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Snow Falls Up

Snow falls up
to those already on their backs
yet still open for looking up
as others watch down,
but not also up.

East meets West
whether I start
east
or west
or north
or south
where East and West
remain fractally
practically adjacent.

Adjacent balance
co-arises
dawning East
with settling West
and not competing
for attention
against one invested way
or other,
ego North WiseElder
or eco South Wild AthleticAdolescent

Playing planning games
networking
sacred healing restorations.

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Consider the Lilies

Natural systems
have much in common
with spiritual development networks.

However,
faith systems
can retain Western dualistic,
and less healthy, distance
from Nature’s nutritional revolving systems.

These,
WesternNature
and EasternSpirit,
are each two paradigmatic faces
of this same, yet sane, Sacred EarthTribe,
one Eco-Out Sacred Creation
and one Ego-In Secular CoCreator
of Creation UnFolding Stories.

Ecological DNA systems
co-arise theological
nutritional networks.

 

Food justice
reduces restoring magnanimous
and infinite nutritional mercy
to starving bodies and souls
down to food as no more than secular fuel
for equal humane-divine GoldenRule rights
and WinLose wrongs.

While nutritional democracy,
PositivEnergy Democracy,
hopes to become
not just our justice media
but also our whole
and holonic
sacred mercy message

Multicultural vocation planning,
pedagogy for restoring ecotherapy
to healthier ego-taste
and touch,
sight
and listening,
fragrance
and resonant deep learning

Nurturing WinWin Justice
for all six double-binding
secular inside with sacred outside
pedagogical
ecological DNA
theological RNA
senses.

If God
is light
and warm love,
then flowers follow God
healthiest
in full polypathic
polyphonic
wealthy bloom.

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Outdoor Classrooms

Learning about light and dark
about nutrition and toxin
about birds and bees,
about conductors and insulators,
pitchers and catchers,
producers and consumers,
does not happen best
inside school buildings,
she said
with some impatience.

Who is “she”
dear?
You left out the beginning
of our story.

She is Gaia
MotherEarth
Anima Mundi
Green Woman
SkyWoman,
Grandmother Moon,
Diana…
I’m not sure…
She has many PositivEnergy matriarchal names.

Yes,
and some not so nice ones
too.

Careful,
this is a family audience here.
Wouldn’t want to alienate
our natural wildlife sponsors.

OK,
so why are inside human habitats
not so great for learning
similarities and differences
between secular nature
and sacred nurture?

I’m not sure that’s what she said,
dearest,
but…

That’s OK.
We’ve talked.
I know that’s how She feels
nondually right with left
WinWin.

In contrast to deductive LeftBrain
EitherPlay/OrWork Business as SoldOut Usual?

Back to our creation story
Why are we less likely to forget
Nature outside
co-arising Spirit inside
outside than inside?

She said
Because outside
invites consumers to reward producers
by cooperatively inviting consumers allied with producers
to return to reproducing healthy lives
next season
as previously and polyculturally agreed
since time began
with revolving space.

Meanwhile,
in our inside school voices,
we speak of giving monocultural Consumer Demands
rather than Consumer Invitation,
curiosity,
PositivEnergy return on CoInvestments.

And Farm and Garden Production Schooling
without equal attention to
Farm and Garden Consumption
of healthy nutrients more
and pathological toxins less.

And physical and mental exercise
without co-arising sacred health vocational awareness
of WinWin economic and political consciousness.

So why do we try to teach kids
with primary inside school voices
about secondary outside school nutritional choices?

I guess that’s FatherSun’s
monotheistic responsibility
for producing inclement weather.

Well, maybe.
But I don’t think for a minute
She doesn’t contribute
her fifty cents for every dollar
invested in ZeroZone balance
too.

Do you think our Green EcoSchool
for restoring Ego-Eco Balance
might support
how outside Nature and inside Spirit
work in Left-Right Commons
more importantly
than how they don’t work so well
apart,
fundamentally dualistic?

You mean evangelistically
retributively at war with each other
about who will wear the authoritative orthodox pants
and who is reduced
to eisegetical pretty panties?

Something like that.
My big take away
from how She was speaking:
Natural and spiritual environments,
cultural memories,
paradigms
have much more PositivEnergy say with each other
about long-term healthy wealth
than do trivial Left-Right
NegativEnergy differences,
dissonance,
disarray,
climates of growing indoor
so also outdoor
pathology.

She won’t like it
if we end with
a NegativEnergy
punishing message, dear.

Right again,
Left revolving
Open PositivEnergy Doors
into outside-inside
nature-spirited classroom voices.

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Organic Infrastructure

Infrastructure.
Such a cold ugly word
like a patriarchal weapon,
a technology
substituting for a warm organic nurturing network
flowing through a great river
of eye-to-eye revolving time.

