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Tao of Optimal Health and Climate Care

Nursing and nurturing
can often be used synonymously.
To nurse a baby
is first to nurture a cherished infant.

They share a nutritional history
of healthcare giving
and receiving,
delivered best and most durably
when care works coincidentally both ways
in all Win-Win bilateral directions.

Up and down and laterally across hierarchies,
networks,
dialectal frames,
nutritional and health-care intentional environments,
healthy communities,
extending families,
multicultural tribes,
polyculturing landscapes.

Nursing,
unlike surgery,
is not done as well to and for patients,
from above and without,
and is best done within nurturing gratitude for sufficient patience;
hands on bilateral therapeutic relationships.

Surgery,
like the word abortion,
is about severance,
causing Win-Lose severing effects,
cutting out our regretfully accepted
as necessary loss,
minimizing pathology
as an acceptable exception
to our Hippocratic Oath,
our Golden Rules
of economic and political health-care etiquette,
laws
and just wars against pathology orders.

If healthcare giving and receiving
becomes monopolized but supremacist surgeons,
determined not to accept risk of failure
on their competing against death and decay watch,
within their sphere of authority
and responsibility
and lifeskills,
then supreme surgeons might declare warlike strategies,
wars and fights against
our own holistic multicultural historical integrity
of identity itself, our humane egoselves,
severing us from all other interdependent species
and revolving-nurturing eras
of sacred historic nature.

Surgeons too deductively distracted
by chopping up
and shooting at
and stabbing at
and enslaving
and hating
and fear-mongering
and terrorizing our own Ego-polyculturing selves.

Surgeons medically over-invested in healthcare severance
from our own EarthNature healthcare vocations
and shared nursing identity
as restorers,
as nurturers,
as caregivers
and receivers
healing Embodied EgoCenters within
our nurturing Sacred EcoHome.

Surgery will tolerate cutting hands off
as retribution for theft and greed.

Nursing is most abundant
when hands are left and right on,
inviting appropriately grateful
and humbling therapeutic touch,
voice on,
resonantly singing in multicultural chorus,
feet on,
investing in co-redemptive restorative directions,
minds within
Earth’s bilaterally revolving Sacred Homes,
bicamerally within,
dipolar healthcare
nurturing v stabbing-in-the-competing-bad-back climates without.

Appropriate proactive therapeutic touch
avoids Win-Lose aggressions,
political isolations
and threats of violence,
social severance of the EliteSurgeons
working against NonElite Nurses,
diagnostic surgery of what MedicinalEarth has conjoined
to organically co-nurture together.

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Humbling Gratitude

Monasteries,
both Western and Eastern,
traditionally practice

The Way of Poverty,
A trusting Truth of Chastity,
And a Life of Obedience

To both spiritual and natural authority,
laws,
rules,
practices
both political and ecological
within their diverse sectarian cultures.

Yet this tripartite theme
of natural/spiritual discipleship
follows a nutritionally mentored practice
of both Western Messianic Princes of Peace
and of Eastern Bodhisattva Matriarchal PeaceWarriors

Preaching a Way of Gratitude,
Practicing a Truth of Compassion,
Projecting a Life of harmonic Humility

Within and Without;
within human nature
and also throughout all Earth
as SacredHome, oikos, Eco
with many subclimates,
diverse landscapes,
interrelated species
of and for Earth’s Gaian sacred nature.

A Way of Gratitude
embraces
a Life of profoundly democratic Humility,
avoids plutocratic ego-supremacist hubris,
and grows most abundantly within multiculturing Truths
of compassionate Win-Win choices.

Humility of Ego
avoids fake piety,
finds fake patriotism profoundly sinister and unfulfilling,
grows co-passionate within gratitude’s SacredHome embrace.

Gratitude of Ego
grows polyculturally co-invested with Humility
in awe of all sacred Earth’s Regenerative Natures,
Cultures,
HealthyClimates,
Wealthy-Fertile Landscapes.

And here,
in this sacred EarthSpace and Time
of timeless mythos-logos NOW,
YangLeft EgoCenters
and YinRight EcoCentrists nutritionally embrace
co-passionately nurturing,
restoring ego-peace as also eco-justice.

So too, individual MotherTrees
of Life and Death
reforest Earth’s ecojustice
and cooperatively matriotic peace.

