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Imagine Perfect Thanksgiving

Imagine you live in a daily environment
where and when everything you like
is already yours if you simply ask with gratitude,
and is more frustratingly ungraspable
if you cannot acquire sufficient gratitude to ask.

And, it doesn’t even matter whom you ask.
So you need not be troubled by complexities,
historically epic narratives,
about who owns what,
and who does not,
because everyone you meet knows it is their vocation,
it is among their reasons for being,
to give you whatever you want
whenever you want it with sufficient gratitude.

How might you respond to such power and riches,
to both give and to receive
in an exchange economy
that only values gratitude?

How might we gratuitously seed our fertile black soils
and sparkling clear clean rivers,
and smile back at our perfectly protective blue sky?

I don’t imagine this gratitude power
is magical.
I would not want power to be someone else.
I could not gratefully behold beautiful body
great mind perfection
and also gratefully want to possess that mindbody.

You do have the power to ask them, with gratitude,
to help you see and hear and smell and taste their beauty,
but not to own other organic bodies
without sufficient independent power
to appreciate gratitude of desire

Becoming safely healthy polyvagal powers with others
grateful for our mutually grateful compassion,
vulnerability,
cooperatively trusting co-investments,
because your powers of acquisition
are constrained only by this fair exchange economy
of mutual free-will gratitude.

Imagine, as you mature in wanting control,
the organic chemistry of mutually engaged gratitude
when you were an unwounded infant,
without fear of competitively unresponsive
ingratitude

A polycultural pronoia economy
of positive attitudes
without any learned possibility
of experiencing negative ingratitude.

Imagine how you might have heard:
You can be anyone you desire to become
with sufficient gratitude.
You have cooperative powers
to acquire whatever you can gratefully imagine,
as innocent of longing for the unattainable
as an unborn infant

Imagine, from birth,
this divinely human experience
of continuously
relentlessly
without fear-inducing exception
without blame or shame
without negative judgment
becoming whom
and having whatever we wish for
within an ecology of mutually extending gratitude
perfectly predictable trust
having only felt warmly appreciated mutual regard

Without any magical wonder
or mysterious awe
that you are not discontinuously struggling
sometimes longing
needing to break through dispassionate unpleasant feelings
to become whom and have what other organic beings
do not gratefully wish for you.

Imagine that self-gratitude
automatically generates
re-evaluated other-gratitude,
and vice-versa
self-as-also-other regenerating gratitude.

Imagine you are a healthy organic body
with a wealthy sacred mind
living love where and when
all you can gratefully take in
is ours to give each grateful trusting other.

What happens in your imaginative chemistries
when Win v Lose games of Keep Away
revert into Win-Win nondualistic games of Give Away,
but only when productive for
and consumptive of
co-empathic gratitude?

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The Greatest Nation

Is there a doctor in the house?
A cryptic message from disunited nations,
looking for a credentialed healer
to surgically remove all our tumorous economic issues
and cancerous political tissues.

Those remaining after overdosing on pharmaceuticals
as media marketed
through normal incorporated competitions
for anthropocentric profit

Channels and parties and outlets
fed by gas-fired
over-heated
ballistic powers.

Unfortunately, our national party facilitator
and his great governance guild,
not rapid progressive therapists
but rabid regressive pathologists

Currently mad with apartheid medicines
further degenerating climate illnesses,
building sandbag towers
across drowning coastal cities
Earth’s poisoned oceans are reclaiming as their own,
in Gaia’s perennial rage against narcissistic nations
of irreligious usurpation;
predators, with overpowering mono-cultic intent

A TrumPublican tidal tug of war
between reductive FatherLand
against all-consuming MotherSeas.

But surgical strikes are not best practices
for responding effectively
to already raging and suffered madness,
badness
sadness,
never gladness

Therapeutic nurses
nurture more naturally spirited passions
responsively regenerating public health,
supporting cooperative sacred laws and organic orders

Composting richer climates
for poorer dysfunctional families,
polyculturing appropriate warmth
for optimizing wealthy public-sector inclusive,
not exclusive,
co-governing
multicultural Earth-garden uncovering
helpful-healthy community beloving
our uniting nations’ ecosystemically extending
neurosystemic expansive families

For proactive healthy societies
EarthTribe’s therapeutic guild recommends
co-empathic cooperative trust,
nurturing good political sciences
and natural arts
of healing medicines.

