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Addiction to RightWing Prison

A culture steeped in retribution
becomes blind to freedom’s contributions
accessed best through healing restorations,
trust,
virtual stuff
for democracies most resilient.

A society resisting love’s innovative brilliance
comic and jazzy improvising resonance
healing ecosystemic egos dissonant
from aquatic wombs of patient advent,

Adventuring winter’s iceflows of stark stuckness,
as impatient as a tongueless mess
stuck to a frozen metalic national goalpost
just as bells and climate whistles end recess
sound a new tune of chaotic harvest.

National prison lobbies
would lock up tongues and time
arbitrarily confining unconverted inmates lying
behind naked bars of self-isolation
and electric waves of competing institutions,
Walls against multiculturing opportunity,
defensive moats with hungry crocodiles,
black and white defenses against sinful lazy aliens,
and aggressive ballistic lobbyists
addicted to non-conversations
of fear and self-righteous anger,
marketing everyday all-white lies
of capital-hoarding omission.

Collective fears of punishing reparations
for sins against past and future poor regenerations
expands like melting ice-slow crystals
freezing fear escapes so many freedom wronged,
confined by greed against imprisoned selves
against relentlessly orthodox “Other.”

Mutlihappy revolutions of 2020 vision,
listening to prison’s sad social addictions
powering over
to rediscover yin-power with prisoners
together decriminalizing
desecularizing
retenderizing
pardoning humane nature
for past angry RedState patriarchal crimes
against Earth’s cooperative matriarchal freedom
green inspiring Spirit.

All of which causal root to reflective branches came,
then took off again,
to show
One WhiteHouse addiction
to a HillHell of competing prison power
is another’s enchantment
and/or disenchantment.

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Poverty of HealthCare

Poverty: Unusually limited access
to health,
nutritional poetry,
liturgical dance,
and positive-restorative energy resources–

The four WealthFaces of liberal love.

Poverty of Health derives from
and heads toward:
Win/Lose survival pressures,
crisis,
abscessed longing for peace revolutions,
NowTimed therapeutic resolutions,
HereSpaced restorations of democratic access
to health resources.

Health/Pathology Resources derive from
and head toward:
An incarcerating,
retributive short-term fix against Fear
OR/AND
Sanctuary restoration
through long-term WinWin multilateral therapies
balancing ego- and eco-justice desires for peace

Peace derives from
and heads toward:
Economic,
political
AND
ecological
AND
theological
AND
bicamerally ethological
AND…
not not polynomial
ZeroZone 4D RealTime
future-space/past-time paradise image integrity

Integrity derives from
and heads toward:
HealthyWealth
reversing trends in Figure 7.1
Racism and Mass Incarceration
Breed Fear,
in David Stroh’s
Systems Thinking for Social Change.

Social Change derives from
and heads toward:
Win/Win economic/ecological cooperative game theory
not limited to simple bilaterally reiterative loops–
multicultural dilemmas of continuing poverty
rather than ecstasy
feel free to liberally love apply

For success of each multiculturing party,
without loss to any party.

Win/Win Game theory derives from
and heads toward:
At worst, a financial OR ecologically empowering/disempowering
flat-line of current poverty trajectory
predicting a slowdown of insufficient nutritional quantities
and nurturing qualities of love-life.

Love lives derive from
and head toward:
Both Win-x enumerated subjects
and Win-y denominator health objectives
may refer back to multiple specific language re-creation events (x)
and real world 4D sensory-neural collateral experiences (y),

Language events and internal experiences derive from
and head toward:
Where x could be polycultural narrative choice
and y might invite ZeroZone bilateral/bicameral balanced consciousness
maps
enchanting/disenchanting systems
sanctuaries for dipolar/bipolar DominantLeft/RecessiveRight sojourners.

Sojourners derive from
and head toward DNA’s prescriptions
for HealthyWealth,
4D WinterNorth
allied with SummerSouth,
NewBorn CoOperative East
with PostAdolescent Colonizing West
breathing in
as restoring out,
marching in
poverty of anthrocentric doubt,
desire,
supreme divinity.

Poverty derives from Yang hubris
and flows toward Yin’s restoring WinWin
polypathic love’s outrageous courage.

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Democratic Poverty

I was listening to NPR yesterday
on my way to small green group ministries,
when I heard post-millennial Republicans
favor apartheid
while the contemporary urban-green Democrat
favors laziness.

