If to be
is to communicate
Perhaps
to be healthy
is to communicate
with deep listening
and nonviolent speaking
regenerative integrity.
Both secular and sacred
natural and spiritual
scientific and inter-religious
universal truths and unitarian trust
Faithful to mind and loving with body
ego and ecosystemic
rational-compassionate
Either/Or-Both/And
bicameral
bipartisan
Taoist
NonDualist
Not-Not Zeroist
strength/flow
space/time balance.
MindBody notices feelings
EgoMe-EcoWe deign ordain
to listen sacredly inside
And consider speaking up
kindly and calmly outside
about how I feel
+Healthy=InterDependently Wealthy
original earth-tribe design
Is what’s left
when you subtract
Lose/Lose mortally diseased,
and/or win/lose uneased,
anxious
stressed in-between
by uncertain climate healthcare
survivalist or thrivalist choice
of voice conditions.
Heart and lungs feeling
EcoWe intuiting
inviting panentheistic peak experiences
Reminding bicameral mindbody
why MeWe find
deep sacred safety
where we uncover wide polycultural democracy,
compassion,
multicultural
inter-religious gratitude
for EarthDay/Night
Light/Power
Space/Time
SkyYang/RevolvingEarth Yintegrity
OutSide/Inside
Precessive/Repressive [Buckminster Fuller]
Dipolar co-arising
StrongMind/FlowEmBodied
MonoTheistic/PanEntheistic
Universal/Unitarian
1/0 double-binary
co-empathic
Nature/Spirit
nondualistic bilateral
liberally conserving gifts.
A Commentary on
“A Note on the [Patriarchal-Capitalist] Treatment
of Plant Names”
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, p. 385
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS:
INDIGENOUS WISDOM,
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE,
AND THE [SACRED] TEACHINGS
OF PLANTS
I too often accept
with nary a LeftBrain dominant thought
that our verbalized labels
for individual EgoPersons
are RoyallyCAPITALIZED.
To write
“Marvin Appletree”
would be to strip my tree
of His/Her sacred status
as an EarthTribe indigenous
child of MotherEartha
long before my own anthrosupremacist
sense of owning Real Estate
and all the Othered squatters
breathing anonymously on It.
It would be LeftBrain laughable
to write “Mosquito”
if this were in reference
to a flying insect,
any non-individuated
yet potentially annoying
predative Other.
LeftBrain Capitalization
conveys a certain Either/Or divisive distinction,
difference,
pejorative dissociation,
The anthrosupremacist position
of humans
normatively communicating outside
our sacred Grand Canyon spaces
and our own Creations
and our own proprietary Estates
esteemed private and corporate ownership
within a Patriarchal hierarchy
of CAPITALIZED Beings.
Economists have widely adopted
the win/lose Capitalism convention
of not sufficiently capitalizing
investing in the common sacred values
of organic plants
and animals
unless they are included
in a HumanNature narrative
for an official sacred space
place LeftBrain labeled
Holy Spirit Natured Sanctuary.
Thus, the first blossoms
of my favorite RightBrain cooperative gift:
Spring bursting flowers forth
in sacred organic Forests
Are LeftBrain written
as bloodroot
and the pink star
of a California Yosemite National Park
tiger lilly.
This seemingly natural
non-spiritual LeftBrain normative
verbal rulemaking
in Either EgoMine/OrAlienOther labeling
expresses deeply held competitive win/lose assumptions
about HumanNature monopolized
monotheistic
dualistic exceptionalism,
That ego-privileged speakers
and writers
are valued sacredly different
and monotheistically better
than other EarthTribe
panentheistic
Holy Nature/Spirited species
acting as our Othered
also-ran un-invested backdrop,
Mere organic environment
with only the Truth
and Beauty
we so royally assign
on our magnanimous best healthy days
and benign wealthy nights
to revere our Sacred Elders.
Indigenous wisdom
recognizes
reconnects
re-ligions
polycultural co-relationship
of all interdependent organic Beings
As equally 7th Principle
unitarian sacred
and ecopolitically
universally important
RightBrain imported
transpositioned
communioned
co-passionate
Not in a Patriarchal hierarchy
of ecopolitical scarcity
to merely win/lose survive
otherwise degenerative lose/lose nihilistic
genocidal
ecocidal outcomes
But a PolyCultural Blue/Green Global Communion
eco-revolving gifts
spiraling circles
of EarthTribe Left/Right balancing life
includes RightBrain emotive love impressions.