While weaponized surgeons
and authoritarian demented doctors
react against paranoid predative political nightmares,
health-nurturing nurses bring deeply resonant experience
reforming dark night scars
transforming light bright scores
of multicultural Paradise Dreams
singing and dancing
remembered EarthTribe childhoods.

Why seek yet another burnt-out
Win v Lose surgical pathologist
when we have so many healthy
Win Win bicameral
eco-therapeutic nurturers?

Trees
creating good from bad atmospheres

Pollinators
replenishing depleted economic soils

Polyculturing composters
nursing barren, climatically unhealthy,
erratically lost
partisan souls.

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TrumPublican ReVival

If there were no infamous passion for Donald Trump,
then he would not be where he is right now.

So, what would it mean to bury the TrumPublican NonParty?
not with the condemning verdict of not worthy
but rather worthy of healthier democratic treatment
than to further empower partisan apartheid
over bipartisan cooperative belonging

North with South
urban with rural
rich with poor creolizing
bicamerally co-intelligent
mind-liberating/body-conserving cooperation?

Inter-religiously re-membering
outside-traditional-lines multicultural curiosity
has been more resiliently empowering
within Earth’s polycultural history
than jealous monotheistic aggressions
against organic bilateral health care-giving
and peacefully interdependent care-receiving.

Histories of ecosystemic resilience
balance successful human nature
and resonantly holistic Earth nature
nurturing resilient economies
empowering both sacredly humane
and organically divine
equivalent democratic emerging
from prehistoric SunFather enlightening
EarthMother empowering
monotheistically transcendent light
pantheistically immanent power
cobinary political consciousness

To free ourselves from TrumPublican systemic trauma
with an ecotherapeutic landslide
of healthy democratic love
for sacred SunGod/EarthGaia belonging together

Healthier and wealthier and wiser
than falling into further uncivil apartheid

Healthy EarthMother synergetic caregiving
replacing unforgiving AnthropoCentrism
so TrumPublican families
and good-faith communities
could enjoy more robust health
resilient wealth
polyamorous SunFather wisdom

Worshipping
with more reviving peace
restoring ecojustice
within EarthClimate Rights
of constitutionally protected
democratic coinvestment.

Conservatively continuing to polyculturally evolve,
better, healthier, more actively curious, ecological listeners,
bicameral cobinary cooperative discerners,
anticipating ecopolitical landslides
of LeftMindLiberating/RightBodyConserving
transcendently sacred light
and immanently organic power

Of bicameral co-intelligence
to belong democratically together
more than autocratically apart.

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Earth Therapy

Says Csikszentmihalyi,
“Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe a dialectical [fractal] motion
between [Yang v Yin bipolar] differentiation
and [Yang+Yin dipolar] integration,
between turning attention inward [RightHemisphere preverbal intuition]
and then outward [LeftHemisphere verbal cognition],
between valuing the self [CoPassionate AnthroMind]
and then the larger [CoPleasuring EarthBody] community.”

Adds Don Beck and Christopher Cowan,
exploring their positive WinWin Thought Experiments,
about when and where and why and why not
knot now
equals both past neurosystemic wealthy
and best-trending future ecosystemic healthy relationships

“One [fractal] family is designated with warm colors [interior culture]
(BEIGE,
RED,
ORANGE,
YELLOW)
which represent Express-self,
‘I'[EgoMind-cognitive v EcoBody-intuitive]-oriented MEMEs.
The other [cobinary fractal] group is assigned cool colors
(PURPLE,
BLUE,
GREEN,
TURQUOISE)
and are the Sacrifice-self,
‘we'[EcoBody intuitive + EgoMind-cognitive]-oriented set.”