I don’t know if this includes intellectual laziness,
lack of rigor,
and laziness about ecotherapeutic health,
but in either case,
this conflicts with my own experience,
regarding Democrats and lack of healthy motivation
but also of Republicans I actually know,
except perhaps my brother
and a Trump worshiping neighbor,
regarding apartheid as a fundamental religious constitutional right
to Christian evangelical colonizing supremacy
over all 3/5th former slaves
and other less fortunate criminals.

If Democrats are guilty of lazy love for restoring Earth’s
healthy subclimates,
both yin-side
and yang-outdoor voiced,
then what do we call Republican guilt
responsibility
lack of moral authority
to stop blowing each other
and trees
and Earth-habitat up,
both secular nature-systems
and sacred ZeroZone souls
of divine Matriarchal Grace.

When I arrived
to listen
and share non-verbal peaceful space
with my small green group alliance,
we sang and danced and spoke of connections
through active listening
rather than lazy lack of sufficient compassion
with suffering
and wealth of correlational enchantment
courageous coherence,
curious collusion,
collateral for healthy future prospects.

Then we each went home
in our own four directions
until we close our loops together
again next New Moon morning.

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Senior Luncheon Interview

YouthGroup interviews WiseElder lunch crowd

Notes:

(1) What do you recommend for improving our long-term health prospects?

Question met with quiet amusement.
“Honey,
I’m eighty years old.
My goal is to continue gracefully accepting my future losses.
I’m not sure that helps you.”

(2) Why have you done so well so far?

This is your idea of success?

When I was younger
I thought about healthy vocational goals,
like dancing and singing–

Ways to cooperate BothFun-AndWork solutions
stretching my more typical
EitherWealth-OrTired non-thinking.

It sounds like you found a long-term approach
for growing cooperatively healthy.

More of a daily philosophy
to not kill myself just yet,
than a long-term strategy.

(3) Looking back,
What healthcare choices would you approach differently?

Maybe I would look more toward future goals
to cooperatively thrive
To grow less frightened by past unfortunate competitions
to survive indignities of old age
in these paternalistic States.

(4) Looking forward,
Why might you choose
and not choose
to plan for long-term health for yourself,
for your extended family,
and for Earth?

I would include most plants as part of my extended family.
Although there are some aggressive weeds
to which I prefer to claim no kinship,
Republican or otherwise.

(5) When should we begin such long-term health planning
and development?

I’ve been waiting for eight decades.
Now, or even yesterday,
might already be too late,
even for my adult children.

(6) In what ways,
if any,
have you begun bringing your own adult childhood toward this great transition time?

Are you asking because you are young enough
to think you know the right answer?
Or because you’re old enough
to be curious about depths
and resilience
of early through late health development
for organic persons,
green plants,
and wealthy planet?

I am, I hope, just young and old enough
to be curious about why
those who plan for long-term planet therapies
also seem most likely conscious
of past health goals
competitively missed,
And others cooperatively still attainable.

Competitively missed goals…
Is that like old people without a shared nap-time map
of where we have been?
So feeling lost about tomorrow’s adventurous possibilities
for continuing long-term healthy sanctuary choices…

For me, long-term health planning is mostly about getting through today
and staying awake with you and your YouthGroup cohorts
on this journey toward WiseElder retirement.

I might recommend more healthy cooperation
toward achieving interdependent community wealth
more than RightWing toxic
competitive monoculturing aspirations.

For me,
and for us, I hope,
long-term climate goals
remain mostly about our extending family
on pilgrimate toward WiseElder Earth
as sacred Sanctuary
And secular communities
of cooperative
curiously continuing
health care futures,
More than competitively courageous and loyal Win or Lose
wealth hoarding
against my, and our, inevitable degenerating future.

(6) What happened to,
I’m eighty
with one foot in the grave already?

I reserve the right
to also focus on the other,
more curiously cooperative, foot.

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Seeking Sanctuary

Diaspora Dwellings

On my way into our sanctuary
this past Sunday morning
a woman I had met in choir
was strangely inclined
to share her family history.

Her dad came over from Ireland
because he wanted better opportunities
for his healthy future.

Here he meets his wife
and they have kids
who also have kids
now living the post-millennial nightmare
of what the TrumpCard worshiping U.S.
has most degeneratively isolationist become.