Pointing out,
perhaps in as well,
systems, like people,
can support Positive Nutrition
and Energy Outcomes

And

Negative Toxins and Dissonant Waste,
And usually some of both;
Win-some,
Lose-sum total.

Lose face,
a bit of life’s potential
ego-health
eco-wealth
co-identity,
dynamic animality,
organic co-humanity,
conscious network cognizability,
resonant resilientability,
organic sustainability,
memory multicultural existentiality,
becoming being ability,
ZeroZone reality,
WuWei rationality,
YangOut with YinIn co-empathy.

These are all OpenDoor gifts
I WinWin cherish
as I rise
and sit
with dawn
and settling dusk;
not losing,
but gaining double-binding face.

Infrastructuire
of revolving Light Energy,
pointing out,
and maybe Positive Deep Learning in.

Some see only LeftBrain infrastructure
where others also feel RightBrain
Sacred MotherEarth networking.

But everyone without LeftBrain monoculturing pathology
can see and hear both together
better with outside voices
and nurturing environments
than merely LeftBrain inside voices
longing to belong
on planet Earth
in this operatic homeschool
within this epic time.

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Peace Not Mentioned

I was listening to our Commissioner
of Economic and Community Development
speak of how happy she is
our State and Federal tax revenues
now subsidize two,
possibly even three, submarines
per year
rather than the mere one per year
of the bad old unemployment days.

Her enthusiasm
continued over growth in military manufacturing
of fission and ballistic pathological outcomes
like huge hauling helicopter contracts

And all types of war mongering
and war supportive
nurturing assets,
arms racist buildups
providing three thousand new jobs
in Connecticut.

Admittedly jobs at perpetual risk
of costing three hundred thousand or more
loss of lives
of limbs
loss of organic livelihood networks
for restoring therapeutic multicultural health,

Loss of trees
and plants,
Loss of healthy soil
and water
and air.

This potential liability side
she did not mention
nor was it clear,
from tone and rhythms
of BusinessAsUsual voice
if she could even see
and hear such cooperative economic dissonance
with infusing love
of public health service reality.

She did not mention
any growth in natural LEED construction
for affordably resilient community housing.

She certainly omitted growth
of community college training
for natural built construction
of and by,
for and with,
cooperative self-help empowerment
builders becoming proud co-housing
nature-spirit goodfaith residents
growing shared organic
community developing
gardens.

She did not mention
thousands of new jobs opening up
to build bicycle lanes,
woodchip and bark trails
connecting GREEN EcoSchools
to goodfaith communit centers
perennial gardens
grazing greens
cooperative Commons
permaculture designed municipal parks
hosting outdoor classes
connecting
PositivEnergy CoOperatively Owned Democracy
incoming investment
for restoring climate therapeutic
Continuous Quality Improvement
public and private
secular and sacred
healthy wealth outcomes.

I suppose because growth in these sectors
is not newsworthy in Connecticut;
These cooperatively-owned differences
between mere public service non-profit sectors
and public nutritional empowerment models
toward WinWin ecopolitically fusing health-wealth outcomes

Replacing all those unnecessary
loud and stinky
helicopters
and ballistic-disempowering submarines.

The happier her competitive WinLose bubble glowed
as she enthused on and on
about manufactured growth
the sadder I became
about her ballistically manufactured tumor,
her absence of WinWin health service humor.

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GREENing Our Neighborhood

Permaculturists,
like Taoists
and Buddhists
and Hindus, etc.
Consider neighbors
extended and respected family,
ZeroZone Kin,
regardless of zone status
near or far,
regardless of species,
regardless of living
or gone
or not yet arrived.

Dear Neighbors,

I make no proud claims
of embracing a GREEN lifestyle,
making green integrity choices,
No claims of wise and sacred ecology
or even GREEN party membership.

Yet,
as a Permaculture Designer
and as a hopefully therapeutic
more than helplessly threatening parent
of hurt children
becoming young adults
in a growing climate of pathology,
Earth GREENS
(great rational ecological-economic news services)
are among my healthier aspirations.

Permaculture Opera
speaks part of my journey
from our urban capital
often slighting our polluted Connecticut River
living water artery
of enculturing history

To this neighborhood
where the Yantic
and Shetucket Rivers
of Norwich
become one in the misnomered Thames River
whose mouth speaks of New London
where once fished Iroquois
Pequots
Mashantuckets…
blue herons,
dolphins,
bears,
eagles..

I am interested in where these Rivers
speak from and for,
and where they are heading
and learn to listen on their banks
for their best resiliently ballasting interests
in where we have gone
and come from,
time’s nurturing ebb and co-arising flow,
and where humane nature
is healthy v pathology going,
regenerative v degenerative
cooperation v too competitive
WinWin v WinLose.