“If too much [AnthroCognitiveMind] ‘me’-ism is the problem,
then a form of ‘we'[EarthIntuitiveBody]-ness
will then be required
to restore [conserve neuro-sexsensory/ecosystemic] balance.
If the ‘we’ is excessive,
then liberation
of some ‘me’ [AnthroCognitiveMind, left hemisphere verbal differentiation dominance]
becomes attractive
if [cognitiveMind-intuitiveBody] harmony [healthy resonance]
is desired.”

My LeftHemisphere “anthro-me” neurological cognition
longs for inter-religious resonance
with RightHemisphere’s win/win “EarthBody-We” ecological intuition

Beck and Cowan echo indigenous wisdom traditions,
perhaps most cobinary articulated
within Taoist YangSage/YinMuse paradoxical co-governance
of AnthroMind-monotheistic SunGod enlightenment
and EarthBody-polytheistic EarthGaia empowerment

“The shift toward Communal/Collective coming to peace within
requires a [win/win pronoia] radar-like [neurosystemic] sense
so external [ecological positive co-relationship] messages can be picked up quickly
and accurately,
[+1 AnthroMindFull/EarthBody -(-0) copassion/not not pleasure] magnified,
and (win/win) feedback incorporated
to insure [enlightened liberating MeMind
empowering conserving WeBody co-governing] compliance.”

“The [LeftBrain verbally dominant] shift toward Individual
move against and take control
requires an internalized [bicameral cobinary bipolar/dipolar
either/or + both/and
oppositional = appositional
dialectically fractal] gyroscope-like intelligence
the self-directed [cobinary co-passionate neurological resonance] compass needed
to explore new [Me/We ego/eco-logicaly thriving] territories,
sail into uncharted [potential win/win synergetic] waters,
and break with the [un]safety of [survivalist win v lose
anthropocentric-monoculturing
either Me or We dualistic irreligious] traditions.”

Rob Brezsny’s Pronoia calls such synergetic dialectical emergence
“The Outlaw Catalog of Cagey Optimism”
yet others above may recognize dynamic nature-body/spirit-mind echoes
within Pronoia MindPsychology is also at least not Paranoia BodyPathology

A co-empathic sense of metaphysical sacred trust
as also physical organic EarthBody truth
and wealthy Anthro-economic healthy Earth-political
balancing indigenously wise beauty.

Pronoia’s Catalog includes
“AGGRESSIVE SENSITIVITY [courageous curiosity?]
Animated
by a strong determination
to be[come even more resonant Me-mind] receptive
and [resilient We-body co]-empathic.”

“ALIGNMENT WITH THE INFINITY [AnthroMind-now/EarthBody-here non-dualistic
non-violent non-verbal integrity?]
OF THE MOMENT.”

“BASKING IN ELDER [RIGHT-BRAIN] WISDOM.
A state of expansive [organic EarthRoot] ripeness
achieved through listening
to the [sacred AnthroCrown] stories
of [indigenous SageCrown/MuseRoot] elders.”

“BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE.
Acting on the knowledge
that the most efficacious [resilient] form of devotion
to the Divine Wow
[peak human-MeMind/divine-WeBody climaxing coital experience]
is [neuro-sexsensually] tinctured with playful
or mischievous behavior
[co-passionate/pleasure resonance]
that prevents the [winMe v loseWe 0-sum competitive] buildup
of [LeftBrain/RightWing anthropocentric Me-theistic ideological]
fanaticism.”

“COMIC [COSMIC?] INTROSPECTION.
Being fully aware of your own [anthropocentric] foibles
while still loving your[EarthBody]self tenderly
and maintaining confidence in your ability
to give your specific [AnthroCulture wealth-crowning] genius
to the [EarthClimate health-rooting] world.”

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Tao of Healing Peace

Which comes first?
asked Justice Sage
of Peaceful Muse

Divinely inspired Peace
or Humanely expired Passion?

