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Challenged Young Men

When is the difference between
a terrorist
and a challenged young man
not a realistic distinction?

When the young man
grows up in an NRA culture
celebrating justified evangelical military violence;

Choices for death
by automated
ballistic
monoculturing
rabid
force.

Military cultures
teach mental illness,
social pathology
of living in a fundamentally dualistic world
that is ecologically anti-trusting
and theologically
notsecular-notsacred double-binding
LoseLose dualistic

MADenning
Mutual Assured Destruction
rather than Mutual Acclimating Restoration
WinWin polypathic pedalogical.

 

 

 

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Family Health Assessment

I have watched my youngest son
while nurses give him baths
using diverse models of health optimization
ranging from PositivEnergy Promotion,
restorative ego-eco
I-Thou therapies,
to lower not too much NegativEnergy concerns
for hygienic technology professional management,
anger and fear commercialized insurance
consumer protection assurance,
in which their client,
my youngest son,
tends to disappear
from competitively BusinessAsUsual
extractive
distractive
reductively disengaged
solipsistic view.

I could say the same of parents
and older siblings
reading a story elite professionally,
but not nonelite co-passionately,

And of teachers
not actively listening to our own best and curiously paradoxical lessons
on living within more cooperative aspirations
for health abundant
fertile wealth.

 

I have an eldest son
addicted to his outside search
for inside self-esteem.

He would be a Loyal Taoist Soldier
if he had not grown up and out
among secularized angry yin-suppressors
of Beauty’s rich creolizing values.

He would African-American be
a somewhat hyperactive
yet WiseElder Mystic
if he had been raised by Taoist Sisters
rather than a yin-fearful,
bigoted,
supremacist patriarchal
racist
fascist
Yang-dominant LeftBrain
overshooting
Anthropocentric
-gentric
-eccentric lack of Yang-Yin
Left-Right bilaterally balancing
educational
deep sacred learning
cooperatively-owned culture.

I have an eldest son
who strongly prefers
to not go an entire day,
much less a week,
and a month would be eternity in empty hell,
without his Muse-THC.
stoned into rhythmic musicality.

Just as he was not to go through his best day,
and week,
and month of early school development
without feeling stoned
by his invisibility
as a person who mattered,
has noble and righteous and sacred potential,
gifts of mystic yin-rooted cooperative value
for singing and dancing
drumming and beating
expressing Gaia’s Wondrous EarthSoul

Creolizing rhythms
Blues
Jazz
Beat with syncopated
balancing
harmonic
nutritious
deep
dense
Mystic Warrior Values.

I have three sons,
one demented daughter,
born midst YangLeft Industrializing overshoot,
Tipping Pointed
to expose premillennial prejudice
of Yang as value rich
and Yin as matriotic under-valued,
hearing later millennial Revolutions
against Yang overconsumption
of Sacred Mystical Earth
and concomitant bloated human over-population

As measured by my nonelite sons
and one demented sacred daughter
who know this threatening pathological climate
already depresses their basic special humane yin-value
as icons of MotherEarth’s beautiful
sense of polyculturing humor.

Someday my eldest son
may read pre-millennial prophets
forecasting ZeroZen WinWin Fusing Dipolar Economists
re-centering his true and beautiful
Yin-Mystic sacred value
African-American creolized
in Western restoring therapeutic
Yang/Yin Resilient Justice.

He may yet read
of postmillennial healers
restoring PositivEnergy Democracy
double-binding notnot NegativEnergy
nutritional
nurturing
mystical dualdark values

He will see himself
as an ego-ecosystemic cooperative producer
of healthier nature-spirit food,
nutrition,
nurturance
absorbing WiseElder creolizers
embracing bilaterally balancing disciplines
harmonic sacred education
provoking deep rich secular bicameral Yang-Yin
Left-Right
Ego-WiseElder Eco deep-listening

I have an eldest son
who will remember
what he must have always pre-THC known,
YangCultures are nutritionally healthy
only as they are also not YinClimate pathological,
demonizing WiseElder Mystics and Matriarchs,
haters of Yang-Yin polypaths
polyphonic rhythms and patterns,
bigots against WinWin music and full-octaved color
of our best and healthiest
resiliently multicultural selves.