So, in my LeftBrain universal ego-narrative
as in my RightBrain sacred
unitarian love life,
I break,
disconnect to reconnect,
without ego-LeftBrain partisan blinders,
to write
and speak
and sing
and dance freely
With my MarvinGaye AppleTree,
with they WiseHeron
and Boisterous Walrus
spirited natures
when I value a panentheistic
ego-person,
human Holy NatureSpirited,
or not;
And sing Health and Safety
Truth and Beauty
bicameral secular/sacred Anthems
of EarthTribe maples,
herons,
and bicameral balancing humans
When I value a LeftBrain
EitherMe/OrWe category
AND a RightBrain
holonically
multiculturally
polyculturally
poyphonically
polypathically felt
polyvagal complexly abundant
co-passionate win/win
Yang-strong/yintegral-flow
universal/unitarian
secular/sacred reconception
of consumer commodities
as productive
meaningful
mindful BiPartisan Gifts
Voting by sacred presence
for resilient EarthTribe
Left-healthy
and Right sacred safety
Democratic recycling
revolving
dynamic breathing in from above
as out from below
co-passion balancing
MotherEartha energy.
In Shaker Heights, Ohio,
founding fathers co-invested in:
Change doesn’t happen
without planning
This, despite
unstraight
unwhite
unmale volatile experiences
feeling sometimes victimized
and sometimes blessed
by unexpected weather transitions,
despite feeling like vulnerable chameleons,
despite feeble farming
in narrowing spaces
between floods and famine,
despite more often feeling:
Plans were made to be changed,
a euphemism for:
Your plans are disempowered
to become downsized,
disinvited,
excised.
Planning change
feels as privileged as LeftBrain dominance
which need not pause to listen
and remember
more fear-inducing personal experiences
Violent change predicting health
and wealth losses,
wild absence of planned control
like HIV
and COVID-19,
global pandemics
and climate change
erasing EarthTribe’s
presumed polyculturally healthy
future symbiotic ego/eco-systems.
If sinister change,
including global pandemics,
feel suspiciously planned to you
then please rediscover
your LeftBrain anxious conspiracy theories
as a weakness
Rooted in Straight-White-Male
incorporated executive academic privilege
to have disproportionate learning resources
to research,
and plan more exclusive progress
in your family
and work
and economic
and political history
More successful
than chronic disenfranchisement,
monocultural marginalization,
psychological depression,
feminist political repression,
economic suppression,
win/lose competitive corporate colonizing
oppression–
all tragic unprogressive forms,
not therapeutic changing flows,
of mundane traumatic pathology.
Change
for LeftBrain dominant speakers,
does not always sound like
Progress
to RightBrain prominent listeners.
Ambiguity about personal capacity
to empower therapeutic change
can also be heard
when I “deserve”:
to stay home
(paid or unpaid?)
when I’m sick
to give voice
(listened to or ignored?)
to my transparent truth
to be housed,
institutionalized,
hospitalized,
incorporated,
resourced,
employed by patriarchal capitalists,
healthier,
loved for who I could become,
with explicit contractual conditions
for rewarded positive
(more than punished negative)
regard.
If we have too seldom deserved
merits
more than demerits
in our own salvation/demonization
invitation/extrication experience,
then we grow quick to notice
“change” comes in positive
and negative future plans
As “progress”
can be progressive cancer
and climates of disruption
more than polyculturally inclusive choice
of love
and not fear,
of compassion
and not violence
For too many of Those People,
For global EarthTrauma
climate change,
what follows Patriarchal-Capitalist plans
for next quarter’s progress
is frightening absence
of eco-political integrity,
Business As Planned Usual
degenerating
toxic chaos.
Noetic integrity
of LeftHemisphere verbal dominance
represents polypathic resilience
With poetic empathy
of RightHemisphere nonverbal harmony
co-arising polyphonic resonance
Together contributing to our
ecologically enlightened,
politically empowered,
bilaterally co-engaged worldview
of EarthTribe fabled sentience
and pre-historic experience
Just as a deep interpersonal connection
of deep noetic understanding
occurs when an individual person feels
what another person feels,
When sacred organic individuals
know ourselves as more than merely secular
dissociated yet sacredly incorporated
experiences of communion
more than merely competitive
win/lose managing to survive,
commodified by elite investors,
owned by struggle,
used by a runaway supremacist system,
rented for capital-driven purposes
consumed with getting ahead.
By analogical comparison
poetic RightHemisphere prominence
of IndividualYang identity
within social Yintegrity
actively seeks
and thereby finds
deep democratic interspecies dialogical connections,
reverse historical reconnections
And noetic polypathic understanding
that a humane person,
physically organic
with global muticultural health intention
to reactivate historical multi-regenerations
of deep sacred learning,
holistically win/win incorporated,
reconnected,
indigenously religioned,
feels what another neurosensory organic creation
re-creationally feels
both RightHemisphere resonant harmony
and LeftHemisphere resilient integrity,
both sacred
and secular,
both flowing cosmic interrelationship
and strong bilateral
ego/eco-systemic
noetic/poetic
polypathic/polyphonic
bicameral integrity.
