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First Uniting Nations

Honey, why doesn’t the United Nations include the First Nations?

Are you asking about Babylon
or Native Americans?
Who were, at the time,
thought to be more like wild Indians
by the movers and shakers of rapid industrializing history.

What about a Security Council
made up of the Maple Tree Nation
and the RainForest Nation
and the WaterDweller Nation
and the WingedFlight Nation?

I suspect that would be a transportation
and a communication nightmare.
Your First Nations
are too wild
and voiceless
for nurturing mutual health and wealth translations.
What language could they understand
and speak together?

Is that why the Security Council
is composed of its current constituencies,
because they share a common health as wealth language
everybody understands
and speaks cooperatively together?

Probably not.

I wonder if they might like to adopt some First Nation Golden Rules
for planting and harvesting.
(adapted from Robin Wall Kimmerer,
Braiding Sweetgrass,
p. 183)

Know the ways of the ones who take care of you,
so you may have the first clue how to take care of yourself,
by taking care of them too.

That would seem to preclude rabid overpopulating infestation
of any one overbearing Species,
or Nation,
or monoculture.

It does shed a variegated light
on UncleSam’s ways of taking and giving care
to existing United Nations
and First Nations
and even His own health and climate care giving
and receiving.

So what’s the next First Nation Planting and Harvesting Protocol?

Introduce yourself,
by re-introducing your active gratitude.
Become, and sustain, accountable integrity
as one who approaches each living system
asking to share cooperative life.

More of a WinWin mutual namaste,
and less of a who grabs whose hand first
and shakes the last life out of it
the hardest and fattest and longest.

Yes.
I see it more like multiculturing root systems in a forest
waking up to a new spring day
totally in love with each other,
each in a uniquely knowing way.

That does sound like reasonable understory protocol
for a Security Council
surrounded above by a forest of United First Nations.
What’s next, if I may ask?

Ask permission before taking
no more than half.
Accept feedback.
No means not yet,
and sometimes never.
Yes may also include but not yet,
and sometimes always and forever,
more timelessly.
Never take the first
because everlasting keeps the last.

I guess what is first and last
is like figuring out similarities and differences
between First Nations and last natives.

And the first clue and last premonition.
Anyway, take only what you need
and no more than half what appears freely available.
Share cooperatively,
which is more positively, and democratically, sustainable
than competing side by side.
Re-invest respectfully,
with full ecological authority.
Never waste what First Nations have invested in you.
Remain as grateful as possible.
Become a national treasure,
in reciprocity for what you have received.
Succeed with the ones who succeeded toward you
and Earth will revolve Eden forests and habitats
fit for First and Last Nations forever.

Sounds like Yin planting
nurtures health care giving.

And swells like Yang harvesting
health care re-investments
of and for First United Nation ecopolitical grace.

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Dear NPR Trump Supporter

Dear Lady,

I heard you say that you still trust President Trump
to do almost as good a job as he says he is doing,
despite all the lies,
because “they all do that”,
just say whatever the audience of the moment
would most like to hear.

Really?

I believe Abraham Lincoln,
our first Republican President,
would be surprised to hear his Gettysburg Address
was “telling them what they want to hear”
in his best cheerleader,
go, fight, win voice.

And it seems to me that Thomas Jefferson,
one of the PreRepublican forefather type Presidents,
would object to hear his rather specific name-calling
Declaration of Independence from plutocratic,
and perhaps greedy, and maybe slightly cynical, Elitists,
was just telling the good King what he really wanted to hear.

But regardless of whether our quality standards for Presidential integrity
should reasonably be expected to go up,
now that we’re into our 40th-something incarnation of this Office,
or reasonably be expected to go down
after the first two or three, or sixteen,
or whatever
back in ancient integrity times,
when the premillennial pubic person was worth his/her word
in trust repaid.

How can you trust a President
who is significantly less sure of your right to health and climate care giving
and receiving
for yourself
and for our multiculturing grandkids,
than was the former President?
How is that going in a direction that you
and your healthy extended pro-life family,
your tribe,
neighborhood militia,
or paranoid klan,
or whatever
you continue to trust
as some direction that could be good enough
for those you love the most?

Health,
like racism
and sexism,
do not optimally arrive in individual-portioned packages;
they only sustain resilient climaxes
on interdependent through empty social scales
of qualities for cooperative wealth v WinLose competing pathologies.

