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Defining Delineations

To define is to articulate what lies within
a concept,
a population,
a word,
a paradigm.

To delineate is to articulate what lies beyond
boundaries of a concept,
a population,
a word,
a gestalt.

To extend learning,
and loving,
is to stretch this evolving articulation of boundaries
between what lies within
and without
a concept,
a population,
a tradition,
a still evolving word,
a revolutioning,
multiculturing,
transforming paradigm.

When we become lost in reductive delineations
we can become distracted from expanding
deepening
thickening
capitalizing
heightening polypathic definitions.

For example,
Republicans, and, to a somewhat lesser extent,
Democrats, in the USA,
have begun a new tradition,
and not a healthy one,
of becoming more articulate definers
of what it means to be One
by loudly proclaiming we are not of the Other.
Something similar could be said, unfortunately,
about feminists and patriarchal caste preservationists
as anti-feminists;
which does not really evoke strong hetero family values
in any traditional healthy
wealthy
or wise sense I can think of.

I guess we could call rape a form of intercourse,
but not one that anyone would hope for
in any semblance of sanity,
much less integrity.

Anyway,
when Trumpians try to define the benefits
of their proposed health care legislation,
the first, and often last, phrase I hear is:
It is not ObamaCare.

Perhaps the only difference
will be measured by comparative NonCare,
leaving further delineating boundaries
between Trumpian and Obamian Care
to evolve further at a later excluded time
for continuing to expand healthcare.

But, in today’s polarizing environment,
health affordability and sustenance
and pathology prevention issues
are increasingly above our active political leadership’s pay scale,
beyond our collective rhetorical mission statements,
now becoming who we are constitutionally not,
because too internally divided by kleptocratic v democratic complexities
of who we might have become
together,
in and among a healthier
wealthier
regenerative space/time
body/mind extending religion
appositional word-pair
liberating population
transforming paradigm.

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Domestic Amusement

I find my entertainments close to home
as nothing could be more wildly hilarious
and downright curious
than my own complex teenagers
who sometimes speak
and do their math
about what adds up toward our shared
and independent
futures.

Then there are cacophonous birds
mourning doves and sparrows
blue jays and robins
yellow finches and ravens
greeting dawning light
as if some unprecedented miracle were unfolding
about which they will chatter and chirp amongst themselves
for many generations to come,
like climate marchers
just happy to be here
for this climaxing stellar event.

Then too I have neighbor watching and listening
which picks up more during afternoons,
after school buses drop off
wounded and yet still wondering kids,
with dogs and cats and even grandparents
to greet them,
while moms and dads slave away
at their own employer sponsored performances.

Meanwhile squirrels and chipmunks
scold and scamper
with playful engagement,
or playing at industry,
who could say
what undomesticated animals feel?

Worms burrow in the garden,
hopefully,
although I hate to interrupt them
solely for my frivolous fancies
regarding appropriate live entertainment.

They often respond, upon my thunderous devastation
of enlightening presence,
as if they were having some intimate dark night moment
that I have immodestly exposed to light.
I apologize,
recover,
and move on.

The bumble bees have posted flying sentries
around my front porch,
each flying in place all day long
tiny yellow and black helicopters
engaged in serious defensive intelligence gathering

Noting my scandalously erratic comings and goings,
importations and exportations,
exhortations,
and, even worse,
often sitting down on their porch’s swing,
rocking back and forth,
staring back
just as if I were not least bit intimidated
by threat of black and yellow drones.

Merely curious
about what’s so valuable inside
up under their roof
that they find me such a suspiciously alien threat.

But really,
for me,
these bumbling buzzing sentries are merely entertainment.

I especially love to watch
when they occasionally dive-bomb each other
for some inscrutable random whimsy.

Their placement may be a pageant
having nothing to do with my performance,
other than enjoyment
of their benign engagements
invested in this home we share.,
when we avoid claims
against immigrant infestments

While star gazing,
anticipating moon rise and fall,
wax and wane,
sailing behind diaphanous clouds
stretching my focus further out
this dark night’s soul

Pursuing at home dreams
as do these raucous insects
selling nocturnal sex and happiness
as if my backyard
on down toward river’s bed
were their red-light flowing district.

