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Doing The PolyNomial EquiValent Math

When I was eight
I knew Paradise could not be merely secular humane
and yet be justly and omnipotently divine,
when a Great Horned Owl
breathed her last sacred breath toward me,
left alone
while she flew away
to where I would thinly follow
in my robust adult time.

It took me eight cycles of octave eight
to realize why
Paradise must include multiculturing nests for fowl
and ecopolitically cooperative seas for fish
and surf’s bilateral co-gravity
eco-measuring timeless here and now eternity.

Because a monocultural Paradise
would be polypathically oxymoronic,
an economically and nutritionally ridiculous metaphysical paradigm,
not ecologically sustainable,
not even basic harmonic balance growth potential
because not multiculturally
and polypathically healthy intelligence
of regenerative/degenerative ecopolitical design.

Everybody knows that Heaven
begins and ends in an organically holistic Earth Garden,
with zero-balanced degenerative waste stream,
yes?

So how does denying our climate
and Earthscape wasting pathologies
help us become the ReForesting Paradise
we might cooperatively become
through healing these dissonant
decaying anomalies
together?

 

 

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Healthy Administrative Climates

My goal isn’t so much to win the wars of property management,
self and spouse and family governance
as it is to enjoy this struggling with Earth’s nature/spirit properties,
and my own and others’ humane properties of integral relationship,
to celebrate our participation together
in creating a place called home for now
and an internal space both divine and humane,
sacredly beautiful yet secularly ecopolitically effective
and healthy and robust and regenerative,
in which I can freely and creatively exert my best intended positive influence.

I do not hope to remove all the invasive species in my life,
but to reshape with them toward purposes we can all recreatively enjoy
with healthy ecological-ecopolitical co-empathic trust
in our organic integrity,
past, present, and future.

If what we do carries more informational value
than what we say
about our intentions to do and not do,
then both watching and listening
to where these are redundantly peaceful cooperative climates
and where these produce dissonant stressful unsettling climates
would seem to have both healthier and wealthier informational value,
for all of us,
multiculturally and nutritionally together.

Whether I’m working with invasive vines
or over-Yanged pervasive egos,
most certainly including my own,
I have this co-empathic trust
that we are here to help each other
more than to condemn each other apart,
to build our homes together on this healthy,
regenerately abundant Earth,
and we are not here to condemn each other
to death,
to absence of peace with justice,
to becoming victims of our condemnatory, angry, frightening judgment,
bad humors leading to negative landscapes and climates.

Sometimes we put people in uniforms
and give them weapons
and place them in economic and political leadership positions,
who seem to believe the contrary.
that we are here to use our best, healthiest, wealthiest climate o ecopolitical judgment
to condemn and criticize and accuse and seek revenge,
and instigate terror with full will and full intent of good-civil judgment.
All this within a collectively condemning climate rooted within our either-or egocentric
anthrocentric
ethnocentric
culture-centric
language-centric walls against each other,
due to enculturing histories
of and for building mutual-immunity walls against each other.

Our economic and political power-relational issues stem
from inadequately investing our resources to uncover the abundance of justice,
to use excellent effective, fair, balanced judgment
about our, and other’s ecopolitical choices,
and lack of choices,
good and bad.
We can all do this all day
and continue arriving at entirely redundant and resonant conclusions,
to condemn our own and other’s lack of grace
and/or good karma
and/or positive psychology
and/or emotional balance,
as also co-mentoring, noticing, showing, unveiling,
this same ecological-ecopolitical judgment skill
of both-and WinWin discernment
to work much more efficiently
as a return to a shared ecoconsciousness of co-empathic trust,
that we return to our childhoods
we we knew we were here on Earth
by means of an evolutionary nature/spirit regenerative process
governed more powerfully by cooperative nutritional multi/poly-cultural choices
toward healthy regenerativity
through mutual aid,
support,
caring,
nurturing mercy
than through nature’s WinLose revenge and vengeance myths of mutual condemnation,
disassociations,
immunities,
in short,
the reverse-decompositional pathological condemning view
of our positive health-choiced cooperative ecopolitical vocation
as Earth’s polypathic ecoconsciousness of now,
foreshadowing all regenerations of species and life
on back through our shared DNA/RNA string of collective thermodynamic as ecopolitical balance,
flowing through each co-empathic trusting cell right now,
and soaring at speed of yang/yin-squared fractal light
toward all Earth’s future regenerators of Earth’s ecoconscious regeneration.