For amusing organic bodies
inspiring sage minds
perspiring pronoia purposes

While DivineSage minds
worship HumaneMuse bodies
anticipating deep sacred meanings

Unveil organic unitarian Muse purposes
flowing toward
prevailing universal sacred Sage meaning
peace forms

Pronoia Gaia’s hypothetical paradox
Gnostic God’s metaphysical orthodox

How could SageMind remember anticipating
organically resilient purpose
without MuseBody religiously conjoining
sacredly resonant meaning?

Why would democratically organic bodies
reproduce belonging
autocratically sacrilegious minds
seduce longing

For sacred AnthroSage inspiring Peace
love songs refueling
Organic EarthMuse perspiring Passion
justice dances restoring

Which sacred longing first
comes organic belonging last?
asked peace perspiring MuseBody
inspiring SageMind passions.

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Sacred Conservation Conversation

Gregory Bateson:
Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss,
health is very difficult.

Laotse:
Pathology provokes a dysfunctional concern for attention,
organic health invokes a functional nonconcern
unless you have switched our cooperative evolution thrival
for your personal competitive revolution for survival.

Bateson:
…the sacred is difficult to talk about,
because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy.

Laotse:
Sacrilege of anthropocentric profanity is difficult to confront
so long as sacred Gaian ecological synergy
continues to unfold abundantly healthy
democratically wealthy
ergodic energy systems.

Bateson, on the history of Western religious culture:
The proposition for which they were burning each other was,
on one hand, ‘the bread is the body,’
and on the other, ‘the bread stands for the body.’
…this whole argument is one of fundamental importance
when related to the whole of the nature of the sacred
and to human nature….
the richest use of the word ‘sacred’
is that use which will say that what matters
is the combination of the two,
getting the two together
[panentheism].

Laotse:
When is feisty body-bread v divine-wine
not yet feeling a pathological stomachache?
When is yeasty bread and wine
not predicting a resonantly healthy bodymind?

Bateson:
Because it doesn’t make any prose sense,
the material of dream and poetry has to be more
or less
secret from the prose part of the mind.
It’s this secrecy,
this obscuration,
that the Protestant thinks is wrong,
and a psychoanalyst,
I suppose,
wouldn’t approve of either.
But that secrecy, you see,
is a protecting of parts of the whole process or mechanism,
to see that the parts don’t neutralize each other.

Laotse with Jaynes:
Because it doesn’t make any LeftBrain
Either Yang Or Yin dualistically oppositional
non-paradoxical orthodoxically logical sense
AND
RightBrain Both Yang And Yin nondualistically appositional
non-prosaic sacred mystery
of organically interdependent healthy history
Sexsensory re-membered
re-ligioned
re-woven
re-vived in love-life musing dreams
and polyphonic poetry
and sacred ecological positive co-relationships

Bateson:
What are you going to do about the use of the sacred?
There is a very strong tendency in occidental cultures,
and increasingly in oriental cultures,
to misuse the sacred.
You see,
you’ve got something nice [healthy],
central to your civilization,
which bonds together all sorts of values connected with love,
hate,
pain,
joy, and the rest,
a fantastic bridging synthesis,
a way to make life make a certain sort of [re-ligious] sense.
And the next thing is that people use that sacred bridge
in order to sell things….
We can be influenced, it seems,
by any confidence trickster,
who by his appeals
makes cheap that which should not be made cheap.

Laotse:
How are you going to invest in/divest of these organically sacred
ecosystemically panentheistic relationships?
We have pronoia appositions polyculturing beauty
and paranoid oppositions monoculturing ugly,
kind and not kind,
in anthropocentric colonization
as in EarthCentric creolization,
bonding together all economic capitalist wealth
monotheistically autocratic disvalues
within all ecologically healthy
polytheistically democratic
positive co-relational values
our empathic trusts with our ecopolitical distrusts and immunities.

Those who would reduce organically panentheistic Earth
to what can be anthropocentrically bought and sold,
cheapen that robust polyculturing climax
which could OtherWise become even more densely
wildly
indigenously resonant,
resiliently rich.

Bateson:
…while it may be fairly easy to recognize moments
at which everything goes wrong,
it is a great deal more difficult
to recognize the magic of the moments that come right;
and to contrive those moments
is always more or less impossible….
to make human relations prosper is exceedingly difficult.