It amuses me,
hearing musicians’ combined intensity of purpose
to continue domestic entertainments
on through each warm month night

Until it’s time for those gospel choiring birds
to squawk and chirp
whistle and cheep
another at home climate marching dawn
of transformed peace.

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Religious Arts and Science

Art follows ecology
of inductive diametrical synergy

As science leads logos
through deductive dialectical simplicity

As religious culture accompanies mythos
seducing ancient dialogues
in amusing sage symmetry

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ReForesting Therapy

Deep listeners, like seeds, are germinators.
Generation wears two faces,
as does development,
positive and negative,
regeneration and degeneration.

Some seeds are healthier than others.
Some are positively deviant, atypically robust,
and others are negatively deviant, flawed,
dissonant,
missing a shared median mark
some would see as sin,
which can be forgiven within oneself
by learning to forgive others
for our considerable
but largely unconsidered
negative deviant seeds.

Bill Mollison exhorts us to a global therapeutic project:
Reforesting the Earth
is one of the few tasks
left to us
to express our humanity.

This feels true and right and good,
hopeful and prophetic and WinAnthro/WinEarth,
and yet mysterious and incongruous
transformation rather than deportation.

It raises questions,
like a good parable,
and wisdom literature in general.

I can think of a time within nation-state histories
and even extended family,
tribal development stories,
when some wise patriarch might have said:
Deforesting this place
is one of the few tasks
required of us
to optimize our divine-humane potential.

Did we really have to deforest
to develop a FiveStar FirstWorld Class
to fulfill healthy humane curiosity
and deep ecological wealthy learning
to reforest this Earth
to re-express, and perhaps forgive ourselves,
our privileged LeftBrain dominant historic development?

And, whether so or no,
was Original Forest logos
also Original Sin mythos?
Risk and opportunity,
degenerative and regeneratice potential
germinating within each of Earth’s soils
and nondual mind-bodies
co-arising LeftYang-RightYin
Win+Win souls.

I wonder what Mollison means
by “one of the few” assignments.
And whom or what he believes left these therapeutic tasks
for our co-passionate fulfillment.

I like to think and feel perhaps few,
in a prime-relational sense,
is two;
that calculating deforesting trauma
is a reverse hierarchical face
of harmonizing reforestation
ecotherapy

A resonant full-octave restoration
of Paradise Lost
through LeftBrain capitalized dissonance
over RightFlow co-empathic resonance,

Of deductive deforesting as dissociated numerator
with inductive bilateral reforestation as re-associated denominator,
differential dialectal fractal-fractions
Either/Or
Both/And
sung and danced through matriarchal herstories
of organic MotherEarth with sacred FatherSun,
dominantly radiant Yes of Light
with reforesting harmonics
of EarthDay reforesting dawn
greeting EarthNight climate dusk.

Forests of seeds,
like therapeutic acclimators,
are germinators,
embryonic determinators
empowering already forgiven regenerators.

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Optimizing Healthy Investments

If we were to follow a health model
for optimizing both economic and ecological wealth outcomes,
then investment in public and private
compassionate communication educational systems
for active ecotherapeutic practice
and developing cooperative, self-regulating systems,
would become our primary fiscal investment

While surgical and ballistic revenge
against past overly competitive pathologies
would become a more secondary retaliatory Win v Lose
0-sum defensive strategy,
reserved for proportional disinvestment
from further nationalistic and paternalistic sickness.

So, we might have a slow-growing Educational Defense Department
with a big multicultural peace-mentoring curriculum
and proportionally appropriate re-investment priorities
for growing active peace inside
and outside.

And, a more slow-shrinking Military Police Surgical Department,
with a much smaller multicultural re-education agenda
for WinMind+WinBody ecosystemic strategies
for evolving long-term cooperative resonance
to re-establish peaceful needs with justice wants
self-regulating within
as graciously extending our global family
through further revolutions of resilient networks.

Two seminal Biblical teachings seem relevant
to this health and prosperity model.
Those who live by ballistic Win v Lose swords,
shall die by the sword,
alone.
Yet, those who live by active communal co-redemptive love,
shall die in love,
as One Interdependent MindWant+BodyNeed
together.