I have three sons
and one demented daughter
watching Yang too-extractive fuel-empowered
destabilizing GoldenEra possibilities
for Yang/Yin fractal synergy
internal-external integrity
of ego-eco systemic bilaterality
for regenerative creolizing society,
restoring Left-RightBrained resiliently
climate and landscape brilliantly
mindbody Yang wealth of Yin Mysticality

CoArising NonDual Health,
ZeroZen bicamerally certified
for polyculturing abundant secular-sacred wealth
of Egos in
co-operating resilient Ecos out,
breathing together in,
then out,
refolding creolizing in again.

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Wildly Domesticating BiCamerality

I wouldn’t call Bill Plotkin’s WildMind
unmitigated Wild RightBrained,
nor would I call his WinWin therapeutic thinking
with PositivEnergy feelings
entirely LeftBrain domesticated, diminished

Commodified, capitalized,
colonized and conquered,
deduced and reduced
down to a slow-grown dark pearl
of Negative YinEnergy
seduced by Yang Supremacy
yet still resiliently whispering

Sweet-felt nothings
to speak of dipolar Wild Risks
are also Therapeutic Opportunities,
either way,
PositivEnergy
with double-binding
not secular yet–
not still sacred

We must HereNow bilaterally speak
of Ed De Bono’s bilateral mind
as Plotkin’s WinWin
horizontal EgoEco fractal
of four winning prime colors,
or subpersonalities,
or Seasons of AnthroGeneric Development

Shaping
co-arising Anima EcoLove,
birthing
spiral colored
WinWin and WinLose and LoseLose
ecopolitical democracies
avoiding apartheid violent aristocracies.

Although I’m not so sure
about Plotkin’s sequence of West
through North
through East
emerging SouthLight Yellow
at this bimillennial TippingPoint moment.

But turquoise and ultra-violet by Night
and purple with delineating yellow by Day
sounds about Ego-Eco politically spectral correct
to RightBrain dominant
Rainbow fascinated
singing and dancing EarthSouls.

But Beige at the beginning
of co-arising bilateral Time ourselves?
That’s a Cowan and Beck
Spiral Dynamics error.

This Beige must not
and could not be,
but grey-scale instead
before LeftBrain language
developed stereophonic color categories
and scent regimes
for YangLight
with Yin DNA-RNA fractal
dualdark

Strings full-orchestra
restoring therapeutic democracy
of bilateral HereNow time
co-arising
nondually
dipolar
PositivEnergy
equal
in resilient-conscious empowerment
with dualdark NegativEnergy.

Like Trump and NewAge Lenin NegativEnergy
shitting on North Korea
stressed-out
short-person syndrome
NewAnthropogentric Age Napoleon
his tree,
KISS
I
N
G,
primal lavish geopolitical royalty,
West double-binding East
in nihilistic corrupting competitivity.

If I could turn back WildMind Time
I would fly us back to PA
and Michigan
and Wisconsin too,
to get just a few more wise women
to ignore complacency polls
ignoring Russian trolls,

To stand up against sexism
and AmericaFirst Totalitarianism,
and Climate Pathology Denialism,
and pathological absence of restorative health care.

To stop raking their liberated democratic leaves
for a half hour.
Go vote
for anyone but CombOver Bully
with the grabby hands
of MeFirst Supremacism
and ThirdGeneration bad attitude
of a nouveau riche pretention
not so wild woolly
WhitePatriarch bully,

Hopelessly confused
especially about how to make a WinWin resilient profit,
or prophet,
much less prophetess
with Sacred Matriotic Earth.

