Episode #921
September 26, 2026
“Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind”
— Kansas
“I close my eyes
Only for a moment and the moment’s gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes with curiosity”
— Kansas
But what if I don’t close my eyes? What if I live my dreams and apply all the focus and pressure of my will on the dust of those dreams?
I can apply enough force to make dust into diamonds.
The shovel of intent can backfill the pits, voids, and depressions of life with the very dust of our spirits.
“Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though [if] we refuse to see”
–Kansas
Moisten dust, form into bricks, and build foundations for life projects. Stack those bricks to house your selfhood. Thatch from straw, bound with dust-mud, protects from the sudden unforeseen lightning strikes of conflict, envy, and despair.
“Now don’t hang on
Nothin’ lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won’t another minute buy”
—Kansas
Money is imagined. Nothing slips away. Everything is the earth and sky.
The sky has no limit. Ashes released at 10,000 feet will touch every continent.
Wolf-Rayet, magnetic, radiation, solar, coronal, protostellar, and dust-driven winds stir the universe and touch us from every part of everywhere.
What if we are stardust? We can and have exploded ourselves into the universe. Can make atoms, molecules, and matter. We can spin ourselves into suns and planets and galaxies. We have avoided and surrendered to the black holes of the unknown.
“Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind…
Dust in the wind…
Everything is dust in the wind”
—Kansas
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