Still Listening

Your Democratic HealthAsWealth-Integrity Advocate

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Dystopic Opiates

Paraphrasing Dickens
speaking of Great Expectations
through Pip’s distraining voice,
Our worst religious weaknesses
and political meannesses
and self and other deprivations
are usually committed
for the sake of avoiding elitist people
whom we most actively distrust.

On the other hand,
trust invites vulnerability
as distraining poverty embraces wealth,
honesty,
integrity,
expanding democracy
and cooperative co-investment.

Oppressive religious and cultural repressions and suppressions
are opiates of multiculturing people
When monoculturing elitists
offer religious opiate addictions to domesticating ritual
thereby over-ruling democratic spiritual experience
of daily natural and cooperative liturgies.

Polycultural non-elites,
like young organic gardeners of polyphonics
and ecofeminist transgendering designers,
thrive best within an alliance
of the gentle and broken,
vulnerable and open
to new cooperative intimacies,
gentrifying neighborhoods and families
and hearts
designed by rural-memory values
for nutrition that also nurtures,
health that also wealths,
climates embracing edible and richly colored landscapes,
mindshapes
of and for regenerating
future generations
of and for polycultural cooperative EliteNetworks,
neither opiated
nor nervously nirvanaed nellies
nor disappointed
that WinLose investment
didn’t turn out
as WinWin actively hoped for
through EcoPolitical Constitutions
reborn in and through each matriarchal ego/eco-doublebound
organic governing womb,
probably not so Dystopically Opiated,
at least in our moments of original cooperative conception.

Or, we could end less simply Dickens,
with Great Expectations for avoiding:
Our worst religious weaknesses
and political meannesses
and self and other deprivations,
usually committed
for the sake of avoiding elitist people
(and other divine personages,
distraining gods and goddesses)
whom we most actively,
LeftBrain dominantly,
distrust.

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NightFlights

From onset of puberty
on through my early twenties
I had frequent flyer dreams.

Like learning to ride a bike,
I was nocturnally certain
just the right balance of body focus and mind flexibility
would lead to inevitable lift-off.

Perhaps it was not a coincidence
that the more daylight time riding my first and last red three-speed bike,
the more likely I was to invest my nightflights
in flying forward and yet flexibly floating free
to soar with stars
float and spin with the moon
looking down and back and out at EarthTribe’s AquaMarine Home,
laced with also flying cumulus fluffs of vaporous white,
as ephemeral as identity myself.

Adolescent hubris,
I know,
to imagine floating flexibly
with just sufficient internal focus, balance, centering
as if a Bodhisattva Flyer
of space as time traveling
forward future
and backward pasts,
outer becomings swelling
with inner flying beings co-gravitating
contracting concentric balance,
dreams of humane-growing flight as inhalation,
internal as external exhalation
mindbody co-operation,
co-optation,
co-present floating flights
of dreamscaped transparent night.

In my dream
we remain free to fly,
free from mind v body polarities,
spirit-nature remains inspiring bodies,
spiral flying full-flight dreams
of economic
and political
and psychological
EarthTribe Revolutions.

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Surviving Chronic Eclipses

I was on my ambivalent fence
about who to watch watch the solar eclipse,
my alcoholic allies
or the designer THC corporate investors.

Wherever it was,
we read excerpts from two permaculture designers,
to get our minds ready for this great transitional event.

Robin Wall Kimmerer,
a matriarchal Elder Native American
permaculture designer and teacher
of ecofeminist political matriarchal cooperative ownership,
if there ever were such an actual RealTime person,
tells a story of two ways to harvest sweetgrass.

One eco-centered way plays WinWin
in cooperation with each grass clump’s root system,
cutting and pinching harvests
from the base of each individual sacred stalk,
while more WhiteMan-centered investors,
buyers and sellers,
play WinSome-LoseSome capital-extraction
in competition with uprooted and thrown away,
culled and harvested and wasted root systems,
ego-convex/eco-concave bilateral D/RNA-encrypted.

Here, root systems are devoured in pursuit of entitled rights
of ownership over individual nutritional-potentiated sacred systems,
including economic rights of commercial capital rapacious growth
through normative mutual Win/Lose legal political standards,

Using strictly LeftBrain dominant secular ecopolitical values,
for natural-spiritual dipolar dignity,
beauty,
(0) Soul bilateral truth,
(0) Sum cooperative RightBrain trust/competitive Either/Or mistrust Left,
(0) Core root-systemic synergy co-invested,
co-arising,
co-gravitating WinWin
nutritional Left/Right
Yang/Yin wu-wei
Tipping Point
Deep Learning
potentials.