Healthy WildRight dipolar minds
and Domesticated LeftDominant brains
all agree,
healthy wealth lies
in turning Yang down
at least a YinSquared cooling degree.

Away from monoculturing Red
and toward BlueGreen cooperativity.

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Taliban Tales

How wrong could I be
were I to assume
most Taliban leaders
in Afghanistan
have aging parents?

Especially mothers,
as it is not specifically healthy
to be a male in such a violent
raped
poverished,
nutritionally-barren place

And Taliban parents
might also have kids hungry and thirsty
and afraid to give us grandkids,
for economic and political starvation reasons.

It might occur to healthy energy democratic leaders
thinkers and feelers
that feeding
and restoring healthy therapeutic ecosystems
could grow better polycultural Afghanistan wealth outcomes
promised by Allah
and YHWH alike.

Restorative, rather than more extractive, retributive justice
could work more WinWin effectively,
than continuing bad karma retributive violent goals
of assured mutual environmental destruction
and inhumane death and dying and terrorizing
paranoid children,
and other forms of almost incalculable dismay
through strategies rooted in punishment
and threat
and counter-terrorism terror,
visiting the sins of fathers
upon Yang soldiers
and Yin sacred daughters and aging mothers alike.

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Wendell Berry’s Boutique

Organic
zero-waste stream
permaculturally designed
and cooperatively owned
farms
are no more or less Democratic-Boutique ecopolitics

Than AgriBusiness
extractive anti-ecological
rather than restorative-ecosystemic therapy,
competitively owned
and Business as Usual capitalist-colonizing designed
multinational conglomerates of anthro-hubris greed,
are no more or less Totalitarian Universal Supremacist ecopolitics.

I heard a young woman farmer
raising grass-fed cattle
on her small organic farm
designed to restore health to Southern
RedState topsoil,
as well as to her kids’ kids,
future farmers of Postmillennial America.

She believed the small scale
of her natural-spiritual restorative farming economy
placed her at a disadvantage
to receive government operational loans
as compared to multinational agribusiness conglomerates
using chemicals and pesticides
to kill topsoil
and extract short-term nutritional values
at long-term disinvested cost
to future healthy generations
and their dreams to health-wealth thrive.

A government farm subsidy expert responded:

If we don’t have enough capital to loan to everyone,
we are forced to give priority funding
to larger scale producers
with capacity to provide more than sufficient this-year nutrients
for our large domestic and foreign flooding markets.

She did not mention costs of growing obesity
and simultaneous malnutrition,
dual-poignant trends.

She did add,
The agricultural sector is complex,
composed of large agribusinesses
and small boutique operations,
and all are welcome by UncleDonald to apply,
after first saluting the TrumpTowers,

But she left unchallenged
the Farmer’s original matriotic complaint
of an uneven ecopolitical playing field
that actually favors large patriarchal corporate greed operations
invested in toxic
extractive
farming-as-raping sociopathic practices.

As I was listening to the farm subsidy expert
on competitive economics
make her case for giving separate but
only marginally unequal value
to these diverse nutritional scales,
small and more robustly large,
with distinct investment niches
available for public dollar support
of a presumably synergetic-democratic agricultural department,
without conceding undue favor to AgriBusiness multinationals.

Separatists, yes;
Supremacists for BusinessAsUsual, no.

I was starkly reminded
of an OldSchool KKK spokesman
who last year said
the WhiteBrother Klans are racial separatists
but not WhiteMale Supremacists.

It does feel like a pathological distinction
without a healthy,
non-WhiteWashed, difference
for present
or future lives
of and for thriving nutritional diversity,
deep sacred-secular ecological synergy.

When will pre-millennial threats
ever learn how to hear post-millennial therapies
as other than Boutiquely Synergetic?

I know…
I know!…
When we have to grow together
rather than continue failing apart.

