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Watering Local Gaian Grace

One of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating

Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements

Well fed and watered
to empower and enlighten interfaith
action and reflection,
song and dance
liturgical and fire-circle
contemporary-indigenous wisdom

Is to explore together
how and when to work around
and with patriarchal clergy leadership.

Even if a skilled multicultural facilitator
invites a lay-leader on-line discussion group
of cooperative environmental health concerned parents
and teachers
and preachers
and secular/sacred town leaders,

Even if a restorative justice advocate
for cooperative predator/prey dialogue,
steeped in non-violent communication deep listening experience,
were to invite a like-minded reading circle,
and/or a singing/dancing multicultural liturgical celebration planning committee,
and/or an organic community gardening and composting neighborhood
interfaith movement
toward local and regional food and health resilience projects,
and/or tool and transport and home sharing cooperative management,

By asking faith community leaders
to commit to on-line dialogue
for a specified number of events,
over an agreed upon period of time
in weeks
and/or months
and/or years,

CoInvesting in strongly StraightWhiteMale privileged monocultures,
like degenerative caste systems,
like capitalism,
like competitive partisan debate patriarchalism,
like either/or deductive LeftBrain debate dominant thinking
and not so much intuitive, contextual, interdependent,
interfaith dialogue feeling,

Priests or evangelical preachers and rabbis,
and all religious professional teachers,
both economically and politically dependent
on corporate faithfulness and integrity,
will, at best, select their most powerful surrogates
to represent and speak with their home faith communities.

Instead of starting with clergy meetings
to inform and invite faith community buy-in,
maybe it is our revisioning Public Health Emergency time
to go directly to the local newspapers,
to localized chat rooms,
to Facebook pages of local congregations,
to City Hall on-line conversation boards,
to the local utility company,
to parent-teacher dialogue rooms,
to volunteer Sunday/Sabbath day teachers
and deep listeners,
to community gardener websites,
to library chat rooms,

To any and all local byways and on-line direct highways
to connect
and reconnect with local feminist/ecomatriarchal political leaders
and faithful everyday practitioners
in the League of Women Voters,
the NAACP,
Adult Education Curriculum Screeners,
Senior and Youth Centers,
wherever we might discover,
recover memories of supportive youth
and women’s circles,
book reading rooms,

Wherever we might still look for education that is deep listening
non-violent
and Right/Left bicameral dialogue-friendly.

Where are these potential ecofeminist
green cooperative
co-investing religious and humanitarian educators,
multicultural facilitators,
polycultural nutrition and communication moderators,
polypathic mediators of spiritual context
for natural health and integral wealth-resilient
experience,
empowering and enlightening resonant compassion
planning circles?

Let us now invite each and all responders
to a Zoom meeting.
Offer an initial agenda
for an Adult Education
Public and Personal Health Empowering Event

CoHosting gratitude for humanitarian/divine grace
to share compassion interfaith held,
to take care of,
to feed and water
our cooperative
co-invested green passions,
our interdependent reweaving songs
of EarthDay journeys,
energy,
dance,

NonViolent compassions
natural and spiritually indigenous wisdom
restoring egocentric lack of peace
by restorying our co-investment
in systemic EarthJustice
rather than stigmatizing xenophobic hysteria

By expanding empowerment-model dialogue circles
to actively enlighten this healing process
of win/win

To shrink our unenlightened
polarizing debates
in public unhealthy squares
of uncivility
and private unwealthy stuckness

In webs capitalistic
LeftBrain dominant anthrosupremacist
when recognized as both eco-politically disempowering
and ecologically unhealthy
and theologically bereft
of our own everyday ecofeminist natural experience
discontented and impatient
with sectarian monoculturing apartness
quagmires
gumption traps
repeating verbal sticking points,

Regenerating energy democracy progress
only to reactivate
degenerative elitist-professionalized,
kinda bureaucratically patriarchal sometimes,
lack of emergency power public health disaster fluidity.