I mentioned that I had never been.
My made-in-Ireland newsboy hat
had only hung in U.S. pubs,
mostly not so green as we might wish,
and had only covered my North American dreams
of a more robust wealth
of future health
for myself
and my African American husband
and our four adopted brown-skin wounded kids
with mental and physical,
mind and body,
spirit and soul uncompetitive challenges.

Challenges now further threatened by bleak climate choices
to pursue RightWing Business As Assault
Competitions to extract Earth’s ecofeminist original values
faster
and faster
and harder thrusting against naked wombs,
angry and filled with fear
we cannot hoard enough power
against the Great Winter
of our own LeftBrain dominant
paranoid prophecy.

And increasingly schizophrenic,
don’t you sometimes inside-outside Voices think?
My new fellow diaspora migrant added,
cooperatively curious,
and not at all competitively overpowering.

Before cars
and planes
and trains,
Before carriages
and carts
and wheels
Irish moms and dads would never have imagined
their homes
as other than our future home,
as other than great-great grandkids home
as it was on into a distant WiseElder
health-rooting past projecting future health.

Diaspora dreams
would have been just for tribal survival reasons,
I suppose.
Which sounds eerily like how I feel
about my kids WiseElder future prospects
challenged by angry supremacist voices,
classically un-evangelical,
philosophically dividing sinful ego-natures
from virtuous eco-spirits…

Yet these are what God originally created together…
Well, I get sidetracked
when I gaze into this awesome abyss
of LeftBrain’s curious diaspora nature
returning to RightBrain spiritual sanctuary
of what paradise Earth could become
after Her diaspora integrity returns.

Where our children can EarthTribe thrive again
by cooperative work and play with our conservative challenges
mental and physical
theological and ecological
spiritual and natural
secular and sacred
liberal healthy while conserving wealth
of deep learning democracy
for challenged diaspora solidarity.

I think about leaving the U.S.
especially in the last couple weeks,
and the last couple years,
now that I think of empty hearts and diamonds adulation
while never once mentioning darker promises
of clubs
and non-elite spades for burying our drowned
and burned
and shot.

This feels less and less like a healthy
safe
cooperative democracy for my wounded diaspora kids
to learn how to play WinWin games
rather than WinLose patriarchal lies
against the cultural wealth potential of equality
for matriarchal
WiseElder
ecofeminist
healthy RightBrain curious climates…

Inclusive of wounded,
voiceless,
brown-skinned children.

Precisely.
Me Too,
my Irish diaspora friend
sadly added,
thinking about her own adult children
increasingly uncomfortable about their distance
dissonance
and lack of hope in co-investment,
fading faith in loyalty to EarthTribe’s diaspora
cooperatively engaging our co-migrating selves.

But my own dad’s
and mom’s journey
began in the MidWest,
and their mom and dads came from Europe,
and their moms and dads
came from migrant EarthTribes
before carriages
and carts
and diaspora enabling wheels.

Where could we go
that could guarantee safe and healthy water,
regenerate soil,
fresh and liberally democratic conserving sanctuary,
bicamerally resonant consciousness,
robust ecological with theological WinWin culture,
cooperative egalitarian intent and design,
restorative justice,
peace for planet,
plants,
and people?

I assume that’s a rhetorical diaspora question.

She invited me to a potluck dinner
in her non-Irish home.

I continued my journey
into our migrant gathering sanctuary,
wondering about souls and wonder and imagination
before curious carriages
and courageous carts
and even simple wheels,
when horses and trees were our whispering neighbors
and prophets predicting healthy grass and water
satisfying next seven regenerations
of challenged children
hoping for their healthy chances
to become tomorrow’s WiseElder sanctuaries.

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Green Dream Whispering

To avoid unnecessary oppressor and victim stuckness
in reiteratively dissonant looping
loopy voices,

To avoid interior and exterior terror climates
of self and other perpetual Lose to Lose
claustrophobic shut-down dismay,

To avoid dualdark lack of sufficient bilateral enlightenment,
once glimpsed
almost here…
there…

It might especially help our RightWing conservationist leanings
to draw up healthier ecologically secular designs
and yet follow theologically sacred processes
to remember love together
nutritionally awesome newborn-matriarchal in-between self respect,
pleasing curious childlike egos
with ecotherapeutic nurturing inquiry,
and sacred outdoor healthy wonder-empathy

It could help
to speak these early non-languaged experiences
dialects
discernments of WinWin outcomes held together,
passing democratic expert batons
of cooperative and restorative responsibility

It sounds potentially therapeutic
to invite pipes and breaths filled with cooperative opportunity
while gazing into multicultural community fire-circles,
waiting for drums and howls to mystically restart
song danced Full Moon co-opportunities
of night time secular/sacred liturgies.