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Systems Loop in Spirals

Let’s talk honestly together
about our divinely-inspired inter-related concepts,
like color,
of God’s unlimited multiculturing powers
for healthy resilience
and growth of Positive ultra-violet Energy,
yet on an increasingly finite feeling and self-feeding planet,
limited by overpopulation of anthros
powerless to sustain life
throughout our planetary grey-scaled and commodified
capital-infested
bought and sold,
invested and divested,
borrowed and stolen
ecosystem.

A spiraling vicious out of control anti-evolutionary system
formerly known,
and/or felt,
as sacred ecology optimizing
a deep-learning Gaia
WinWin outcome oriented
WiseElder Original CoPresent Intention,

Ego with EcoConsciousness,
Holy Nature-Spirited external-internal mindfulness,
Left secularized deductive
dominantly emerging
from Sacred ElderRight

Advocating polycultural DNA-RNA Solidarity of ProLife
regenerative prime-fractal inter-relationship feedback loops,
throughout four prime dimensions
of Earth regenerating loops and spirals,
spacetime,
4D RealTime Revolutions of FullOctave
PositivEnergy Color.

Let’s listen comparatively
to how AmericaFirst sounds
to Eastern Left-Right nondual horizons.

Those dipolar-aware
that NorthWest nations revolve
around the SacredSun’s light fertility
no more
no less
than SouthEast nations,
advocate for and with
Nutritional Energy Democracy,
Health Equity.

If we are not all EarthFirst WinWin together,
then life,
even of SunGod’s fertile just-right light
as Paradised on ReGenerative Earth,
cannot long last on Goddess Gaia’s living skin
favoring CoOperative
restorative
revolving
spiraling AnimaMundi bilateral consciousness
of revolving feedback loops,
mindfulness of treasured EarthParadise
for future WinWin Left-Right regenerators
of DNA-RNA Sacred Solidarity in LoveLife.

We share a sacred mythopoetic Elder RightBrain identity
in which fractal-spiraling health is our goal
and wealth is our sacred multiphonic achievement thereof.

This polypathic health game cannot be divinely successful
if played through infinite growth of egocentric need
powering over finite resonant EarthFirst eco-resilience
of WinWin Paradise today,
now,
here,
in each notnot (0)Soul moment,
within each individuating identity of interdependent relationships,
each ego,
each nurturing neighborhood,
each educated community,
each informed state,
each conscious nation,
each feedback spiraling living planet
of Sacred EgoEcoLogical Integrity.

Our RightHand dominant orthodoxies
of healthy abundant economies
and wealthy resonant social politics
for ongoing inter-relationships
already feel and intuit
this Elder Matriotic Wisdom
of Yin-PolyPhonic CoOperation
equivalently
ambivalent double-bound
with notnot Yang PolyPathic.

Such wisdom is as ancient
as the first Tree of Life,
finite
healthy RNA feedback recycling
in appositional cotension with
Infinite Pathological Death.

What could we have left to lose
but hatred and mistrust
if Washington and Moscow and Peking
gained WiseElder consciousness
of an Ancient Forest
restoring CoGovernor Solidarity
in Full-PolyPathic Color?

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Wise Elder Leadership

Wise Elders are patient,
fully embrace non-violent communication
and health care
of climates and landscapes,
persons,
places,
things,
plants
and planet,
hopes
and dreams
rebuilding positive faith.

Wise Elders non-violently listen
for karmic grace of love
sometimes overflowing, diastatic.

If Wise Revolutionaries for change,
for clearing murky swamps,
then Wise Elder non-violent evolutionaries
toward peace
restoring OneBody of HolySpirit
for cooperative justice,

Anima Mundi active mercy-growing
Gaian Principles of patient and steadfast
relentlessly co-present serenity
surrendering to shared joy,
wonder,
awe

Rooted in revolving
double-binding Entropy-Synergy
truths discovered uncovered recovered
trusting constitutional WiseElder health
actively non-violent,
Yangly yinned equivalent ambivalent re-bivalent
ReVolutions restoring Earth’s WiseElder Peace.