Laotse:
Recognizing moments at which everything goes wrong
as tipping points,
time to win and win appositionally depolarize
win v lose 0-sum risks of mono-protagonist
ir-religiously paranoid anger management
into opportunities of and for more panentheistic
re-ligious pronoia love re-development,
to consistently
predictably
normatively
climatically invite faithfulness toward co-empathic
de-polarizing
democratizing
creolizing panentheistic trust.

Bateson:
We are [monotheistically] arrogant about what we might know tomorrow,
but humble because we know [feel] so little today.

Laotse:
We are Yang-overflowing about what we may know of Yintegrity’s potential tomorrow,
co-arising Yang v Yin
ego’s neurosystemic organic humility
within Yang+Yin-ecosystemic sacred
SunFather enlightening
EarthMother empowering
win/win panentheistic tranquility.

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Innocence

Children fill in leaking emotional cracks
in home and family’s nurturing support
with deaf and blind lies
of eternal ever after
nursing happiness

Democratic healthiness
grasped quickly
before autocratic adolescence
turns down our brighter light.

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SoulFood Recipes for Peace

Rob Brezsny reports
In 2004, San Rafael hosted a World Conference of Soul-Making
resulting in three schools for best PeaceMaking practices,
to which I will add one
more democratically inclusive,
less autonomously exclusive.

“The Ruminators
theorized that humans are born without [divine] souls
and can create them only through arduous,
disciplined rebellion against all [trauma-informed] belief systems.

The Resonators
agreed that soul [peace] isn’t innate,
but insisted that soul-making is by no means difficult
…gathering good [health-humor] stories is effective [necessary]
and not at all hard [resiliently sufficient].

The Revelators
said every [individual] person is born with a [peace-full monotheistic] soul
in seed form,
and need only discover the [organic] ‘blueprint’
of that [individual] seed
in order to attract the [anthropocentric] experiences
necessary to draw out its [integrity’s] potential.”

Regenerators
win/win hypothetically agree with all of the above,
born with a potential integrating peace seed,
we struggle with systemic traumas
win v lose dualistic pathological dramas
painfully dissociative
devolutionary ruminations
yet also
celebrate our greatest Gaian Synergy Story
of inter-religiously ecological
cooperative revolutionary culminations
resonantly anticipating
health-climaxing wealth
of panentheistic pronoia.

Re-ligiously con-scientious peace-making
within universally engaged
neurosystemic unitarian mindbody
and
compassionately pleased
ecosystemic bodymind

Re-membering roundly resonant Gaia’s
mystical polyamorous vulnerability
historical pronoia transparency
anticipating interdependent EarthTribe’s
soul-communing peace communications.

Once again, adding a culminating four-fractal fold
to three interdependent dimensions
closes a four-season healthy
regeneratively wealthy
peace-development story

Inviting our polyculturally expectant revisit
for yet more win/win synergetic soul food

Re-ligiously feeding spiritual Resonator minds of
con-scientiously breeding natural Revelator bodies for
re-viving more sacredly co-passionate Ruminators singing
organically co-pleasuring ReGenerator Muses
dancing EarthPeace soul.

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CareFueling Charges

I was charged with a misdemeanor,
based on witnesses
who imagined they heard me saying I was leaving
without a note,
even though I knew
I dinged a new red truck’s door.

I know they saw my oppositionally defiant daughter
and her careless caregiver like that
but that’s because they could not also imagine hearing

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 wounded person beside the road
wearing a self-made sign:
Homeless [unperson]
Please help me.

I cannot always pass
these dinged up 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 less a long-term training job,
is hard for understudied him
and so he stays where he may be safely hidden
despite what resilient love 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 I can
to ask us to be better, we can,
to help when They anxiously approach Us
with life’s disturbing concerns.

I make it my business to always try win/win
when someone’s in our loser mess.
It would be too out of co-empathic character
to know me as these have heard,
doing my best to avoid
a dinged your door responsibility,
because of a defiant mess I caused

I have no self-interest to not confess
and then open my eager to be warmed wallet,
already too long-suffering of privileged neglect.