How do we best discern the wise ecopolitical judgment of others?
Through their cooperative words
and through their past cooperative nurturing WinWin actions,
or both,
the one about the other,
both-and WinWinning peace with internal/external justice,
together,
healthy ecological economic-valuing mind
with politically wealthy cooperative body.

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Deep Learning Evolution of Learning

From Thomas Kuhn’s “The Road Since Structure,” pp. 225-228, with supplemental commentary in brackets.

Four essential elements of my developed position are…to be found there [in C. G. Hempel, Fundamentals of Concept Formation in Empirical Science]:

scientific [and other language-learning] terms are regularly learned in [positively rewarded] use;

that [fertile, nutritious] use involves the [not dis-ecological] description of one or another [regenerative gestalt-universe subclimate] paradigmatic example of nature’s [experiential landscape of external] behavior;

a number of such examples are required for the [evolutionary rumination, relearning] process to work [principle of polymorphic quasi-redundant reiteration]]

and, finally, when the [acclimation] process is complete, the language or concept learner has acquired not only [teleological, purposive, contextually interdependent] meanings

but also, inseparably [nondually], [ethological, ecological regenerative purpose of nature ourselves] generalizations about nature.

[confluent with larger multicultural, bicameral ecoconsciousness as positively deviant in comparison with a priori consilient network states of comprehending self/other exegetical-interrelational information]

“The [Deep Learning] Theoretician’s Dilemma”…[also referring to Hempel] was how to preserve [sustain] a principled distinction between what he then still called ‘observational’ [experiential, ontological] and ‘theoretical terms’ [explanatory, contextual and teleologically ecological]. When, a few years later still, he began instead to describe the distinction as one between ‘antecedently available terms [variables, rhythms, patterns, relationships, memes, reified nomials, language choices] and those learned together, with[in] a new [reforming, retermed experience repurposing language within its multiculturally natural ecological universe of remembered thought/feeling healthy/pathology experientially fertile optimization] theory, I could see him as having implicitly adopted a developmental [evolving ecologic of ecopolitical truth/beauty/ as health/wealth] historical stance.

But what I primarily owe him [Hempel] is not from the realm of ideas. Rather it is the experience of working [learning] with a philosopher [researcher, explorer, traveler, pilgrim] who cares more about arriving at [ecological] truth than about winning [ecopolitical] arguments.

…[T]he historical [evolutionary] approach I joined in developing owed as much to difficulties encountered by the [uneco]logical-empiricist [dis-integrative, not syncretic, un-unitarian, notnot interdependent, dualistically reified philosophical] tradition as it did to [experiential revolutions within the] history of science [and other forms of transcultural learning].

Carnap emphasized untranslatability [logically incommensurable] as I do…. One language might permit statements that could not be translated into another, but anything properly classified as scientific [ecologically systemic health/pathology confluent, fertile, internal/external landscape consilient] knowledge could be both stated and scrutinized in either language, using the same [multiculturally interdependent numeric-calculating] method and gaining [outcoming] the same [experientially calibrated pattern] result. The factors responsible for the use of one language rather than another were irrelevant both to the results achieved and, more especially, to their [acclimative] cognitive status.

This aspect of Carnap’s position has never been available to me. Concerned from the start with the development of knowledge [language, learning, ecoconsciousness] I have seen each stage in the evolution of a given field as built—not quite squarely—upon its predecessor, [yet also interdependently coincidental bilaterally within an ecopolitical elite population sharing a specialized, reified theoretical gestalt-dialectal ecology] the earlier stage providing the problems, the data, and most of the concepts [exegetically] prerequisite to the emergence of the [revolutioning eisegetical] stage that followed. In addition, I have insisted that some changes in conceptual [interdependent dialectal] vocabulary are required for the assimilation and development of the [newly exegeting] observations, laws, and [permaculturally restabilizing health/pathology] theories deployed in the later [transubstantiation from eisegetical to exegetical] stage (whence the phrase ‘not quite squarely’ above).  Given those beliefs, the process of [small-evolutionary/great-revolutionary] transition from old state to new becomes an integral part of science, a process that must be understood by the [permacultural, multicultural] methodologist concerned to analyze the [nutrient] cognitive [and affective] basis for [healthy-fertile] scientific beliefs. Language change is cognitively [and affectively, nondual ecological effectively] significant for me as it was not for Carnap.