This might not sound like your fifth grade teacher,
or even your high school civic leadership preacher,
your parents
or any candidate for WiseElder public service leadership
you have ever had the pleasure of voting for,
or even the displeasure of voting against
given your democratic opportunities and options
up to this Postmillennial Time.

You probably have had difficulty
identifying Sacred WiseElder candidates
favoring multicultural health of polypathic-polyphonic Traditions,
conserving Elder Wisdom
by liberating Secularizing Fools from future public offices
of authority
responsibility
accountability to all DNA-RNA Solidarity cooperatives,

Including other Sacred WiseElders and Children
and all regenerative ages in-between reborn and dead
co-investing in WinWin ecopolitical players,
pro SevenGeneration lifers,
revolters from Business As BeatenDown and Punished Usual,
Occupiers,
Organic Gardeners and ReWeavers,
good regenerative shepherds,
bodhisattva co-messiahs,
eco-yogis of cooperative stretching
and breathing
and bilateral consciousness
and economically wise EcoLogos,
tellers of Regenerative Nature-Spirit Stories.

Conjoining WiseElder Voices:
Restorative Justice and Peace Advocacy,
Gaian Principles of PermaCulturing Design
(for internal and external healthy landscapes and climates)
Tao as Bicameral ZenZeroZone-ish-ness-nest
ego/eco-habitat.

Wise Elder Ego
reflects Sacred EcoLogos-Mythos
de-monoculturing ego-Left dominantly
re-polyculturing WiseElder habitats
within SacredRight inducting EarthSoul.

Between SacredElders
lies a coincidental double-binding
transparent boundary,
a crystal lake faced septum,
reflecting secular Yang mountains above
co-arising
deep sacred YinYin bilateral WinWin Valleys
waving back in Wonder
and Awe
about who we have been,

Where and when we have come from
what SacredElders
and why,
and where we could best become
Wise SacredElders
reflecting active mentors
of Bicameral EarthSoul

Humane EgoPlace
inside-outside
Divine temporal integrity,
Tipping Points
back and forth
toward WiseElder ego-eco revolutionary double-binding
democratizing parties,
creolizing stresses and strains of glory
composed of Original AnimaMundi Constitutional Intent
of Sacred WiseElders.

It cannot be a radical proposition,
except in the most deeply rooted, fundamental,
incarnations of “radical,”
that Democratic Constitutional Intent
toward sacred Unity of a Humane People (NOT uniformity)
toward secular and sacred Welfare,
fare well wealth including internal and external health
of a society and planet with great rapidly growing polycultural richness,
density,
assets,
producers and consumers,
precludes the foolishness of encouraging monocultural fascism
supremacist RightWing dominating choices.

Not WiseElder,
more TooMuchYangLeft Business As Competing Usual
EitherOr headed toward degeneratively pathological demise
of plants
people
planet,
place,
organic things,
love,
faith,
hope for future Sacred Wise Bilaterally Conscious Elders,
speaking and acting with regenerative non-violence,
patient healthywealth
consuming and producing polycultural outcomes.

Those who ask for your support,
your faith,
your belief,
your prayers,
so they can play Win AnthroCentric Economic Gains
by Losing Sacred EarthSoul Ecological Wealth,
short-sightedness to this tipping point
delineating myopic absence of 2020 accountability,
These self-marketers are economically and politically clueless
about discerning democratically mature health
from plutocratically adolescent pathology.

It is foolish to grow in irresponsibility,
stuck in WinLose
EitherOr
perpetual adolescent LeftBrain too dominant,
out of balance
unconsciousness
even of our own cognitive-affective internal dissonance.

RightWing internal arguments
threats
nightmares
conspiracies whisper
for ReStorative LeftRight Justice
as sacred multi-laterally cooperative
nondual co-arising peace
of exegetically Sacred WiseElders
past through future Seven ReGenerations.