Not merely a Win to Lose
Way of economic poverty for some,
but Win-Win Truth of compassionate wealth for all SacredCreation,
Life of natural-spiritual obedience and abundance
within ecological and ethological laws of meaning
purpose
ritual
celebration
polypathic wonder.

Within full-diastatic
CoMessianic-Bodhisattva harmonic multicolor,
LeftBrain science of cooperative economic humility,
RightBrain arts of compassionate polyculturing health,
conjoined within
positive good health Faith
actively restoring ego/eco-therapeutic Win-Win gratitude
incarnating Sacred Gaia’s karmic Grace.

 

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Nurturing SacredNature

What LeftBrain Yang learns about nature,
by standing apart from nature,
RightBrain Yin explores within Sacred Nature v Secularizing Pathology.

LeftBrain Yang
sells us Win-Lose choice
of therapy restoring peace, someday,
or retributive traumatic self-righteous justice,
sufficient for today.

RightBrain Yin
would offer ego/ecotherapy within,
with sacred natural-spiritual
nondual Yang-Yin primal relationship.

Yin darkly offers this deeper sacred ecological gift
of cognitive-affective dissonance,
anti-enthymematic noise,
resistance,
depressing witness,

Yin lightly invites divine co-presence,
basic attendance,
noticing Win-Lose of YangLeft
against YinRight crises

As also Win-Win LeftEgo
within RightEco
sacred Gaian opportuinities
for restoring cooperative
bilateral balancing
health-therapy

Rather than Yang’s dominating habit
of dismissing,
undervaluing Yin’s matriarchal WisdomCircles
seeking com[passionate]
poly[culturing]
natural-spiritual outcomes.

Our political economies of choice
toward Win-Win cooperative light
or competitive Win-Lose,
not quite so bright, defaults,
preferences,
instincts,
choices,
proclivities
invite restorative therapies
of RightBrain’s Sacred Tao-ecology

With ThreePoint Trinitarian thermodynamics
dipolar appositional vectors,
nomials,
variables,
dialectal structures,
morphology,
ethology,
cosmology,
revolutionary transubstantiation,
wu-wei dipolarity,
positive psychology,
biology,
sacred ecology
of Win-Win bilaterally humane-divine
ego-eco
Left-Right

DNA-RNA ecopolitical solidarity

Fractal holonic 4D RealTime relationships,
double-binding
within full-color and sound
scaled spectral octaves

Singing and dancing together
but not merely toward or for poor victim sinner Others,
and certainly no longer degenerating away from
restoring co-redemptive Others,
but Win-Win singing PermaCulturing NatureSpirit Operas,
already at bicameral hand
and foot
and mindbodies
within bilateral Earth-consciousness

Teaching and learning
speaking and hearing
giving and receiving
deep sacred healthy-wealth,
compassionate nurturing ecology.

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Dreaming Within Myselves

Dreaming by myself,
eisegetically,
I believe in LeftBrain dominant deductive intelligence
furthering Yang-enculturation,
culturing,
enculturing toward
secular rational capital-investments,
self-righteous protagonist relationships
within Earth’s continuing regenerative revolution

Revolution more powerful than
evolution’s climatic threats
and crises of degenerative
Lose to Lose
dismay longing to belong within depression.

By contrast,
listening within all MatriarchalWomb Elders,
exegetically,
we co-empathically feel RightBrain recessive inductive intelligence,

Yin-squared sacred DNA
spiraling phylogenic enculturations,
incarnations healthy multiculturing
and excarnations pathologically greyscale

Together, YinRight with and for and of YangLeft
restoring full-color ecotherapeutic EarthMother-Father
revolutionary
cooperative
Win-Win eco/ego-rational balance.

I am not saying,
I do not dream,
nor believe,
nor feel,
nor is it my limited polypathic hope,
that these word-choices
and dialectal appositional dipolar labels
must also become yours,
or could
or should
or will ever become yours
for restoring healthy subclimtes
within LeftBrain dominance
or even RightBrain suppressions,
within your body,
throughout your mind,
or even our Not-Not ZeroSum-Core
Win-Win Gaming
SuperEgo Soul.

Soul enthymematic within cooperative good faith
in healthy life,
over bad faith for pathological aggressions,
ego-defiance,
socialized retributions,
and death as final just spiritual-natural reward.