To conserve ancient nature/spirit green
ecological theology celebrations
of and for Holy Matriarchal Spirit
radiating Grandmother Moon’s ultra-violet soul source
still whispering green ecofeminist birthed
nutritious dreams.

 

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Democratic Sanctuaries v Republican Industry

“Our schools are…factories,
in which the raw materials– [Win/Win hopeful] children–
are to be shaped…into products…
The specifications for manufacturing
come from the [pre-millennial] demands
of 20th century [corporate] civilization,
and it is the [competition] business of the school
to build its [robotic white] pupils
according to the [nature wins so spiritual loses] specifications
laid down [by naturally unspiritual disorder].
Dean Ellwood P. Cubberly
Stanford University School of [Fundamentally White] Education
1898

This does feel dated;
A caricature of post-millennial green ecoschools
for healing Earth
as a whole blue/green red-blooded therapeutic system,
sacred ecological home for plants
and ecotherapeutically cooperative people,
resilient bicameral students,
cooperative deep learning robust listeners
to outdoor theological classroom voices
singing more resonantly
restoring ego’s inside harmonic peace
through ecojustice Voices.

Because we passionately disagree with 1898
Big patriarchal robotic incorporated Win/Lose propaganda places
against active and creative multicultural Win/Win integrity,

We also agree with deep learning green STEAM outside classroom models
for healthier
more resilient
more nature-spirit integral education
for allied EarthTribe integrity,
secular/sacred learning solidarity.

We would please our democratic selves more
running cooperatively away
from Bored with MisEducation platforms
and dualistic personalnature v publicspirit loyalty parties

We will do resiliently better health care
giving and receiving
re-celebrating choices for multicultural climate health
over more and more toxic public storm and terror patterns,
Business as uncooperatively unusual outside
while approaching 2020 more vigorously Left with Right aware,
by letting go of 1898 LeftBrain ego dominance inside.

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Domestic Voices

Virile green voices grow longer
louder
lasciviously livid,

Commanding her domesticating mind
to cut them off,
trim them down to size,
to prune and shape
manipulate

Show them and her who’s in charge
cooperating together
at just right
and fresh trimmed length
of light.

Inside Sunday sanctuary voices
hum over and around organic prelude pipes
Hoping she will ring our sacred sounds,
domesticating diverse delightful choices

Inviting her restless mind
to cut them in,
grow them up to fit size
to enchant ecstatic re-creations.

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Don’t Expect Integrity

Don’t speak of God’s redemptive healing
while practicing idolatrous competitions in fear,
and self-righteous anger,
and xenophobic hate.

Don’t expect voices for democratic integrity
from bodies raised for overpowering secular mendacity.

Don’t listen for wealthy cooperation indoors
where speakers shout in supremacy against healthy outdoor profits
and prophets.

Don’t anticipate ecological health
where no theological wealth
has gone before
to prepare love’s way.

Don’t expect us to invite your messages
without prior investment in cooperatively mediating channels.

Don’t hope for ecstatic transport
without enchanting communion.

Don’t hold faith in secular wonders
without first finding a sanctuary
caring for sacred awe.

Don’t hope for celebrating outdoor public voices
without divesting of competing inside private tyrants.

Don’t speak of love
while practicing hate
with tools of fear.

Don’t talk
where you have not yet walked.

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Fear of Climate Success

Fear of Climate Success

If you’re like me,
which probably already reduces the size of my captive audience
to Zero,

Regardless,
if we’re like we used to be
when we were born
with all the potential integrity neurons
of the uniting universe,

Through childhood formed into bilateral rivers
for transporting Win/Lose toward Lose/Lose risky conclusions
and Win/Lose toward Win/Win opportunities
co-arising comparative information

Some neuron trails,
like stars in a misty night sky,
faint,
and only flowing from a causal Source,
somehow more wisely
and sacredly
and greatly elsewhere,
echoing through my ringing
singing integrity
dancing ultra-violet dreams
feeding productive consumer mouths
for articulating LeftBrain developing rivers
of segregated health isn’t necessarily wealth language,
logos.