 

If polypathic space
equals not(not polyphonic)
bilateral waves
of flowing time,
spirals of revolutionary regenerative DNA-RNA solidarity health
strings evolving
enculturing weaving and unraveling Creation Stories
of Light’s integrative/anti-integrative CoPresence,

If Yang
equals not(not Yin)
equals ++1
equals (notnot)Zero binomially WinWin double-bound,
nondual co-arising
Sacred Wisdom refining Elder Exegesis,
perhaps EgoLeft co-arises EcoRight,
BiEarthSoul,
HolonicSpirt,
One CoMessianic Body
restored by re-gathering
Patriarchal-Matriarchal EcoPolitical
WiseElder Balance,
patience,
non-violent reweavings
reconnecting vocations in peaceful ego/eco-justice.

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Great New and Old Years

Terrorism,
threat of terrorizing shelters
and habitats
and wombs,
seeds and trees,
mountains and valleys,
forests and deserts and oceans,
fear and anger conjuring and mongering and marketing
do not work long-term
because co-passions of love do work
more cooperatively and therapeutically.

Expressing
and impressing
our sacred healthcare vocations.

War does not impassioned sustain
as defensive basis for a society’s
just politics or economics
because peace does work
toward compassions of a culture.

Slavery and habitat-less-ness ultimately fail
because integrity’s empowerment
is passionately more vital.

Evil does not compassion health
because full integrity of loving does
eco-passion
within Earth’s revolving anima mundi,

Gaian Principles of Sacred Original DNA-RNA Solidarity Intent,
Holy Democratic Equivalence Matriotic-Patriotic,
Yin-Yang
Eco with Ego,
EarthSoul habitat and identity’s EgoShelter,
Nature-Spirit nondual co-incarnations
CoMentor ReStorative Therapies

Rather than teaching Earth’s military-industrializing LeftBrain dominant adolescent excesses,
we could LeftRight reach
for how and why and when
we have the justified self-righteousness
to blow each other up,
put each other desacralizing down.

These primary judgment and justice tasks
of democratic educational integrity,
parental maturity and lifeskills,
humane ego-ecological wisdom,
listen with Earth’s harmonious Native NatureSpirits,
teach WinLose adolescents,
questioning EitherOr Traditional Assumptions,
about how and why and when
we best share this cooperative WinWin vocation
to grow integrity’s EarthSoul habitat co-passions,
egocentric health
AND ecopassionate wealth.

Remembering
reweaving
resonant SacredWombs
DNA phylogenic growing
EarthMother ego-shelters,
skins,
bellies,
bodies
with bilaterally extending
polypathic=polyphonic
4D spacetime sacred deep ecology minds,
made WinWin originally
of regenerative sacred habitual intent.

Retribution,
threat of removing ReStoration’s regenerate EarthSoul shelters
and habitats
and wombs,
seeds and trees,
mountains and valleys,
four-seasoned forests
and surfing bilateral healthy oceans,
through fear and anger conjuring and punishment-mongering
and divinely inspired ecopolitical marketing
cannot ecologically survive long-term
because co-passions of love do
Work That Reconnects
ReStores,
ReWeaves,
ReLigions,
ReGenerates,

ReHealthyFrames
wealthy bilateral
Tao of Fractal-Vital-CoAnimated/ing Time.

Spiraling inductive in,
breathing deductive out

Breathing sacred EarthSoul habitat in,
breathing secular seductive shelter out

Breathing coempowering mind in,
breathing warm nurturing heart out

Breathing retributive acclimations in,
breathing restorative ego-ecojustice out

Learning dangers
of retributive WinLose choices early,
Mentoring WinWin restorations
of EarthSoul Abundance,
ultra-violet non-violent revolutions,
peaceful outcomes later.

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Degrees of Insanity

Is it more insane
to long to grow away from prisons
than to feel we still belong imprisoned?

Are we already prisoners,
lacking images for liberties
and co-arising responsibilities,
of a re-embodied god?