I am hoping
my word choices
and appositional dipolar Win-Win coherence
is also what you might sacredly and lovingly,
wondrously and awesomely uncover
as absence of cognitive-affective dualistic dissonance

Your own human ego-nature too isolated
severed
from EarthMother’s umbilically sacred
harmonic RightBrain DNA-RNA Wisdom

DoubleBound prime fractals
dipolar octaves
of spectral
spiral
revolving Win-Win potential integrity
within mutually trusting Nature.

For my deductive-dominant LeftBrain
this feels like too much to ecotherapeutically hope for,
and with.

To my inductive-recessive RightBrain,
this dipolar nonduality is Win-Win
Great Transitional
interior-exterior
sacred choice
for Yangwealth
of ecopolitical Yinhealth.

And so I awake
each dawn of Earth’s anthropogentric distinction
between space and progenitor Time,

Awake within each new holy day for restoring cooperation
over violence of capital over-investment in competitions,
punishments of others
for Win-Lose ZeroSum defiance,

Awake to hope for restoring what healing we can
within each communication
each mutually chosen transaction
woven together
until dusk comes.

Dusk comes
with dreamtime to compress
all our rest,
advent for tomorrow’s
Sacred EarthDay.

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Final ZeroSum Frontier

Even if we were to win
these hunting
and killing
and fishing
and devouring
and gathering
and hoarding
and victimizing
and offending
and criminalizing
and punishing
holy wars
and sacred causes,

We would lose
our vocation
to mentor and facilitate restoration,
ego and ecotherapy reforestation,
healing,
health,
measured in polycultural health outcomes
by all democratically respected
and trusted to remain interdependent
species.

Extended even to the vipers
and poisonous spiders and ivy
and choking evangelical fake-Christians
and jihad self-terrorizing fake-Moslems,
and fear and hate-mongerers of all bad faiths,
even those Pharisees and Sadducees
already too aristocratic,
rich and powerful capital hoarding
for their own healthy extended family care-giving
and receiving love
and cooperatively owned and managed grace
and positive synergy and karma.

Deniers of NatureMystic Messiahs
and Bodhisattva PeaceCircle Witnesses
are rabid wolves.

Those who choose
to Lose
at shallow capitalism
to Lose
at deep ego-ecological wisdom
are fake-redeemer sheep,
with retributive justice discipleship ways,
concerns,
Hellfire issues,
and over-invested in Win-Lose means
to successfully deny
their intrinsic bad faith in the reverse of evolution.

Those who defer to WinWin evolution
toward
mutual good faith polycultural expectations,

Those who defer to Win-Lose
anger and fear management
through self-perpetuating postponement
of Win-Win commitment.

Those yet to eventually succumb
to denying Lose egocentric body,
then Lose anthro-centric mind,
then Lose ecological multigenerational
DNA-enscribed cooperatively organized Soul,
organic meaning,
synergetic purpose,
sacred vocation,
regeneration,
restoring sacred ecological climates,

Lose reforesting evolutionary Win-Win history,
reweaving spiraling 4D RealPrime
SacredTime.

Stuck back in pre-history,
before traumatizing others
became a Golden Rule offense
against all WindNature-WaveSpirits.

If we were to win
all our anthro-centric capital-hoarding games,
we would lose our ego-centric
Win-Win revolutionary
NonZero-Sum Infinite
PolyPathic Soul.

 

 

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As Stakes Grow Deeper

Stakes Raise Higher

When the stakes
are life on Earth,
all else is a diversion.
Susan Murphy Roshi

Here we have co-invested stakes
nondualing claims
of sacred and secular health causes,
and disinvested destroying diversions,
perversions,
distortions,
dismay,
retributions.

Susan Murphy is a Zen teacher,
so diversions from shared stakes
are Empty LeftBrain Egos,
like sound
and sight
and feeling
of one hand clapping,
slapping away life’s co-investing stakes,
invitations,
resources for gratitude,
positive health attitude.

Interdependent stakes,
claims of concelebrating life as healthy
over ego-supremacist death as pathological,
are RightBrain intuited
Personal Knowledge,
eisegetical sacred feelings
that each Ego extends
our other hand of EcoEarthOther clapping
in co-arising nondual return.