Like Truth Speak to Power
Singing LeftBrain EnLightenment
speaking MuseLyrical RightBrain
CoEmpowerment
Grows LeftBrain deductively radiant
professional corporate knowledge
of resonant RightBrain inductive
flowing BiCameral CoPassion
Moving,
erupting,
engaging
musiculminating
Grown and woke green co-invested
cooperatively panentheistic
holy indigenous Nature/Spirited Wisdom
polyculturally resonant
HealthMuse/WealthSystemic
synergetic corporate
ecopolitical
ecofeminist power analysis
for feeding and watering
therapeutic full-sensory
deep-learning
non-violent resonant communicating
wellsung and health-safety polyculturing
sacred muse corporate environments
of love in-vested resilient mental/physical
deep listening
ego/eco-systemic health care restorative
corporate polycultural co-remediation.
As Serotonin
invites co-arising
Dopamining
As Sugar
engage
without confronting
by co-balancing
Phosphates
As YangStrength
copassions
YintegralFlow
As Testosterone
Full Climaxes
e-reflect
Estrogenic EmptySoul Wisdom
co-resonant musing experience
As EcoFeminist Power Experience
speaks to PanEntheistic Sacred Truth
sacredly resonant MuseMemories
As individual corporate climax
ebbing feelings
invite more contextually restorative
therapeutic co-invited dipolar
music
massage
movement
mindful
non-violent communion
corporate healing healthcare
muse-empowering
not necessarily LeftBrain dominant,
Inclusively multicultural mediating
intersectional
dialectical
behavioral
musically resonant
resilient EarthHealth Care
restorative justice
nonviolent
compassionate deep listening
and learning
pedagogical and therapeutic
health-empowerment services
professional/personal
political/economic co-invested
compassionate
democratic healthcare
multiculturally co-therapeutic
resonant communication
with EarthTribe systemic SacredMusic
ecosystemically indigenous
panentheistic
therapeutically resilient h
ealth/wealth safety
outcomes
for cooperative
client-student MuseTherapists.
Please don’t share this
with your straight white monotheistic worshiping
friends and family,
But, just between us panentheistic ecofeminists,
sometimes,
not often enough,
we would be healthier and wealthier
to reflect together upon
Internal polytheistic integrity communications,
bilaterally organic both/and dipolar
internal/external co-operations
of thoughts and feelings
co-arising indigenous natural/spiritual wisdom
Reverberating copassionate PolyCulturing Communion Voices
of nonviolently communicating
integrally healthy choices
among intersectionally regenerative wealth
Like polypathic Green EcoWomanist CoOperatives
of and for
EarthTribe’s healthy ecological
joyful care,
Like MotherBirds
singing and dancing
in April love
with win/win attached young polyculturing grace
BlueLight inspired above
GreenPowering yintegral inter-connected
re-ligiously re-investing
Yintegrity Elder RightBrain EarthEmpowering
WinWin prevocal NonZero SoulFelt resumption
with collaterally invested Yang newer LeftBrain
EgoIdentified MonoTheistic
Win/Lose ZeroSum soulless assumptions
BiCamerally CoLateral
BiNomially PolyMathic
Taoistic NonZeroism,
not not Turquoise spiral dynamically,
full-spectrum ZeroSoul Zoned
for radically democratic
Win/Win bilateral energy
Purposely,
deliberately,
deductively,
sorting and labeling with Either/Or individuating stamps
of healthy rational exalted approval
or unsafe chaotic intuitive disapproval
Meaningfully mythical nuance
of inductive rebounding narratives
inviting ecowomanist nurturing feelings
interdependently
transparently
vulnerably synthesizing
all those Received View Patriarchal Capitalist
Win/Lose presorts and relabels
of PatriarchalCapitalism’s Straight White
Monotheistic privileged Godly omnipotence
as Earth’s universal Capital best economic
and political systemic narrative
Overfeeding the strong
and underinvesting in Others
sinful,
weak,
disproportionately not PatriarchalCapital StraightWhite
orthodox thinkers
ignoring our own dismissed privileged state
of EarthMother Wombed grace
Preceding any cognitive awareness
of God as Patriarchal Capitalist StraightWhite Creator
in and outside orthodox Win/Lose survivalist secularizing times
for punishing panentheistic goddess win/win experiences
felt biosystemically
Long before LeftBrain dominant speakers
and early advocates
for giving sacramental voice to something
Other than all those endless,
and did I mention frivolous?