[Language listening to learn ecologically confluent relationships, correlations, positive and negative, follows a dialectal ecologically-confluent positive harmonious past-power path through co-empathic trusting exegetical-ionic-iconic DNA thermodynamic experience of sustained ecotherapeutic cognitive/affective balance v. cognitive/affective emergent dissonance. Whether paradigmatic climate change is Business As Usual slow-emergence, or revolutionary, whether evolutionary or revolutionary, depends on whether one notices day-to-day emergence or whether one notices great transitional ectosymbiotic emergence of positive relationship-building between two or more dialectally interdependent paradigms suddenly, as in Buber’s “Aha!” gestalt, is a difference between bicameral aptic normal deductive-dominant learning, and bicameral polypathic synaptic learning to learn cognitive-affective ecopolitical healthy/pathology nondual tipping point consilience, suddenly surprisingly reconciling the previously known only as incommensurable, for the first synaptically blissful resolving, resonant, now-fully-present time.

Endosymbiotic evolution is our emerging internal integrity potential for great ectosymbiotic revolutions, actively-mutually-engaging, co-present, full-ecoconsciously abundant, timeless climate of interdependent co-relation.  Atheism of  (0)-sum economic Empty is to normal science as panentheism of organic Interdependence is to (0)-soul bilateral political revolutions of syncretic learning to re-search as re-listen more effectively, more nutritiously, more therapeutically, more happily, more positively, more prosperously, more fertilely, together.]

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Gaia’s Humane Rights to/for/of Healthy Climates

In 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
proposing Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human [Climate] Adaptation.

He closed his invitation to show up as follows
[with my own updating Earth Climate Rights commentary in brackets]:

We have perhaps what Sir Geoffrey Vickers has called
an ‘ecology of ideas.’
[a health v pathology ecology,
climates of and for ideas,
learning and unlearning climates for therapeutic adaptive/maladaptive purposes].

If it be true that certain people are specially gifted
in the [polypathic multicultural] art of acting upon complex [eco]systems
with [empathic trust/mistrust balancing] homeostatic
or ecological
characteristics,
and that these people do not [co]operate
by spelling out the interaction of all relevant [health/pathology] variables,
then these people must use some inner [health of] ecology
of ideas as an [ecosystemic] analogic model.
(By ‘ideas’ I mean thoughts, premises, affects,
[feelings, attendance, listening, relational, empathies]
perceptions of self, etc.)

But if this [empathic trust/mistrust] skill is, in some sense,
really an art [of ego/eco-listening]
then it is possible that the inner ‘ecology of ideas’ is a close synonym
of what might also be called aesthetic [affective-cognitive] sensibility [and dissonance].

These notions suggest, finally, that there may be another approach
to the problems of a Theory of
[Therapeutic EarthRights-HumaneRights] Action.

As I write this, on November 5, 1968, the nation is voting to choose a President
and the voters are faced by alternative candidates–
none of whom even claims to have either [ecological] aesthetic
or [ecopolitical] biological insight
into the [empathic healthy trust] affairs of a large [cooperative] nation.

Be that as it may,
I suggest that before we proceed to a consideration of theories of [therapeutic] action,
we should devote some time to the question of aesthetic [ecosystemically healthy-wealth] determinism [favoring power-with over power-over resolutions]
for the following reasons:

a. It is conceivable that there is a whole other order of determinative [health/pathology] factors,
to ignore which would be as fatal as to ignore the homeostatic [co-empathic trust/mistrust] aspect of biological [nutritional-digestive] systems.

b. It is possible that the aesthetic [truth-as-beauty, symmetry, affinitive proportion] approach,
with its special emphasis upon [natural] patterns
and the [emergent] modulation of [ecotherapeutic] patterns,
may be a natural development out of mem-theory
and 0-graphs [fractal, 4D binary bilateral metric information prime empty-climate, vacuum of nutritional information, ‘wallpaper’ or dialectally folding/unfolding landscape group/game theory reiterative-revolving systemic]

c. It is possible that the [co-empathic] aesthetic is in some [bicameral] way
closely related to
or [and] derivative from the cybernetic [genetic-binary, reiteratively double-bind bilateral balancing tree-root nutritional health structure].

d. It is possible that the aesthetic approach may provide short cuts to the [deductive-only] evaluation
and [Left v RightBrain] criticism of plans for [therapeutic] action.