Now has become then and when
moving to seeing
planning,
cooperative budgeting,
and incubating installation of song
and liturgical dance inclusive performances,
reformances,
preformances
sectarian AnthroCulture unformance

By compassionately listening
for spiritual/natural peaking experiences
co-arising healthy wealth green communions
of egocentric
and ecosystemic bilateral
bicameral health and safety restorations

For EarthGreen Peace,
for Cooperative Justice
through interfaith direct grassroots dialogue
engaging local ecofeminist leaders
of nonviolently repurposing
interdependent EarTheoLogos

Sometimes polytheistically Green Muses,
Sometimes monotheistically Red,
Sometimes transubstantiated full
and empty,
Yang inhaling
and Yintegral exhaling together,
restoring and unstoring,
restorying health
to unstory red dominant anger
demonizing
LeftBrain historically predominant
absence of Whole
Holistic MatriSpiritNatured NonZero

DNA interfaith four-season/strand stewardhip
of Earth’s cooperative co-inviting
co-investing
co-empathic
polypathic
polyvagal neurosensory communication systems

Preferring win/win positive organic Paradise
of co-passions
non-violently communicating
by reiteratively recycling
revolving
spiraling dynamic FullOctave Beauty becoming
compassionate local public health communities

Still capable of sabbath fire circles
celebrating our healthiest full-diverse cycles
to co-enlighten EarthPower.

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Pandemic-Climate Health Recovery Team

In Colchester, CT,
and possibly in your town too,
we have a LongTerm ReCoVery Committee
looking at 20/20 prevision
for post-pandemic climate health revisions
for wealthy local and global EarthJustice.

So, what have I noticed
that might be economically
and ecologically win/win useful?

In a post-pandemic
post-Trump StraightWhitePatriarchal-capitalist cabal,
post-BusinessAsUsual monoculturing economic climates
of All-Or-Nothing
Either-Or
Win-Lose competitive health-care,

We over-value
fundamentally left-brain privileged subconscious
and/or unconscious bipolar Lose-Lose
absolutist
supremacist
xenophobic
anthropocentric slimates;

For sorta virally nasty primates
and for our actively curious win/win compassionate
engaged allies
restorative justice and peace mediators
co-invested witnesses
co-empathic cooperatively co-mentors?

For political,
ecological,
and possibly even win/win systematic theological,
mutual
and eco-spiritual,
physical
and metaphysical,
compassionate verbal
and non-verbal
therapeutic mediating communication systems
at our local bioregional level.

  1. Our natural and internationally commodified food
    distribution systems
    are less cost/effectively efficient
    and less environmentally friendly
    than old-fashioned
    local cooperative gardens and family farms
    organically planned
    and community implemented
    to deliver fresh locally grown
    cooperatively-owned,
    produced
    and privately
    and commercial-public
    health and wellness wealth consumed.
  2. Chronically stressed
    by social-polarized politically
    and economically divesting
    unraveling distancing,
    human nature looks for more multicultural ways
    to reconnect with nearby domestic
    win/win healthy and safer Animated Natures.

I have neighbors who had to take a number
to adopt a rescued dog.

I have neighbors whose household income is so reduced
they could afford to continue pet health care
cooperative consumer-owned insurance payments
if a local vet petcare network
with sliding fee and volunteer time-equity payment plans
were available.

I suddenly have a lot of neighbors
who are way more cooperatively invested
in the win/win companionship
of their healthy non-mask wearing dogs
and cats
than they are in masked
or unmasked me.

[Which is OK
because I’ve found myself reduced
more recently seduced
by the sexiness of a MotherTree
standing starkly now this autumn
in Her scandalous scaled
unmasked
unleafed
vulnerable
transparently communicating
nudity.]

  1. I was waiting
    at least six feet apart
    in the Goodwill line
    eighteen miles outside Colchester
    remembering a mom
    who is also an Economic Development Commissioner
    observing that Colchester lacks
    clothing
    and household goods retail
    because we are a population under-scaled,
    not yet over-infested with win/lose big-box
    retailed
    bought-and-sold
    corporate monocultural
    capitalist economic systems
    overpowering cooperative networks.

And I’m remembering
all the consumer fun I had,
when my kids were still children,
shopping in good-used consignment shops;
a more suburban version
of Goodwill
cooperative-urban.