Bird songs
and awkward sexual mating rituals
and more XX v XY-rated
explicit sensory-neural
dopamining and seratonic climaxing misbehaviors
EgoLogically concluding
jealous WhiteFather God
created natural addictive sexuality not as sacred
when outside anthrosupremacist experience
Which remains integrally divine
as long as it’s missionary baptizing
positive worship position
remains strictly Male Over Female,
White over Other,
Straight over kinda’ queer non-binary
Judgment justified by win/lose
Either/Or EgoSupreme vengefully angry/fearful tough-love
unusually necessary punishment
of PolyCulturing Communion
QueerWomanist demons
Demonstrating upstarts
and outcoming green re-connected,
re-ligioned,
co-empathic nonverbal homeopathic wombs
Incubating Other multicultural seed-bearers
including NonBinary in-betweens,
like Both/And intuited dipolar feelings
of nuanced complexity
hypothetical curiosity
rebirth of polyculturing communion courage
empowering GreenEarth
and enlightening BlueSky
ecopolitically resilient
when Whole SacredEarth bilaterally realistic
Win/Win restorative birdsong kindness
multicultural
polycultural green communication,
nonviolent cooperativity
for nutritional neuro-sensory systemic outcomes
and health empowerment
and wealth enlightenment,
bicamerally balancing
health education
deep listening intersectionality
That dare not speak
our restorative justice ecofeminist name
with our straight white monotheistic worshiping
patriotic
patrilinear
patrimonial friends and family.
In complicated relationships,
and complex story telling
with regeneratively developing
and degeneratively undeveloping characters,
Personalities with powers to inflict harmful
punishment,
and healing
forgiveness,
Shunning
and harassment
or compassion,
Neglect
and abuse
or solidarity,
Who switches from and
to positive
to negative,
and back again
first
and last
Depends on where and when we choose to begin
our journey down selective memory’s avenue
of speaking and reacting
and not listening and responding,
But this primary choice
of Alpha and Omega point
is further influenced
by what we choose to notice
and assume is perceivable,
malleable,
alive
And what we fail to remember
to reconnect
to return again
to restore
to omit
to set aside
to assume
Among all our political and economic
civil and uncivil history of individual relationships
and family systems
and community networks
and EarthTribe polycultural species
come and gone before
on Earth’s round revolving stages
of unfolding
unraveling
And refolding
reforming
redeeming
rewinding
regenerating
restoring historic healthy relationships.
My roots of Creator worship
are fed and watered
by Creation appreciation
and curiosity
Whether this might also be true
and sometimes disappointingly false
for you
A resonantly sacred
sometimes prophetic
heart
With a resilient
health developing
ecosystemic mind
For whom my tricky part,
or one of many
as I recall…
Furtive sidewind glances
to my youthful left
Where he sat
in his magnificent
thick stacked darkness,
My closet worship thing
is impossible to come out
with perfect timing
with someone I am powerfully,
intoxicatingly, enraptured by
with
within
and preferably not without
Yet have no hope or intention
of ever being naked
or even transparent,
and certainly not vulnerable,
within his sight and hearing.
If said out loud,
then unveiled too soon
to not cause unwanted predative
seductive concerns.
If not said too soon
then inevitably disclosed too late
to retain resonant
and resilient trust
No hidden agendas,
no closet colonizing cases,
no aging platonic relationships
continuing to work
and play better
in just right silence
of unseen
unheard
unfelt
untouched emotions
without attaching motions
Back through roots of Creator worship
fed and watered
by Creation appreciation
and thick stacked curiosity.
Moving out feels much sadder
than moving in, more gladder–
which is poor grammar
for severance of love’s embodied glamour.
Packing up
feels more like packing in
and down,
cutting ties with my own stage,
this playful working space,
for everyday self
and other witnessing life
love
hate
joy
anger
courage
fear
healing
suffering
Not a fabulously grand stage
but my intimate memories
triggered by damp basement
through dusty attic,
inside resonant
and outside growing resilient,
front yard exhibitions
and back yard more inhibited glimmers
and shivers,
dimmers
and emotive rivers
Moving out
without regard for loss
feels too surgical,
masochistic,
violent,
silent shriek of bad faith
loss,
divestment from personal
political
economic
cultural placement
more sacredly cherished
than secularly calculated
in clock time to move on.
My best therapeutic intent
to know I leave this tiny spot of Earth
at least as healthy
and beautiful
as I have found her
while unpacking
in her abandoned
neglected
bramble thorned sadness
inviting my hope-filled gladness
too few years ago.
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