e. It is possible that [basic] aesthetic [empathic trust] perception may be characteristic of [ecologically healthy bicameral-balancing] human beings,
so that action plans which ignore this characteristic
of [Left-Right equivalent] human perception
are unlikely to be [power-with, cooperatively, struggling with as not against] adopted,
and even unlikely to be [cooperatively] practicable
[because not supported by ecopolitical social-cultural dominant structures
despite evolutionary history
as ethological witness to mindbodies of and for health regeneration].

f. It is possible that aesthetic computation and aesthetic creativity are subject to pathological disturbance [mindbody illness]
Certainly creative and artistic processes are in part determined by epoch
and [Left and/or RightBrain dominance and/or equivalent] cultural milieu [climate].
It is likely therefore
that pathologies of culture will produce [ecopolitical] pathologies
of [ugly, terrifying, vacuous, nihilistic] aesthetic perception
and [reductive, seductive iconic] monsters of [mistrusting and ambiguous] aesthetic creation.

g. But, conversely, if the aesthetically [oppositional bipolar either-or Left v appositionally dipolar both-and Right] monstrous
be symptomatic of cultural [ecopolitical climate] pathology,
then we have to remember that in all such [sacred ecosystemic] cases,
the symptom is the [pathology] system’s attempt to cure itself [ourselves].
The creation of the appropriate [evil-reverses-live, terrorist, abusive, neglectful] monstrosities might therefore be a component in corrective [purgative] action.
It is possible that some contemporary [subclimates for nutritional landscape optimization permacultural] artists
are actually doing [multiculturally inclusive healthy] things
which we in our conference hope to plan to do
[both economically and politically re-acclimative volution].

For these and related reasons,
I think that we should take a good look at the [climatic] problems
of [empathic trust/mistrust] aesthetics
before we go on to the [ecological] problems of [therapeutic climate] action.

[With Bateson’s late premillennial concerns,
we continue to engage our Left-Right bicameral mindbody balancing
equivalent powers within ecological ethics
and ecosystemic aesthetics
felt and learned and exegeted
through our ecopolitically cooperative therapeutic choices
of and for multiculturally polypathic democracies
of and for Earth as Humane-Home Sacred Rights
both within as without Ta(o)-Zen Centric
MultiCultural Climate-Health Landscapes.]

 

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Creative Climates for Thinking Feeling Healthier

We are each a new way of bilateral becoming and thinking
about what a mind with body is,
where these are headed,
individually,
and as a part.

Thinking about what embodied consciousness is
and where,
in what stable climates of opportunity,
and which unstable subclimates of risk,
enculturing new ways of bilateral becoming
what our Earth’s mindbody ecosystem is,
and where,
in what universal temporal revolving seasonal climate of Earth,
enculturing timeless days of light and dark,
long before years of warm and cold
and planets sprouting ecosystemic networks
of open-interdependent ergodic universal climate,
binomial space with bilateral-functioning time emerging
each of our light’s ethological DNA/RNA emergent enriching string,
umbilical cord,
navel,
embryonic womb root system of form with nutritional function,
is yet incarnating
and from where,
from each of us co-arising balance without
dualdark co-gravitating within
dipolar prime relational
(0)-soul as sum,
as prime relational core climate CoMessianic-Tao.

Humanity’s place within this ecosystemically enculturing internal landscape
has become traditionally told
as one inter-networked mandala,
a sacred organic-fertile healthy-positive, deviantly revolutionary
regenerational landscape.
Stuff of and for and with and in Permacultural Design
through our DNA Holistic-Integral ReDevelopment.

We are still working out
how we have viralized victimization
and criminalization
and other negatively deviant deformations of socio-eco-political pathology,
like ignorance with prejudice,
hatred of Other with racism,
totalitarian egocentric megalomanic paranoia with terrorism,
anti-ecological intent with overly-competitive economic norms for and of Earth Nature/Spirit Justice,
ethological error with bad teleology concerning remaining issues
of (0)-sum ecopolitical health,
public health issues confusing humane sexuality and culture with self-slavery into indentured servitude of wealth
that does not rhyme with health.

We are still working on over-commodified norms about EarthTribe’s Commons,
the desecration of humane-divine dignity,
the desecration of our Earth Home,
for some a Gaia God/dess,
for others Prime Relational consort of FireGod’s dipolar co-arising radiant bliss,
producer of all Earth’s biosystemic nature-spirit organic species,
currently existing, yes,
but also emerged through root ecosystems of health-performing Elder ecopolitical health-wealth matriarchs and patricians,
native medicinals of earth and water,
fire radiating revolving cycling flames through therapeutic tunneling air.