Both hemispheres,
each sweeping
slapping
clapping
back and forth,
emptiness and interdependence,
YangStrength and YinFlow,
FatherSun and SacredEarth’s HolySpirit,

Now, in this critical transition time
in-between Eden’s restoring ecotherapies
and FallenEden’s re-attributing ego-traumas

Ego pride of accumulating and hoarding investments
in this personal life
does to family and community health
what AnthroPride of disinvestment
away from Earth’s divine ecological nature
does to homosapiens
and all sacred DNA-enscribed cousins,

And to our RNA fractally resonant holonic stakes
for eating,
refueling,
absorbing,
restoring rhythms and seasonal light-dark patterns,

Including sounds of two bicameral hands
concelebrating sacred life
on
and within
and flying
and spinning restore-destroy spirals
above
and beyond
SacredEarth.

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Artifacts of Destiny

Each ego identity,
whether of busy bee
or slacker sloth,
recreates its uniquely sacred eco-Other,
as mutually capable of Win-Win intentional experience
and memory
toward mutually appreciating capital investments
in further living artifacts
through each personal life
both cooperative and competing
so far.

So
every shrinking traumatic death
fades,
exforms this sacred values and disvalues Universe,
uniquely space-timed
cooperative and competitive capital investment patterns
of confluence and dissonance
with RightBrain intuition-flowing
sacred EarthNurture.

Nurturing this forest
or ocean
or desert Universe
of living light and mysterious transitions of spectral color,
dying dark and cold duller
dissonant memories,
dreams and subterranean horse-whispering
nutritional-toxic stuckness nightmares,
light and polypathic reflections
and dark and monoculturing degenerations,
beliefs and monolithic trusts
in artifacts of past life investments
and disbeliefs and hates
for artifacts of evil disinvestment,

Observations of interdependent Blue-Green Earth
with blind ignorance of RightBrain’s Red InternalWomb
of Resonant Pools
remembering artifacts,
bicameral flow-streams
and diastatic-static pumps,
bilateral aptic neural systems
with active-positive hopes
for regenerative DNA-fractal
sacred-seasonal Grace,
gratitude of and for each spacetime identified LivingPlace,
each moment
with regenerative artifacts,
Sacred Left with Right ReMembering.

And LeftBrain memories explicated
of capital investment artifacts,
habitats,
intellectual and curiosity co-investments,
natures of YangStrong natural hearts
with YinFlow spirits
co-arising bicamerally self-identifying mindbodies,

LeftBrain natural
while RightBrain also elder sacred Matriarchal Wisdom,
pre-languaged.

Actively Alive
in this continuing revolution of Earth,
Father Sun
and GrandMother Moon,
devolving yet another humane-divine
twenty-four hour period

Alive in this co-invested secular-sacred capital moment
of which we are each personally
and politically
and economically
and ecologically
a holy-holonic
reflective-active portion

Right with Left co-arising
Four-Prime dimensional RealTime
memories
and their artifacts
of personally continuous history

Non-ZeroSum
WinWin
deductive/intuitive
health and wealth trending
mindbodies

With self-identifying memories
within uniquely remembering Universes,
profoundly interdependent

In this inter-relationally cooperative network,
more than competing chaos,
of capital investments
and our regenerative
and degeneratively autonomous artifacts,
our underdog
understory herstories
and too-violent dominating histories,
we live a literal Win-Lose
Mutually Assured Destruction
Desecration
radically wild MADness.

Madness
is not living resonantly
toward restoring therapeutic reality.

Each Moment’s
Great Transitional Invitation
to re-awaken into full bicameral awareness
of SacredEarth
as our cooperatively regenerating Home,
including our competitively capitalistic degenerating disinvestments
with increasing climate pathological risks

Risk of Western deductive languaged capital over-investments
too-patriarchally dominant Yang
against Yin’s restorative ego/ecojustice and peace.

Each moment
resides
through this reflecting RightBrain pond,
a Bodhisattva double-binding skin
of transparent lake surface
noticing interdependent landscapes
and emptying subclimatic transitions
toward ever further pathologies,
now in nutritional color
or toxically repressed shades
of fundamentalism’s black and white
divinely-expired mendacious oppositional
Win-Lose capital investment play
to eventually Lose-humanity
and Lose-divinity.

And then to Left with RightBrain act
just in Tipping point time
to avert played-out ballistic catastrophies
of subclimates without
and degenerative landscape trends
within

Within LeftBrain’s
deductive-reductive
slow-growing toward restoring peace and justice
regenerative DNA-RNA Solidarity
of Blue-Green Earth’s
bilateral ego/eco-balance,
Win-Win NonZero Sum

Sum
of regenerative
PlusPlus
OVER
not-not
double-binding
appositionally dipolar
fractal games developing
capital-investment artifacts.

