the point.

:- Doug.

The generations are not about wisdom.

:- Doug.

When we meet another, really
hear him or her, actually
take up into our being his
or her being, here is
where, now is when,
the generations
engender.

:- Doug.

You are real; but is what I experience about you real?

:- Doug.