But I do confess,
these are all my messes,
and yours as well.

We have too often acclimated
to this win/lose monopolistic culture,
where we do not actively care
for one another
outside our religious classrooms,
so not inside our codependent walls,
echoing with dispassionate either saved
or sinner,
not a winner.

I hope to heal your mess we cause
as gently and lovingly as I so hope
someone right now will find love’s faith to see
within my homeless not quite right son’s asking eyes:

Would you help me
fix us?
Do you know yet again
already,
we are in win/win grace together,
or we are out to fall and lose
winner v loser disgraced
apart?

If you see him
let him go
do not scold him
by his show

Be less mean and mad
in co-empathic care’s return.

Try with me to relearn
he’s done his almost best
to get Winner v Loser anxiety
more religiously right,
less desecrating wrong,
next irreligiously Othered time.

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

It would be my misdemeanor
to not do my best
wherever I see our mess
and yet
I confess
I cannot always see sin
in this interdependent swaying way.

These watchers and listeners and speakers against me
must also misunderstand,
yet perhaps that’s all to life’s good

Makes me wonder
how they would re-imagine me
if they had recognized that old white guy in front,
stopped to say a privileged yes
to each unhoused
unloved
dinged up mess.

Could we all take and give
better time enough
to just say healthy yes
to wealthy benefits
of religiously straight
monopolistically white
patriarchal winners
re-engaging co-empathic win/win enrichment
with our internal Non-Othering
Gaia Hypothetical side.

On our best
doing our almost less mess
cooperatively co-passionate
interdependently reweaving
not dark night
and not worst play

sacred Earth still co-revolving
another organically living
lovely day.

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Bad Humors Destroy Feelers

Good Humors Create Healers

Electing and selecting humorless weaponed officials
to legislate and administer laws
empowering challenged and challenging
unarmed natures,
is like expecting a rabid rattlesnake
to advocate with and for patience,
understanding through calming and merciful listening,
to apply active love’s curiously empathic trust,
which no just law, or logical practice thereof, could prohibit.

The truth of complex situations,
so necessary to uncover for wise application of our ethical codes
for economic and political behaviors,
is best accessed by vulner-ability
to co-empathic trust,
active listening,
Basic Win/Win Anticipation,
as is intelligent paradoxical humor.

Loss of humor’s appositional equanimity
is an ominous spiritual v natural sign
Yet another rabidly riled-up,
not yet cooled-down, rattlesnake
with too much “healthiest defense
is a massively wealthy offense”
post-traumatic neurosystemic intelligence.

If you are feeling like delivering toxic venom,
rather than inviting kindness in return,
then probably best and brightest
to stay home
and curl up on a warm rock.

Hard-hearted victimization intent
to neglect and abuse,
marginalize and criminalize, others
is not softened or redeemed
by anything less or more than orthopraxis of loving kindness
with a good-humored smile, as possible,
without someone thinking you are up to something devious.

Pronoia’s comedy is most effective therapeutic drama
when transparently co-responding
to the co-empathic paradox
of paranoia’s tragically triggered trauma.

Those who expect citizens to behave civilly,
best mentor what they would optimally hope to see
on our FlashMob singing streets
and not MassMurder flinging roads
and life’s Competing Business As Usual highways
and bad rumored conspiracy byways.

Front-line customer service to those suspected,
or even known,
to struggle with bad-sad-mad humored tendencies,
cannot be optimally effective
by treating them to further misdemeanors of humorless
unglad
cold-blooded
unsym-pathetic
systemic winner v loser
0-sum paranoid rabidity.

Are you in our shared health-humored busyness?
or in our too much anger/fear pathological business,
or, paradoxically, both?

If both,
which direction seems to bring you,
and the rest of us,
economically wealthier ecological,
and healthier political,
resilient relationship outcomes?

I would love to anticipate more good humored officials
(and clergy)
for multiculturally transformative public health
and become less anxious
about officious nests
of reformative rattlesnakes
threatening venomous rabidity
of bad-sad-mad humored pathology.

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