Where YangTit for YinTat
Win-Win default
regulations for cooperative GoldenRule capital investments,
avoid Win-Lose dominations,
Western enculturing theories
of evolutionary dissonance,
Might as DivinelyInspired RightWing EcoPolitics

Sliding toward anthro-centric run-away capitalism
as divinely-inspired destiny,
Benign Democracy of mutual trust,
graced from Above,
rather than also from
DNA regenerative reflections
intuited within

Within time’s moments
to ease off Tit-dominant retributions
and defer to YinYin Tat
SacredElder restoring therapeutic ponds
confluently binomial double-binding
resonantly fractal-seasonal
health’s polyphonic rhythms
and light/dualdark patterns
of and for ego/eco-justice.

Justice of and for Blue-Green Sacred Earth’s continuing
Win-Win artifacting moments
with further trusts
in capital investments
producing and cooperatively consuming
cooperatively-owned nature-spirit co-inviting artifacts

Artifacts of and for Earth’s polypathic remembering
Each ego identity,
whether of busy bee
or slacker sloth,
recreates a uniquely sacred eco-Other,
mutually capable of Win-Win intentional experience
and memory

Inspiring mutually appreciating capital investments
in further living secular-sacred
outside-inside graceful artifacts
of trust as also splendor.

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Better Climate Questions

It has been said
There is no bad question
asked with cooperative integrity.

While those asked with competing disintegrity,
mendaciously,
are not really questions at all.

That said,
conceded as asked and answered,
Some questions remain
more ecologically and economically,
politically and personally,
publicly and intimately,
naturally and spiritually
more significant than others.
More urgent
in times of great climate global extinctions,
than mere national economic recessions.

I remember an economics class
at Yale
when the moderate,
academically and politically even-handed,
almost philosophically bipolar professor
argued with persuasion
about historically proven polarizing dangers
of this growing divide between rich
and poor,
within nations
and across international economies,
still-emerging gaps
and cracks
and fissures
between upper-middle stasis
and revolutionarily unrested lower-middle diastasis,
with an evaporating populist median,
midway,
Tipping cooperative values
against competing disvalued Points
between these antagonistic two;
forming One Great Transitioning Divide–
plutocratic predators and cooperatively-huddling prey.

But,
I also remember his frustration
about economic scholars
not having a robust theory
to explain why
financial and political history
tell this story
without apparent evolutionary reason,
or intent to survive,
much less co-invest
in mutual thrival,
perhaps revolutionary gospel revival
of trusts and truths DNA-democratically held
and savored.

He could not explain why
the Democratic Party
has made more cooperative multi-class creolizing sense
to worry about this growing bad climate
while the Republican Party
has made mere plutocratic competitive nonsense
to deny historic significance
of growing traumatic polarization
between Elites
and increasingly segregated,
and marginalized,
and criminalized
NonElites,
assumed to be worthy of God’s further retributive justice
so poorly earned
by our own uncompetitive powerlessness,
lack of divinely-inspired wealth
or fame
or influence.

As Taoists,
or any healthy bicameral-bilateral permacultural developers
of any creed or color,
organically committed to investing only in Win-Win NonZero-Sum Games,
toward polyculturing-creolizing health-wealth outcomes,
we can see why this growing hyphenated economic divide
presents a growing disparate survival trend
for living Earth,
as habitable by humane-divine nature,
and increasingly inhabitable first for swarms of angry NonElites
whose children are at growing risk of death
by drowning
or fire
or being ballistic blown
off this face
of Green-Blue synergetic MotherEarth.

We can see why restorative ecojustice
grows a healthier climate
than a retributive Elitist egojustice
of punishment through non-competitive NonElite neglect,
disinvestment.

Economic models of national
and cultural history questions
seldom ask,
Is it appropriate
to believe economic values and disvalues
have a reasonable option
to become informed by ecological values and disvalues
or to irresponsibly ignore them,
even deny them,
to ignore our intrinsic and intuitive health-wealth interdependence,
as if Earth’s regenerative values and creation laws
were somehow alien and NonElite
as compared to humane-divine investment values
and wealth-defensive laws.