If our personal and political therapeutic love-lives
are a two-edged sword,
all of regenerative history
and degenerating past monocultures
conjoin to teach us compassionate health-regulated education
best remains our Yang front regenerate edge,
leaving competitive Win v Lose military divestment priorities
to a more secondary defensive strategy
for remedially,
surgically,
proportionally,
reverse-hierarchically protecting freedom and democracy and trust and love,
internal and external,
where cooperative economic and ecological climate balance
requires us all to sustain short-term narcissistic loss
within EarthTribe’s organic health and sacred prosperity,
eco-regenerating intention.

When peace education and public cooperative-ownership
and co-empathic governing
cultural praxis,
multicultural interdependence
of nurturing voices and nutritional sources,
catchment and re-investment,
indigenous wisdom of compassion
no longer lead our personal and public investment priorities

Then competitively dying by a Win v Lose sword
will lead our way to further climates of hubris,
ego v eco unbalance,
caste supremacism,
anthropocentrism

Rather than caring for Earth,
gathering EarthTribes,
regenerating cooperative relations with Others
to optimize our health wealth educated
co-empathic Selves.

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Integrity’s Boundaries

What if we were lusty song,
sacred litany?

What if…
What if we were sensual dance,
grace filled choreography?

What if we were organic energy?
Naked branched and rooted trees
joining navels
from native mother wombs
to nurture Mother seeds
down through speciating generations
up for regeneration.

What if we became trusted time
for reorganizing space?
Irreplaceable humored climates
recreating sacredly organic humidity.

I am not your sad place
and not gladly mine
with responsibility to displace
or authority to replace.
I am not my fading face.

We are designed to fall apart,
even with unlikely careful wear.
So what is this time
of my planned obsolescence?

No refuge from surrender
to daily worn-out deaths.
Not yet refused to rise this day
ready for each dusk
without anticipation
for love or lust
rain or dust
win or bust.
It’s just us
wearing down the best we can.

What if…
What if we were each a song
resonating one pure measure
of integrity’s longest line dance?

What if we were timeless energy
resonating freestyle
mind embodiedness?

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Compassionate Revolutions

YangEgo grows endosymbiotic
as Yin EcoHome flows ectosymbiotic
allied with YangEgo EarthMother solidarity.

These two faces of cooperative change
dipolar synergetic exchange,
transubstantiation,
metamorphic re-acclimation
within as without

Interior landscape evolution
resembling exterior climates
of great and small
transitional
co-empathic
co-acclimating mind/body
crown/root chakra
spirit/natured
want/needed

Left to right
co-passionately pleasing
revolutions.

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When DayDreams Prevent NightMares

Who would argue
about which came first,
intelligent compositional design,
or a decomposing natural Earth?

No one.
To do so is too patently absurd,
when we choose to see these two
not only as oppositional cause-effect,
but also as appositional
dipolar co-arising balance
of resilient resonant information,
composing and recomposing
tacitly implied within decomposing energetic balance.

The very idea that either regenerating natural purpose
or degenerating spiritual meaning
could originally, foundationally, come one before the other,
like belonging before longing,
day before night,

Mind wants before body needs,
contentment before contextualization
appears before feeling anti-ecological


Like choosing Win v Lose degenerative stasis
without Win+Win regenerative integrity
co-arising further multi-generational co-intelligence

Of daydream democratic rights
and nightmare autocratic wrongs.

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Cooperative Feministas

Cooperative Feministas
are not quite so much Competitive Manifestos.

In David Holmgren’s introduction to Permacultural Therapeutic Design,
he contrasts “Industrial Culture” with “Sustainable Culture”
kind of like comparing macho LeftBrain fundamentalist culture
with feminist RightBrain enculturation, nurturance, resonance
over the longer-term scenaria,
rather than shorter-term dementio.

Anyway, Holmgren recognizes we could choose alternative words
for labeling these two contrasting, appositional, cultures.