Meanwhile,
David Holmgren,
possibly a LeftBrain dominant ecopolitical PermaCulture Designer
and Teacher,
and Family-Householder (0)-Zone EcoRooted Mentor,
reminds us
the Turtle Island Garden of Eden,
whether as consumer or harvester
or LeftBrain dominant co-investor
seeks a proactive Left with RightBrain correlational
WinWin primal relationship,
too often LeftBrain dismissed,
marginalized,
and misinterpreted to mean
your egocentric right to harvest
any alternative WinLose way
you passively and consumer-market oriented feel
is your natural-spiritual right
for Mother Earth
as SkyWoman
to breastfeed you.

Some of us parents
and teachers,
mental health professionals
and public health ecological cooperators,
preachers and politicians,
theorists and practitioners of health giving and receiving
as slow-growing non-pathological climates
and reweaving multicultures,
need LeftBrain reminders
we are always better off and on
to let ecosystems,
reforesting root systems,
take their ecological (0)Soul
bilaterally revolving
slow-grown course.

Others prefer invitations to RightBrain ecocentering harvests,
where root systems are all cooperatively sacred potential partners,
and only competitively merely secular opportunities
for WinLose divestment,
a natural-spiritual kick in the ass
by the fear of a vengeful Patriarchal God of EgoMongering,
and/or by our natural-spiritual love of co-investing
with cooperative Matriarchal Earth,
to wake us Left with RightBrain up
to act to save our bicameral sighted selves.

These two responses to WinWin empowering ecopolitics,
over Yanged LeftBrain Prickly (A. Watts)
and our under-Yinned RightBrain Gooey (also Watts)
come to Left with Right CoLateral CoPresence
in most of us
in different times and development seasons
of our youthful spring
through mature adult harvest times,
back toward (0)Soul bilateral origins of Design.

Permacultural development of forests and families
with Eden-WinWin ecopoliticians and parents,
planters and harvesters,
invest in small and great revolutionary transitions
as both interdependent ecopolitical consumers
and co-responsible and eco-authoritative
therapeutic producers of polycultural health outcomes.

This is our LeftBrain dominant Yang energy
revisioning RightBrain repressed sides
trying to more confluently,
less cognitive-affective dissonantly,
co-harvest
and co-design re-investments with Earth
evolving our deep learning root system
of our currently eclipsing
sacred ecological
global environmental
climate of competitive ecopolitical pathology,
absence of EarthCentric (0)Soul
bilateral ego/ecosystemic mindfulness,
YangLeft–YinRight
D/RNA ecosystemic fractal design rooted
WinWin (0)Core Sacred EcoLogical.

Too energetic Yang
against too slothful Yin
taking two double-binding cooperative breaks
while hypnotized by an oncoming chronic solar eclipse,
seeringly ultra-violent sun
perpetually embracing GrandMother Moon’s
serenely ultra-violet
brights and dualdark
(0)-Soul polypathic sums
and cores
and climates
and cultures
of bilateral Yang/Yin ecosystemic politics,
dipolar co-arising
moon over sun revolutions
by day,
while Elder Right dualdark
ReNewingMoon good breastfeeding night
of beauty
trust
bilateral non-verbal,
dipolar notnot inductive,
bilaterally eclipsing-arising truths.

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PermaCultural Research and Design

PermaCultural InFormation/ExFormation Research and Design

Introduction:
Zero SpaceYang gratefully greets YinBiLateral Time,
after several science and math collateral cooperations,
over and through and beyond metaphysical and special case physical centuries,
appear to favor cooperative dipollar appositional health
over ecopolitically competitive bipolar oppositional pathologies.

Literature Review:
See Creation Stories.
Especially those originating Sun’s dawning DivineYang Light
spreading across mists of revolving spirals,
yinFlow sacred double-boundary waters,
oceans,
seas within seasons
of CommonSquared speeds
for multicultural racing light
embracing wet octaves,
spectral ergodic,
ionic and bionic-fractal prisms,
thermodynamic balancing Creation Stories
of equivalent Patriarchy-Matriarchy
transregenerative pre- through post-history,
Original Hypostatic Unions,
ongoing more cooperatively than not.

