Shamanic Vision: Living Life through the Eyes of the Heart #6, 1st Qtr 2018 | Page 3

Footprints
I like to come up with a single word theme for each issue of Shamanic Vision.
At the moment “Footprints” came to me, I was walking in a park. I looked down at my feet and noticed the
footprints of many, a dance floor of imprints and impressions that spoke of solitary journeys and moments
in time that were shared on a footpath.
I observed the equal pressured foot pad, the foot print of the man with the inverted ankle, the step marks of
the clod footed man, the twisting steps of a young woman who launched each foot with the ballerinas'
delicacy. I saw the straight line prints of a mongrel dog and the circles left behind by children that had
played marbles; I noticed the trails of run off from a long forgotten rain shower. There were the markings
of an old man with his four footed cane. I also smelled the overbearing cologne of young men, whose
olfactory footprints lingered well behind them.
In all that we do, in all that we say, in all that we think, we leave behind a footprint of where we have been,
and of what we experience. This is a sharing gift to the World. A sharing gift to mankind, and to all of our
relations.
So, this month we look at footprints.
Many of the articles in this issue are sharings from students and friends. So come, and walk with them and
follow their footprints as they open doors and offer us glimpses into their own sacred journeys.
So, open your Hearts, Minds and walk lightly, Dear Ones.
Paul
Shamanic Vision Issue #6, 1 st Quarter 2018
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