Other tidal rivers form deeper wealthier underground streams
with diverse ecological
and theological
and analogical
and psychological
and political
and financial
orthodox Both/And Right Brain surfing health/wealth memories
of Both ZeroZone sacred Source origination,
And EgoZone secular mouth of re-creation
flowing in both upriver
and downriver
reiterating loops.

LeftBrain capable of Both/And returning to newborn infancy
re-noticing Outside Voices for ecotherapy
and sacred Celebration

Flowing neural latticed singing stars
shining out Win/Win WiseElder enlightenment,

Holding fire-circle wonder
co-gravitating/co-arising stars and flames
reflecting neural river trails of timeless retold myths
resolving and revolving anthro-cooperative
with eco-logos WinWin nature/spirit stories
co-habiting YangSourced Rivers with YinFlow bilateral returns
primal ZeroZone nutritional choices

Some deeply learned rivers
through orthodox ages of WinWin nutritional evolution
survive the culling of adolescent WinLose
military-industrial
competitively divisive
Either/Or
LeftBrain schools for producers
marketing to information consumers
longing for more robust Both/And hope

Hope remaining
despite lack of responsible faith
in history repeating ourselves,

Good news faith graces sanctuary from blame and shame,
unable to love our EgoClimates for who we are
so unable to forgive our potential EcoSchools
and GreenGrandMother elders
for not remembering to strengthen WinWin
potential Both/And
Cause/Effect
Yang/Yin
Patriarchal/Matriarchal
Competition/Cooperation Cultures
Ego/Eco
Ecological/Theological
climates cooperatively held
for improved bicameral polypathic rivers
of WinWin success.

Health,
inside wealth,

awe,
within wonder,

ecstasy,
predicting enchantment,

integrity,
searing love,

green,
with red,

black,
predicting white,

Either/Or,
searching Both/And,

deduction,
following induction,

reduction,
after seduction,

exhalation,
requiring inhalation,

causal,
when effective,

information,
foreshadowing exformation,

positive,
equal with double negative,

light theology
emerging from dualdark analogical ecology,

sacred,
sublimely secular,

out,
without in,

outside choice,
evoking inside voices,

Win/Lose,
suboptimizing Win/Win,

Yinhaling ecofeminist wombs
Yangforming ego/eco climates
co-arising dipolar integral success.

If your imprinting infant river-systems etched
and sketched
and stretched like mine,
which probably already reduces the size of my captive audience
to one EarthSoul multicultural ZeroZone
for WinWin nutrition strings of neural Right/Left
seasons of reasonable
responsible Both/And healthy energy
without either blaming EcoGods or shaming EgoCenters
for who we WinLose are
and who we WinWin choose to better climate become

SecularYang oceans of thought
with sacredYin
feeling life’s compelling choices
for All Loves Matter.

If you’re still like me,
already reducing the size of our cooperative
health/wealth risks and opportunities
to not not double-binding
poly-dogmatic ZeroSum
deep learning generations
of Earth’s normal ecoschool day
and night,
mythos
and logos,
RealTime entertainment,
and Timeless dreams of ParadiseMusing success.

Waking up to another hopeless all WhiteHouse
Dividing States of competitively irresponsible
RedBlooded Evangelical Supremacist America
without
as within,
inhaled
as exhaled,
sourced
as re-sourced,
resilient
as resonant,
WinLose
to feed and water WinWin or LoseLose Climates
of anthro success
or epic entropic hopeless failure

If you’re like me,
which probably reduces the size
of hopelessly inert witnesses
to one allied cooperative ZeroZone
EarthTribe for Healthy/Wealthy Climates,
inside
learning from outside,
outside
speaking non-violently
cooperatively co-investing
with inside successful WinWin ego-voices,
echoing rivers of recombining neural networks.

If your WinWin Wonder climate
teaches my Awesome inside ecstasy
inviting outside enchantment,
spiritual paradigms
for natural relationship,
bicameral systems
Both/And etched in neural imprints
sketched by recombining health-wealth
original ZeroZone neural roots
nurturing matriarchal ultra-violet’s resounding IntegritySource.

If you’re like me
hopelessly choosing
all loves matter.

 

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