Developmental intelligence refracted through RNA’s nature/spirit health-values
to process and remember,
reweaving time’s seasonal open-systemic
interdependently self-reflected light.

In bilateral thought
as in bicameral ecoconsciousness,
LeftBrain’s either/or bipolar oppositionals
learn to ego/ecobalance with
RightBrain’s reverse-temporal
both/and dipolar appositional wu wei climate of sacred co-presence,
Tipping Point positive abundance defaults
of cognitive/affective confluence,
which is all that pathology does not co-arise,
which is cognitive-affective dissonance, stress, ecopolitical suffering.

In Systems Process Theory,
as in Permaculture Design,
any unit (landscape, subclimate)
containing and retaining feedback integrity
of a streaming river,
radiant/co-gravitating light,
religioning sacred multicultures,
is systemically competent to process
and retain bilateral temporally-emergent positive cause
through double-negatively effective co-feeding information.

To our Right BrainBody ecosystemic incoming processors,
our Interior MindBody Landscape
functions like an intricate liturgically sacred mandala
holding interdependent Both/And polarities within a cooperative ecopolitical network
simultaneously framed, co-incident,
with LeftBrain’s emerging ecological networks of diverse 0 dimensions:
metric linear cause/effect past/future one dimensional,
graphic one through three space dimensional-static,
0-Centric alpha/omega Tipping Point diastolic-dimensional universe of polynomials,
4D geometric interactive information/exformation,
feedback regarding exterior community economic transactions of healthy/pathological value,
with everything in-between either extremely idealistic label,
with and without political power now,
in the past, stronger or weaker and why?
to project future CQI health-wealth trends.

Egos are interdependent ecosystemic units,
as are species,
but of a higher exegetically ecological type,
evidence of past evolving successes,
as are DNA with RNA transubstantiating Elder species,
still encrypted to this day
within each sacred mindbody ecosystem.

Climatic polarization of opinions
between those who perceive sacred ecosystems
where others see, more reductively,
linear equations and sequences of kosmic-karmic cause and effect,
secular,
reified academic ecosystemic co-arising evolutionary ethology,
currently emerging a more replete, culturally resonant
(0) soul Process GroupSystemic Prime Fractal/Octave-Lattice Network
emerging positive-deviant frame-closure revolutions
defining Basic Nutritional Co-Present EcoPolitical TrendFunctions
as Binomial-Binary 4D WinWin Gaming Balance Theory
for Regenerative Optimization of economicHealth/political EarthRights Wealth,
every philanthropic heart’s ultimate rich-deep wet soulful dream.

Bicamerally organizing humane intelligence,
still remains confluent with multiculturally accessible ontologies
in which contrasting poles of interior mental life
are teleologically assumed to be more highly positive-interactive when therapeutic,
and each internal dipolarity actively “both-anding” promotes the other
under confluent,
peaceful,
healthy states of mind with body.

Each of us walking/talking biosystems
contains an internally sacred landscaped sub-climate,
by no means monocultural unless nearly dead of exhaustion,
and more dipolar co-arising
toward Tipping Points
toward diastatic health optimization.

 

 

 

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Just Say Yes

Just say yes
to not yet gone
not yet going against your way
not yet becoming distrusted distasteful dissonance.

Those of us more blessed in the Positive Psychology department,
and yet perhaps all of us somewhat more opaquely,
enjoy qualities of life that we all do want,
and an equal number of negative appositional qualities
that we would do better without.
These are, by definition,
and by comparison with their more positive counterparts,
pathological,
as confluence is to discover dissonance,
as integrity grows to uncover late-great decompositional transitions,
as healthy climates recover from comparatively compromised unhealthy subclimates.

We all want more beauty
so less ugly.
We want more good
and less bad.
More truth
so less equivocating untruths.
We all want more healthy places and spaces and times
and paradigms
so less pathology of mind and heart and soul and body,
distresses of internal climates.

We all want cooperative economic and political relationships
and less rabid competing and terror
distrust and hatred.
We all want more power-with
so less power-over;
or do we?

We all want neither too much
nor too little.
We all want our self-optimizing time delivered neither too late
nor too soon.
These function as a prime-relational fractal of temporal double-bind,
wu-wei Tao Tipping Point
of (0)Zen mutually shared SpaceTime wants,
with their counterpart not-wants,
natures both kind and unkind humored.