Hypothesis:
EcoPolitical cooperative regenerativity
emerges from
and re-invests toward
Positive BiLateral Balancing Psychology.

Methods:
PermaCulture Design
with Yang polycultural sustainability
through Yin-harmonic decompositional resonant diversity.

Deep and Sacred Ecology Learning Design
and bicameral practice of co-operativity,
EcoPolitically Incorporated,
divine-humane incarnated,
reincarnating co-arising dipolar convex
as co-gravitation dualdark concave,
WinWin CoOperative Game
and ReGenerative Systems Theory
of EcoPolitical Best Practice Methods
toward reweaving,
reforesting,
cultures of short- through long-term healthy wealth.

Results:
PolyCultural up and out, convexly informational co-intelligence.
MonoCultural in and down concave root-systemic exformational
toward downright anti-ecologically dissonant anti-empathic decay.

Discussion:
Is more internally and externally productive
of both short- and long-term healthy outcome optimization
over LeftBrain dominating bipolarizing bicameral Debate.
Definitions:
Debate requires competitive skill sets
used and refined toward WinLose ZeroSum monoculturing outcomes,
disintegration.
Discussion invites listening before speaking
non-violent skills for further delineating
potential WinWin integrity
of NotNot Zero polycultural
polypathic
polyphonic
YangEquiValence = NotNot YinAmbiValence incoming consumption
toward EitherOr with BothAnd harmonic outcome production.

Conclusions:
Yang 3D space polynomial static geometrics
octave double-bind Zero-PrimeCore Fractal-DialectalDynamic Relationship
with Yin 1-BiLateral notnot polylinear wu-wei path
of wave-spiraling EcoPolitical Tipping Points
and Waves,
Bull and BearCub Embryonic Markets,
LeftPatriarchal and Right ElderMatriarchal EcoNormics,
Deep Learning EcoPolitics of Gaian Systems.
.

Acknowledgements:
Perelman
B Fuller
Euler
LaoTse
Golden Rule
Golden Ratio
Golden MultiCultural Elixir of Mother Earth
multiculturing sha-wo/men and gospel wizardish witches,
mothers and GrandMother Moon
feeding in and out
prime relationships
between and among light c-fractal
and dualdark dreamscape RightBrain
timeless ultra-violet (0)Sum nights.

References Cited:
LeftBrain SpaceTime Taoism
RightBrain RealTime Zeroism
bionically secular/sacred ZeroSoul co-arising,
nondual ZenTao
of EmptyEgo
revolving fractal spirals
for Interdependent ThermoDynamic
Earth DoubleBoundaried
Special Case
CoOperative CoLateral Balance.

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Here As Now

Yang is polypathic health-strength Here,
ego-convexly witnessed,
while Yin revolves Earth’s Four thermodynamic spiraling seasons,
together Zero-tempered wu-wei Sacred Now
within Earth’s cooperative natured Here.

As Positive Polynomial (1)
is to dualdark (not,not) Polypathic-Polyphonic [-,-=(+,-)] fractal bilateral) 0
WinWin ReGenerative-CoOperative EcoPolitics,
TitHere for/of/with/over/under co-arising nondual TatNow.

This primal relationship,
within each 0-sum moment,
within MotherEarth’s sacred ecology
projects both back through Elder RightBrain interdependence
and LeftBrain’s secular-agnostic mistrust
of futures not yet hoped for,
of pasts now underground
with worms and RNA root systems
in a cognitive-affective dissonant understoried world
where only above ground anthro-centered lives matter,
while below, as above, grows fading pathological climates
of dualdark clouds and dusts and rusts
while we remain both secular Left
and Sacred Right
talking past each other,
rather than speaking through
Prime PolyCulturing EcoTones,
anthro-salient as sacred bicameral Earth,
as above,
so below,
as past,
so shall we become
and notnot become future EcoHarmonic.

 

 

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My Guardian Angel

I suppose,
as a pretentiously self-uberespecting Wise Elder,
I should be alpha-embarrassed to admit
my youngest son,
unable to speak or even sign,
unable to even successfully chew and swallow food,
unable to walk without warm-embraced assistance,
is also my guardian angel.