We might sometimes choose
Competitive Culture v Cooperative Culture,
or Capital-Accrual v Nutrition-Dispersal,
sort of like the difference between hunting down and killing the defense
as compared to gathering and feeding the vegan edibles,
or Colony Acquisitional
(e.g. slaves and other exploitive ways of acquiring cheap manual, and especially womanual, labor)
v Creolizing ReGenerative
(like mixing multicultural spices contributed in pay-it-forward co-invested development of a robust Stone Soup
accessible to all with cooperatively managed ownership)

Or LeftBrain dominant Patriarchal Business as anthropocentrically usual)
v Right-Left Matrimonial bicameral co-passion

Or degenerative LoseMInd/LoseBody ZeroSum
anti-ecological
entropic 2nd Principle
of closed Upper-Caste Framing From-Above
triggering reactive systems
against ReGenerative Win/Win NonZeroSum
Positive Deviance

Cooperative revolutions and devolutions, too
because what goes politically up
must also at least partially come back down
and what grows out
must also economically recess back in

But, if Holmgren was familiar with Buckminster Fuller’s
Synergetic EcoSystemic Theory,
he might also have chosen
Precessive Political Culture v Recessive Economic Culture.

Precessive toward PreAcclimation of PolyCulturally Convex-Ecstasy
upward and outward extension trends
implying their reverse cobinary
inevitable intention,
Recession toward ReAcclimation ConCave-Within-Embryonic,
potential to be born again

Convex is the top of a forward surfing wave
of temporal-flowing energy,
information,
while concave is the subsequent indrawing trough,
a renewing ebb of what had been that precessive crest,
now reacclimating inward and downward,
more deeply resonant
toward a renewing polyculturally inclusive
recycling balance.

Each polarity represents an appositional tension,
with all the cultural risks of revolutionary eruptions
growing toward violent hypertension
and anthropocentric repressive recessive despair

All the multicultural opportunities
of evolving re-creative regenerative tensions
toward therapeutic midway Tipping Points
of ecosystemic ecological balance,
cooperatively sustainable at both highly localized
and global-planetary scales
of empowering co-empathic trust,
more culturally dominant,
more sustainable,
than mutually antipathic distrust.

While this suggests our hopes lie in our combined powers
of cooperatively active love
and our degenerative despair lies within any further stressing increases
in uneven autocratic powers,
terrorizing showers
of competitive
increasingly rabid
over-populated behavior
of elites v non-elites

Monoculturing
monopolistic
monochromatic
monotheistic disdain,
fueling each ego’s sense of selfish competitive gain
at the expense of Others left behind
and below

Including future non-anthropological generations
lost to our zero-sum entropic
anthro-inflicted loss;
reacting to each Other defensively
as if we lived on a Closed-Earth
cut off from atmosphere
and Solar System

which, of course,
we don’t
unless anthro-supremacists choose
to continue playing uber capitalist
colonizing
Industrial Culture
zero-sum exhausted Got-Game theories

Holmgren helpfully adds a chart of comparative/contrasting characteristics
of his Industrial v Sustainable Cultures,
which I will supplement in brackets
intending to nuance these Either Yang Or Yin
oppositional cultures
into a more regenerative Both Yang And Yin
appositional bilateral enculturation,
premised on LeftBrain precessive Yang falling back
in love with RightBrain recessive Yin:

Non-renewable and Renewable

Linear [continuous acceleration] and Cyclical [seasonal-spiral],

Consumption [extraction, piracy] and Storage [conservation, protection],

Centralized [autocratic, exclusive] and Distributed Network [democratic, inclusive],

Fast [short-term perspective] and Slow [long-term cooperative]

Centre [Yang, Upper,Inner-Caste] and Edge [Yin, Lower,Outer-Caste]

Episodic eruption [revolution] and Rhythmic stability [evolution]

Reductionist and Wholistic

Masculine and Feminine

Holmgren’s chart of this massive tsunami,
of both human population and consumption of fossil-fueled energy,
crests right now where you and I are living together
and is now beginning a growing permacultural-regenerative cooperative de-spiraling descent
back down to a healthy and multiculturally safe population base by 2500
that is modestly increased over the year 1500.

Disrupting in these DisUniting States
playing LoseAnthro/LoseEarth
economic anti-ecological co-relationship
political 0-sum partisan Trump cards,
I realize how far our kids have to fall
apart together

Before Cooperative Feministas
are not quite so much Competitive Manifestos.

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