We all want more peaceful order
so less stressful chaos now,
and to stay with us forever,
neither too soon nor too late,
but just rightly positive balanced
on tipping point of eternal now.

We all want
not too soon with not too late
quality of time,
as not too much and not too little Basic Nutritional Space
within Earth’s timeless co-present sacred place.

Polynomial values = notnot polypathic disvalues
as YangSpace = notnot YinTime wu-wei balance.

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Maps and Organic SpaceTime Territories

Positive mental map messages
contain no more or less effective information
than appositional negatives notnot.
Both language map
and spacetime’s notnot body referents
ecosystems of organic binomial life
loving and leaving days and time and lives
changing our collective DNA map
as mind experiences and dreams and imagines
our better richer sacred liturgy
fending off worse notnot quite balanced resonant rituals
unfolding Earth’s regeneration story.

Organic messengers passed down through all of Noah’s Ark
flowing in and through our ocean rivers
of fertile blood and brains,
with ionic balancing neural root systems
connecting
integrating
reweaving everything as also notnot anything,
every organic being,
every place on and in this referent Earth
ours to love as re-dis-cover.

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CareFueled Causes

You are charged with a misdemeanor,
based on witnesses
who thought they head you saying you were leaving
even though you knew
you dinged this red truck’s door.

I know they saw me like that
but that’s because they could not hear
I was the driver ahead of them
holding out a $5 or $10
or even a $20,
if that was the least I had,
to any one beside the road
wearing a self-made person sign:
Homeless
Please help me.

I never pass these opportunities to help.

You see I have an oldest son
now twenty-one
who is not quite right
and tries his best
but finding and keeping a peaceful train of thought,
much more a job,
is hard for him
and so he stays where he may be welcome
despite what he can ill afford
to rest on other’s dime and time.

I never pass a chance to help
when need for help is obvious
as the tears we face
when humanity feels disgraced,
effaced by race,
knowing only left behind
to do the best they can
to ask us to do our best, we can,
to help when they approach us
with life’s nutritional concerns.

I make it my business to always try to help
when someone’s in our mess.
It would be too out of character
to know me as these have heard,
doing my best to avoid
a dinged your door responsibility,
because if a mess I caused
I had no interest to not confess
and then open my eager to be warmed wallet,
already too long-suffering of neglect.

But I do confess,
these are all my messes,
and yours as well.
We have too often acclimated
to this culture,
where we do not actively care
for one another,
and so not so much for ourselves either.

I hope to treat each mess we cause
as gently and lovingly as I so hope
someone right now will find the faith to see
within my homeless not quite right son’s asking eyes:
Would you help me,
us?
Do you know yet,
already,
we are in this together,
or we are out to fall and lose apart?

If you see him
let him go
do not hold him
by his toe
be not mean or bad in return.
Try with me to relearn
he’s done his almost best
to get it more almost right
next time.

So feel free to lavish praise
on how close he might have come
to doing better.
This helps him, and you,
feel and remember better
and perhaps even rather less than worse.

It would be my misdemeanor
to not do my best
wherever I see our mess.
I confess
I cannot see me in this way.
These watchers and listeners and speakers against me
must misunderstand,
yet perhaps that’s all to life’s good.
Makes me wonder
how they would see me
if they had recognized that guy in front,
stopped to say yes to each homeless mess,
could we all better take time enough
to just say yes
to benefits of doubt?

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Junk Mail Again

Wow, look, we can save $500!

I wonder how much we must invest
to generate such savings.

Oh, I see.
We need only buy a new or used car,
which, of course, as everyone knows,
is something that we truly truly need,
like a thneed.
Yet another car or truck
to insure and register and feed full of fuel
and maintain and repair.

And don’t forget those exhaustive system screenings
to be sure you are not doing more than your fair share
to poison our over-exhausted and under-fed air.

Seems like too high a price to save so little.
I think we shall pass
on this less than overwhelming offer.

What’s next?
Oh yes, the cell phone bill.
I wonder how they will help us save money this month.
I could use a direct line to God
about all this junk mail
and these bills
for services not so generously,
or even cooperatively, delivered.

I could save a lot of money
by not talking to anyone
and not going anywhere,
although I could not swear I have been going from here to there
for quite some time now,
and I could confine my thirsts to tap water,
which does not cost so awfully much
compared to cell phone liquidity.