Organic farmers and gardeners
and nondual philosophers
and metaphysicists
and ethologists
and ecologists,
cooperative evolutionists,
and all EarthMothers
know there can be no healthy economic choice for any ego’s investment
that is an anti-ecological monoculturing choice
against Earth’s basic cooperative-synergetic
healthy creolizing
regenerating nature.

Ours is not to compete with MotherNature
but to cooperate restoring justice and peace
within EarthMother Tribes and Species
asking better richer deeper wider bilateral questions
beyond the last and upcoming fiscal quarter,
beyond the last and upcoming four-year ecopolitical term,
beyond the last and upcoming forty years,
beyond the last and upcoming four hundred years.

Buckminster Fuller
and Jesus Christ
and LaoTse,
among others,
have all economically and politically observed
It is the role of a health-invested society
to restoratively facilitate
cooperative ecological development of individuals,
to make it easier to become polyculturing outcomed families,
multiculturing cooperatively-owned communities
and nations of ecological MedianExpanding Matriotism
in equivalent dialogue
with economically co-invested patriots of Earth.

I remember an economics class
when our question facilitator
of deep cooperative ecological understanding,
passionately reviewed emergent evidence
of richly creolizing populist cooperators
against monoculturing elitist bigotry
and retribution’s too wealth-invested prejudice,
as if humane-divine
nature-spirit
health-wealth integrity
were questions
other than DNA prepared
within our ecological EarthMother’s Womb.

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Playing Old Maid

I recall a card game
probably extending back past the 1950s
called Old Maid.

There was also Authors
and a few other choices
less popular with me.
But Old Maid sticks in mind
as blatantly sexist
and ageist
and, for a country kid
in redneck rural Republican Michigan,
the most fun
of admittedly limited card playing options.

Whoever was stuck holding the Old Maid
at end of game
was the biggest loser,
for obvious reasons.

Who would want to be associated
with that old and useless appendage?

National politics in the U.S.,
all about the marketing, purchase, and sale
of two-year
and four-year terms of public greed responsibility,
increasingly reminds me
of OldMaid gamesmanship.

And, yes,
I don’t really mean gamepersonship.

This game for avoiding loss
of responsibility and authority,
loss of face
rather than gain of grace,
embracing mutual Wins
of shared commitment to health
and cooperatively prosperous safety,

This game in which the OldMaid
is played by aging fossil-fuel industries
played-out too often militarized
ballistic violence,

These OldMaid industrial choices
have most ballistically justified
plutocratic wars
inviting young,
and often most marginalized,
players
to live with losses to OldMaid political stuckness
in the name of patriotic duty,

Although not matriotic integrity
to our own healthy hands
for better Win-Win games
and political
and economic
and personal
and family therapy strategies,
less violently impinged by nationalistic traumas,
fear of losses
holding OldMaid over-industriously held cards.

No one wants to be in unlovely public office
when the last drop of oil
and last glistening gasp of gas
wears through now useless OldMaid pumps
and pistons,
unhappy triggers
and transdegenerational switches,
unlubricated OldMaid economic bitches.

No one wants to be in office
holding the last OldMaid dry-humped card
from a 1950s stacked deck
when 2020 revisions
change climate changing hands
into feminist story books
of how our generation
deliberately and stubbornly chose,
like stiff-necked self-chosen people
of OldMaids and PatriarchalMen,
counter-intuitively choosing the climate pathology card,
fascinated by our own death
and the death of our habitat
and the death of any future
of humane proportion and design,
rhythm and pattern.

When we have so many post-millennial cooperative Win-Win options
to actively hope
and act
and restoratively plan
and therapeutically draw climate health
for both ego and eco justice
and global peace for all,
including sacred Elder Matriotic Maids.

If only Old Feminist Maids and Matriotic Men
had written all required history
and civic lesson school books
and ecopolitical philosophy texts
and medicinal prescriptions
and legislated cooperative multicultural ethics
lesson plans
to practice
practice
practice
cooperation,

I wonder if having the Elder Matriot card
would have been how to win our Win-Win game,
and to do so,
would require letting go of all Old FakePatriot cards
of plutocratic,
and often patriarchal,
Lose-Lose economic-ecological exploitations,

Also post “ClimateChange”
known and named
as habitually competitive ClimatePathologies
longing to restore ClimateHealth.

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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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