Perhaps some day in Norwich
and New London
and Groton
we may go and come back again by water taxis,
bicycle rickshaws
and tricycle grocery carts,
horses with and without buggies.

Bike and pedestrian only lanes
and downtown blocks
connecting GREEN EcoSchools
with organic community gardens
built by PositivEnergy Cooperatives
with co-invested political and economic nutritional leaders
who graduated from local EcoSchools
appropriate to Norwich’s diverse
historical
health faces:

As Original river forest habitat
GREEN nature-spirit built environments
will allow,

As meadow greened and gardened,
grazed and harvested
as in our colonial era,

As Civil GREEN Rights and Elitist Wrongs
underground our freedom railroad
and civil war volunteerism
would expect respect
with cooperative gratitude,

As we restore our national health identity
after AntiGREENing of Vietnam
and MiddleEast
and Korea
and…

So this copy of Permaculture Opera
is my signed gift to you,
inviting you to share this journey
if you neighborly will.

And, if you read
and care to speak further
about these pieces
or about a neighborhood
Permaculture Design Cooperative
or about restoring a therapeutic
Norwich ClimateHealth Cooperative
composed of those still in PositivEnergy Democracy School
and those who have grown out
long enough to know
we cannot continue
with NON-GREEN
BusinessAsUsual,

Here’s my email address,
my http://www.gdill52.com blogsite,
open to comments
WinWin dialogue,
cooperative skill development.

Speak with me,
invite me to listen
to what we might do better
together
than side-by-side
apart.

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The Admirable Admirer

I did not understand his visit,
it’s timing
or purpose
nor he mine, I suppose.

I would have asked
but Why?
felt better as a mystery
or magic
or in-between
explored by mythic listening
and passionate watching.

He was tall
slender
muscular without too much diesel Yang,
Graceful
and ecstatic
to see me again
after all these in-between years.

I was on an urgent mission
to rescue two wounded children
from uncertain surgical government
absence of healing care
but had to stop
as he approached
as if I were the only person
in all of Sacred EarthTribe
he had ever loved,
could love,
would love

But “should love”
that was my question
about why this visit
now
when I was so otherwise committed,
exhausted really.

Before I could explain
about my perennial rescue mission
he wanted to share with me
how remarkable his friend
who adopted
two complexly hurt children.

His enthusiasm was contagious
and comforting
What I needed to hear
to feel I merited his handsome smile
happy eyes
his intimately frank appraisal
of having been found good,
worthy in more ways than one
if I know what he means.

If he is this excited
about his friend
on a new rescue mission
for climate health of innocence
how enthused might he become
when I tell him
I am a struggling therapeutic parent
of four complex and discarded post-millennials,
inching toward our peaceful revolution,
restoring self with other love
integrity.

But he was gone
with the morning alarm
before we had time
to consummate this fabulous exchange
of mutual admiration.

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Taoist Green Education

Playing WinLose conservative
rather than defaulting WinWin Green Liberation,
sets up the ultimate epic double-bind,
a NegativgEnergy
anti-trusting reverberation
against Earth’s co-gravitation.

If I choose to Win alone
then I loosely choose LoseLose.
If I choose to Win together
then I tightly,
more richly,
densely,
resonantly,
polyculturally revolve
PositivEnergy resilience.

Taoist systems thinking
associates Yang dominance
with LeftBrain deductive-languaged WesternRed dominance
and secularizing patriarchal dominance;
Three dominants in one.

Yin,
here and now,
plays a dipolar co-arising
(like the apposition between 0 and 1,
black and white,
female and male)
double-bound role with Yang’s repression
of RightBrain inductive
non-violent
Eastern Shadow (Jung, Plotkin)
dualdark (yin-yin)
mythopoetic
cosmological
sacred ecological
bilaterally theological
matriarchal
WinWin choice.

This Ego-Eco humane-divine association
of Yin with RightBrain archaic intelligence
is implicitly matriarchal
but explicitly felt diversely,
correlated with how we Ego-gender identify.

So,
for Carl Jung
Yin’s RightBrain archaic Green person
was more of a Yang/Yin
Left/Right archaic man.

This LeftEgo-RightEco ZeroZone Green relationship
with archaically felt memories
unfolds as restorative health wisdom
of full-moon Wild Indigenous matriarchs
more than retributive reductive judgments
of full solar-sun Wild Indigenous
monotheistic
patriarchs.

Yang/Yin wu-wei EarthSoul
derives nondual patriarchal-matriarchal
Nature-Spirit
Left-Right
Ego-Eco
WinLose as EitherOr deduction
BusinessAsUsual over
WinWin as BothAnd sacred inductions.