But, to really save time and money
I would make a long-term commitment
to this reclusive lifestyle,
and downsize to an old geezer tricycle
with a cargo basket on the front,
and a Slow Moving Vehicle sign strapped onto my back.

Children going by would suspect me of false advertising:
Mom, look, he isn’t moving at all.
Is he for target practice?…
Oh Mom, how could you possibly have missed him,
you drove right by,
his cap still flies,
carried by the wind
of our cadillac of sales.

Yet false advertising has itself become culturally addictive.
So much easier than owning up to what we really have to bargain-basement sell.
Which is nothing, I think?

Mom, shouldn’t he be wearing black?
And shouldn’t he have a long straggling grey beard
and black brimmed hat
and not that University of Michigan ball cap.
That’s not right at all,
that whole situation of maladaptive addiction.
Better call the police,
the crazies got off pathology’s reservations again.

I suppose it would be maladaptively psycho
to save all that much money,
and for what new or better fed addictions?
A person can only eat so much ice cream
without developing permanent runs,
and what else would I want to buy
with all that saved up money?

Regardless, to really really save money and time
it would help so much to know what for,
to what other alternative investments.

Divestments of habitual climate challenging addictions,
like anger management,
require much less raw will power-over
short-term thinking ego’s autonomic habits
of mind and body,
when floating in new rivers of healthier adaptations
to Earth’s resonant climatic opportunities
with ever greater power-with warmth,
invitation,
grace resetting kosmic karma’s sights
from addiction within culture’s BusinessAsUsual pathologies
in favor of Earth’s felt and believed
beautiful polypathic truths
of timeless climate health,
yin within as yang without,
anima’s spirited love-invoking
animus vestments
of co-incorporated ecopolitical power.

Oh yes, I know,
let me fully invest in a new Recreational Vehicle
to drive and fly away from all this savings
of self and other and Earth,
never planning to return to this asceticism
without aesthetics of co-invested,
though curiously humored, pilgrims.

Looking for ever renewing ways
to save $500.

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Fugitives of Justice

Thank god I finally was caught and cited
for doing something that I didn’t do.

Just think how much worse I would feel
if I actually had done it,
as I have done so many stupid thoughtless things
without getting caught,
at least not by the judicial system.

I hope it all balances out
and at least I can face the music
knowing of my innocence this time,
and continue hiding all my negligent guilts from other times,
failing to read bedtime stories when they could have helped,
failing to remember to touch with kindness
especially when hurts could thereby be healed.

We sometimes confuse reasonable human error,
perhaps negligent in the absence of other stressful distractions,
with deliberately choosing to respond to damage
with full-willed intent,
to actively evade responsibility for damage,
for life’s victimizing owies.

And sometimes our front line justice system,
we have both inherited and created
to leave for our children to suffer against
and rejoice with,
further fuels this confused misunderstanding
confuses poor communication and human error
with taking high risk evasive action
far outweighing positive,
far less time and money invested,
opportunities to act
in a more socially acceptable spirit of cooperation
by exercising a basic Golden Rule orientation
to self-with-other governance.
When this happens, we evade credibility,
to too quickly embrace criminalizing responsibility,
perhaps due to our own overly-paranoid imaginations.

Communication.
Economic and political life is all about misunderstood messages
and sending out clear, consistent, redundantly positive messages.

Would any right mind,
when asked by a witness to a car door ding,
“You’re going to leave your number on their windshield aren’t you?”
would anyone fully insured,
totally sober
with a pen and paper in the car,
truly respond to that question with a “no”
and then drive calmly and slowly off,
leaving plenty of time for multiple witnesses to get a plate number?

Maybe.
Maybe if he had looked at the cherry red truck
and could not see damage
that portended a visit for needed cosmetic repair.

Then again,
maybe the witness only asked this question
in the silence of her own imagination
or out loud but at a level of discreet volume
restricted so only she and those with her could hear.
After all,
you don’t want to confront a crazy stranger
in a busy parking lot
who just might need some help
coping with his psychotic daughter
having an ill-timed manic episode,
laughing hysterically while blasting Ella Fitzgerald
singing “Love For Sale” across the medical center’s parking lot
right?
Or wrong?
Or maybe something in between?

Who are the victims here
and is there even one that could not have been made stronger
and healthier
with and by a stronger spirit of cooperation?
Thereby making it even more likely
that next time,
next place,
next cherry red truck,
next victims of life’s little transitional challenges
will get things better,
rather than climatically worse.

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