Then I remembered Colchester,
a new location to me
moved in during this pandemic,
is quietly rural
and village bedroom community,
where sweaters
under and over my arms
wait to travel with me
to our new home;

These may well have come
from Colchester to Norwich,
waiting to travel back again.

I wonder
what it would be like
to have local clothing and household goods
shopping options while riding bike
to a local CoOp and ConSignment Shop

Where good used stuff is further discounted
for CoOp consumers and re-salers,
owner co-managers
include a multicultural/disabilities
human resource savvy
LongTerm Win/Win RePurposing Team.

  1. I also noticed
    I have become so horribly contained
    by our national and international addiction
    to win/lose partisan debates
    and vicious circle entertainments
    and mutually antagonistic
    economically viscous capitalistic political assumptions

I forget Earth’s more Whole EcoSystemic
Win/Win regenerative economics
politically empowering,
cooperatively mediating,
mentoring long-term restorative
resilient regeneration

Through Her long-term climate
of health/wealth-care
cooperative wellness trends.

I’ve been listening to local candidates
for democratically healthy leadership positions,

Noticing how many are attorneys,
trained well by and for an adversarial
self-advertising debate
left-brain dominant
punishing win/lose competitions
in eco-political
non-communicating
non-virtuously imprisoning
partisan debate

Rather than discussing
long-term reconnecting peace opportunities
for local/global
ego/eco-compassionate co-investment.

I also remember
one of many recent zooming conversations
I’ve tried not to have
since Marching 20/20

Listening to an attorney
retrained by win/win-seeking
restorative justice mediating
therapeutic process
progressively mentoring more of a deep listening
multiculturally intelligent
bicamerally balancing
good secular/sacred,
ecological/theological/neurological

Interfaith news
re-ligioning eco-political compassionate communication
for cooperatively empowering
community developing
health/wealth-care systems

And collaboratively enlightening
wealth/health care EarthJustice
local/global
poli/economic
polypathic win/win
cooperative network development.

Colchester
must already include
attorneys
and public/private health-care financial investors
and business LeftBrain dominant win/lose
non-fundamentalistic moderators,
more win/win evangelizers,
mentors anticipating other multiculturally ecosystemic thinkers
and collaborative feelers,
deductive/inductive balanced teachers and parents,
preachers and win/lose penitents
capable of 20/20 envisioning/revisioning
win/win compassionate communication

For healthier and wealthier
resilient,
indigenously and multiculturally resonant,

[post-pandemic lose/lose,
post-win/lose
anti-ecologically misanthropocentric risks]

For Long-term regenerative
health/wealth-care,
post-pandemic climate restoration

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Supremely Courted Systemic Feelings

I believe it was Alfred North Whitehead,
an early developer of cognitive systems thinking,
who observed frequent miscommunication
and confusion
and chaos
over bilateral complexities
of Set v isolated Individual issues
within a systemic set
of inter-related issues.

This comes to mind
as I listen to another lose/lose partisan debate
about democratic U.S. civil defense
of appropriate constitutional law
and socially egalitarian order
during this current SupremeCourt
public badgering
bullying
verbal ballistics.

A question is asked
in defense of
an individual health care policy
scheduled to soon reappear
on the constitutionally controversial
democratic health care
and resilient wealth defensive
Supreme Court docket.

Yet the democratic historical system
of evolving eco-political enculturation
education
expansion
win/win reflection
co-invested viral multicultural infestation
global and local peace restoration
(not so much win/lose pontification)
is seldom explicitly voiced
as a shared discussion experience
bicamerally favoring global health outcomes
through mediating and mentoring
compassionate communication safety.

In part
because systemic questions
frames
contextual intelligence
curiosity about responsibly held concerns
are better processed
more democratic-health accessible
more empowered
more enlightened
through open-systemic dialogue
than closed win/lose individualistic egocentered debate.

A central multicultural systemic question
has to do with the U.S. constitution
as a de-contextualized
de-historical monocultural dogmatic document
of a closed set democratic rights tradition
both static
and fundamentally originalist
as Democracy’s Holy Grail

Standing apart from a regenerative EarthSystem
of expanding
enlightening
empowering
democratizing win/win co-empathic history
extending our family
and sacred tribal
and secular state consciousness
to include all public life-health systems
for restoring justice
and compassionate peace-felt communication networks.