Are we divine authorities
to remake humanity
in our own god and goddess incarnations
free of body limiting imaginations?

Could we imagine
a YHWH who embodies Earth,
cosmologically evolving through spacetime,
revolving
spiraling dense and complex octaves
of color as resonant scales of sound,
fragrance within redundant seasons
of FatherSpace suns and black star-caves
passing through MotherTime valleys and waves?

Imagine we are stardust
coming to see ourselves
as we might bust
hard thrust
know lust
grow trust
blow truth
speak sooth,
unfortunately rust,
imaging ourselves
through redefining us
across healthing regenerations.

Are we less insane
longing our way from prison
belonging free
without cancerously capital-investing cells?

Punishment spells?

BigDaddy will swell
if we tell
I am
where we are;
We are
where we belong.

I can’t cower
if you think that’s wrong
I can only sing
how god wrote my song.

And I can only dance
where Allah could best prance strong.

And we can only breathe
what TaoTime finds notnot
too double-binding long.

I think I would be wrong
to imprison what longs
to virally throng.

Aren’t we more insane
stuck in retribution’s prison
when god cries out for peace
restoring Earth’s freedom
from FalsePatriotic lies,
paternalism fried,
too many species
and future generations
of sacred Time’s regeneration
already died.

If only we had tried
a little less LeftBrain secular crazy
and a lot less RightBrain sacred lazy

Is it less insane
to long to stay in prison
than to know we don’t belong
imprisoned
or enslaved
to insanity ourselves?

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Heroes and Villains

Everyone’s great cause
projects them as our future’s therapeutic hero.
So all against our health-intending causes
reject us as potential victimizers,
ostracizers,
impeachers,
disenfranchisers,
excommunicators.

The trick is to see antagonists,
sources of trauma,
as part of protagonist causes you,
resource for therapy,
actively seeking out each other
as possible co-redeemer heroes
resolving differences together,
with good faith
in divinely interrelated sacred causes.

I live with a fifteen year old daughter
with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
and the emotional intelligence
of a five year old
on her best day.

This provides daily exercise
practicing this trick of sharing my protagonist identity
with her antagonistic causes,
needs,
wants and egocentric demands,
regarding her sacred and natural causes,

Which usually have something to do with eating
and exercise
and baths
and diaper changes
and positive social interactions,

Usually with YouTube comrades
with sacred and natural causes
involving eating impolitely
and dancing while singing obnoxious songs, repeatedly
and personal hygiene issues, offensively
and other humorous entertainment productions.

She most loves to find ways to embarrass me.

I had to put a lock on the bathroom door,
high enough so she can’t lock me out
but just right for me to lock myself in.

After a few times of having her follow me upstairs
to see if she might catch me using the toilet
or, even better, naked in the shower,
with the door unlocked,
and participating in an ongoing dialogue about privacy rights,
more relentless than merely ongoing,
heated discussions about why she is outside
while I am hiding inside,

I announced to her,
one day,
as I was heading toward the stairs,
that I was going upstairs to poop.
“Do you want to come and watch me?”

She looked up from her military-grade
bomb-proof laptop,
started to get up off the couch,
then sat back down,
No!
Why would I want to do that?

Exactly,
when I stopped hiding
I was no longer her sacred cause to seek.

I suppose we might imagine larger stages
for co-redemptive ecopolitical invitations.
It helps to have a healthy sense of humor
about your own divinely-inspired protagonist causes
for true peace and authentically restoring justice.

Showing your antagonists,
your deniers,
your ugly offenders,
your sources of trauma,
and intrusive curiosity
this more therapeutic side
of your good-humored position
may be just enough
for them to realize
you’re not quite so humorless and hopelessly abusive or neglectful
of their healthy included best interests
after all.

So,
maybe it’s OK
to lighten up
and watch to see who laughs last
and longest
together.

Or,
as in this domestic case of bathroom privacy,
laugh quietly
and more peacefully
apart.

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