Where Freud’s id
feels patriarchally retributive
punishing
threatening
a FemaleFreud super green matriotic power
resembling Bill Plotkin’s Wild Green Indigenous One
could resonate with
Yin-Identity
WinWin eco-theologically nurturing
greening Ego
toward healthy re-emergence
into mature Win YangLeft
with Win YinRight
balancing CoBeloved Authority,
Beautiful elegant integrity
liturgy
ritual
pedagogy
bilaterally balanced educational systems,
parenting skills,
Green enculturation.

To preserve RightBrain ecological wildness
and LeftBrain theological diversity
of Earth,
Yang air,
Yin waters
reweave WinWin reasons
for Yang/Yin seasons,
DNA-RNA bilateral-binomial 1-0 co-intelligence.

Systems thinking includes informational mapping
nutritional ZeroZone scales
on regenerative/degenerative territory,
health/pathology feedback loops,
double-binding ego-in
eco-out
Yang/Yin messaging identities.

 

As NegativEnergy costs and risks of yin-suppression
go up
like gasoline and oil extraction prices,
ecological dynamics of EarthFirst vocations,
nutritional balance opportunities
for PositivEnergy cooperative investments
in therapeutic health
map our Negative divestments away from Wins
for humane EgoNature
and toward Losses for divine archaic Green EarthSoul.

NegativEnergy invests too RedYanged
away from Cooperative GreenCommons Sense,
ultra-violet non-violent values,
polyculturing norms.

NegativEnergy disinvestments from EarthFirst health
depend on poor people and marginalized species
to subsidize costs
to long-term PositivEnergy Democracy
of RedYang with GreenYin,
and not competitively against.

Once WuWei thresholds cross,
our Yang human unnaturally-built environment
goes from a PositivEnergy asset
to a Yin suppressing
NegativEnergy liability–
limiting reforesting healthy multicultures
with future PositivEnergy regenerators.

Taoist resilient health thinking
helps me remember
and cooperatively WinWin manage
growing more resonant sacred eco-theological relationships
away from cognitive-affective dissonance
NegativEnergy,

To grow more Positive WinWin
and less Negative WinLose,
To re-emerge with each dawn
more therapeutically healthy,
so less threateningly pathological
to EarthFirst Yang/Yin Prime CoRelationship
my internal Secular-Sacred ZeroZone
fractal
seasonal
colorful development.

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Cascading Windows

The first of Earth’s life support systems
to go
was crude oil
Then natural-spiritual gas
Then easily accessible commercial-grade
and scale
coal.

Then wood
for crude construction.

Then electric grid energy
MiddleEastern
then Western
then Eastern colonizing infrastructures
pathologically cascaded
down
into local-cooperative democracy scale.

While internally cooperative infrastructures
of active love
beauty and grace of
and gratitude for
PositivEnergy Democracy
expanded exponentially,
driven by both Positive cooperative investments
and Negative loss divestments
of WinNow to LoseLater
long-term self disempowering deficit,
rather than WinWin co-redeeming,
options.

Then clean drinking water
pathologically cascaded
away from where it was needed
and toward where seaside communities
entire coast lines
were redrawn,
and boundary issues
of dry nations
and barren refugee states
faded away
from multi-mediated view.

While internally WinWin
cooperative infrastructures
swept revolutionarily in,
like a grateful sacred tsunami,
economic and political cascade,
social and psychological and historical reweaving,
theological and ecological co-regenerative,
reaching toward livable climate needs
within
as without

For health
as abundant multicultural EarthWealth

With Permaculture Design
ego-ecotherapeutic ZeroZone centering practices,
Psychological PositiveENergy ReStorations,
GoldenRule Therapeutic Justice,
NonViolent, local through global, Peace

WinLose LeftBrain Either/Or
Nature/Spirit dualistic fundamentalism
cascading toward WinWin Both/And eco/theological gratitude,
Positive LeftRight ProLife GreenEnergy STEAM Systems,
gratitude for trust and beauty attitudes.

BadNews closed doors chosen first
are GoodNews open doors
cooperatively chosen WinWin last
yet healthy best.

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Trading Trees Into Timber

I see someone wants to trade
eight hundred year old trees
for timber.

Clearly,
not someone who knows how to listen
to WiseElders.

When these trees were mere seedlings,
they were already exploring how deep and rich
is Earth’s flowering flow
of nurturing rivers.

Most people in that ancient time
were monotonously sure
Earth is simply,
fundamentally,
even evangelistically,
flat.

And
eight hundred years later
still clueless
how deep and rich
is Earth’s flowering flow
of multiculturing sacred time.

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