Which was more the multicultural value mindset
of Enlightenment Era
constitution-signing
U.S. StraightWhitePatriarchal ForeFathers,
largely left-brain dominantly educated
and competitively rewarded
for verbal debate acumen
more than more right-brain
ego/eco-systemic thinking and feelings
potentially win/win healing
more than win/lose further elitist wounding.

Declaring democratic health
interdependently determined to promote optimal
integral well-being
by turning away from

Autonomous apartheid
hierarchical defensiveness,
patriarchal,
supremely narcissistic
from-above
closed
unchanging
divinely designated elite monoculturalism
monotheism
egocentrism
anthropocentrism
of a StraightWhiteMale
made in God’s patriarchal capitalist
win/lose jealous and punishing
retributive,
and not redemptively re-distributive,
EarthHistoric System

As if a ProDeath Network
of compromised competition choices
too comfortable with military-industrialized
win/lose defense of democratic nationalist constitutionalism
rather than win/win compassion
for democratic global natural/spiritual
bicameral
bilateral
binomial communication-empowering systemic health
evolving
revolving harmonically resonant Constitutions
accessible to past through future optimizing
public and climate health wealth

To, eventually,
as historic multicultural consciousness expands,
and restorative egalitarian justice systems evolve,
as RightBrain interdependent enlightenment flows out,
and as LeftBrain ego/eco-centering empowerment strengthens,

Become a truer
more multi-goodfaith balanced,
healthy systemic democracy
of and for all residents,
humane natures
and divine spirits,
people and plants
and bioregionally cooperative
win/win
healthy systemic
local through global planet.

A better systemic question
for a healthier democratic nation
and Earth:

How do you support
the continuing eco-political WinElite and WinNonElite
emergence of empowering health care giving
and enlightened wealth care receiving
within your own growing
resonant and resilient
multiculturally co-empathic communicating
EarthJustice system?

Or are your mentoring
and modeling aspirations
for healthy interdependence
for wealthy multicultural democratic values
somewhat less enlightened
and more disempowering
than supporting our original democratic experiment
in ongoing self/other GoldenRule
evolving co-governance systems?

Responsible and co-responsive,
vulnerable and transparent,
actively curious and quietly courageous,
win/win committed yet good faith humored,
anti-unrepentent predative monoculturing systems
by multiculturally favoring
restorative healing democratic justice

For all God’s sacred creations
voices
climates
cultures
held in original historic
pre-historic,
verbal and non-verbal and pre-verbal
healthy democratic World SystemicView
and View of EgoRecentering
CoAcclimating
CoPassionate Communicating mindbodies
of sensory reception
collaborative absorption
synergetic digestion
neural-integral multicultural communication
systems
invoking organic individual
yet integrally singing and dancing
resonant
and resilient,
sacred
and secular,
theological
and ecological,
internal
with external,
egocentered
with ecosystemic voices.

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Sacred Earth Undone

Earth feels undone.
Not only incomplete,
but now unraveling,

Undead
but not resurrecting,
not fully alive,
not healthy enough
to listen for sacred survive
whispers, ReWind
ReGenerate
ReConnect

What Gaia has joined
ego-centers within ecosystems
must not secularize
disconnect natural analogical likenesses
inviting spiritual
metaphoric
profound illuminations

Of
and for
complex empowerment,
full living regenesis truths
beyond unsustainable
undead
anthropocentric
left-brain dominant
human ego-isolating
supremacist economic
politicized ways

As if we are each a struggling
undead YangGod
unraveling toward our individualized mortality,
unable to ever become done

With self-creation
self-imagery
self-empowerment
self-enlightenment
self-stimulation
self-resurrection
self-climax
self-instruction
self-improvement
self-development
self-health
self-wealth
self-worship…

From where
and when
originates this undead
undone SelfQuest?

And to where
and when returns
YangGod’s yintegral spiraling
multilaterally reforming
DNA seasonal structural systemic shadow
soul of organic light
energy
regenesis powers
of wealthiest communing?

Global and yet local,
external wealthiest EarthClimates
and internal multiculturing
health undone
undead
polyculturing promise
of and for regenesis.

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