Without him
I would undoubtedly forget
each day and night
is a re-newing challenge
to laugh with others’ screeching terrors
and shared miseries of sobbing tragedy,
to listen patiently,
maintaining eye contact as best you can,
as long as necessary,
appearing to actually be interested and following,
or, even better,
actually become totally immersed in hearing
resonance and dissonance and timbre,
resolution and irresolution,
rhythm and patterns of song and dancing relationship
and absence of healthy co-relationship,
all before we speak,
or squawk,
as in the case of my guardian angel,

Who also occasionally graces us with shared laughter
about how silly we all are together,
or how great the front porch breeze feels
up against the birdsong.
My nearly egoless zero-sum WinWin mentor,
my youngest sacred graced perfection son.

How would I ever have survived his sister,
who is my Egyptian Princess AlphaPharoah BiPolar Bitch,
in a kind of a Nubian DiPolar Witchy Wu-Wei,
if you know what I mean.
Kind of like living with a five-year-old Donald Trump
if he were also a fifteen-year-old transexual
with bipolar oppositional bitch disorder.

I just read that to my guardian angel.
He didn’t think that was funny,
so I thought I would share it with you,
while he’s still listening,
in his guardian angel graced way.

We each take only what we yang and yin need
and do our best to cooperatively re-invest
all of it,
including the ecopolitical shit.

 

 

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All Dancers Matter

Those who pray by marching
can pray alone
in endless competitions.

Those who pray while dancing
can only pray together
for timeless cooperations.

Hate and fear can only angry march
side by competing side
in uniformity of lock-step supremacy.

But love and compassion
can also truth and beauty dance
and sing
in full hope octaves
of multicolored harmony.

Resonant solidarity of ballrooms
and street performers
singing and chanting and drumming
good news gospel resonance
rather than bad news mono-marching hate.

We can sing and dance cooperatively
to angry patriarchal elitist marchers
more effectively than merely speak in not-kind shout,
and across,
and back and forth,
flow anthems up and out of all inclusive love songs.

This singing dance can,
with enough harmonic polycultured voices,
become sustained ego-happy filibusters
through marching hate,
marathons of love
proactively singing and dancing
alongside those marching through dualdark fear and anger,
inviting them to rejoin
our dancing gospel choir.

For every hate-mongering military march,
we have thousands of love-mentoring lyrics,
and,
therefore,
potential dancing lyricists.

Anger and marching paranoia are mutually competitive
double-binding allies,
as are love song and grace of dance mutually harmonic.

We can choose to march and shout ourselves apart,
but we would more democratically,
and gracefully,
prefer to dance and sing our cooperative ways together.

Those who pray while dancing
can only pray together
for timeless cooperations.

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Dancing Through Thin Margins

There is an old and wise saying,
Take only what you need
and use everything you take.

We often consider the first part,
or at least make occasional stabs at simplicity,
but the last part is less frequently said
or thought about
as essential to healthy vulnerability.

If we don’t use everything we take
and have been given by others,
then we can be sure
we have been given, and perhaps taken,
more than we need.

Taking only what we need
sounds obvious and transparently ethical,
perhaps even aesthetic
in purity of harmonic intent,
yet more mysterious
and richer
and deeper
when we remember
that life itself,
and human life even evolving more so,
is lived in margins,
double-boundaried spaces,
places,
times,
seasons of growth and decay.

Earth’s marginal soul
is living soil and water,
surface wind and fire storms
and swells and ebbs.
RNA and DNA regenerate
on and within this thin biosystemic sphere
between atmosphere
and dead bedrock.

Life, as contrasted to not-life,
is a marginally placed process
of learning to take only what Earth offers
and gratefully using everything as cooperative gift.

Life derives from prehistoric photosynthesis
on Earth’s evolving and devolving synthesis
and revolving skin.
And our senses, all five,
each take what we need of this synthesis
to LeftBrain adapt
and RightBrain adopt
what our thin margin offers us
of and for a healthy simplicity
yet wealthy diversity
of synthesizing double-boundaried life through death.

Humane life is evolutionary
within Earth’s marginal organic boundaries
as we choose to use everything
our RNA and DNA Elders
have gracefully and phylogenically offered us
to swim and walk and fly
within Earth’s bountiful health boundaries.

Humanity defines what Earth has given
as marginally sufficient diversity
and is uniquely poised on a constant multicultural edge
to fully delineate,
acclimate,
creolize,
know polypathic gratitude
for this polyphonic boundary grace,
to deeply digest
and warmly decompose
every sensory gift of Earth
we take in
through this vulnerable ride
between natural birth
and spiritual revolution,

Taking only what marginal wealth
we need
and using every double-boundaried health
we gratefully receive.

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