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Sophia’s Withdrawing Room

Sophia:

virgin Earth wisdom,
as in PhiloSophia,
philosophy,
especially of Earth’s ecological wisdom,
both politically Left and economic Rights of Earth and all of Sophia’s evolving cooperative
deep-listening learning children.

Mentor of Metaphysics:

Polynomial-Polypathic-Polycultural Physics,
preferably positive regenerative,
rather than so much cognitive/affective toxic dissonance
and irrational suboptimization of random chaos
disguised as coincidental WinWin fractal/squared octave frequencies
of nature-spirit thermodynamically ionic/ergodic dipolar,
yet nondual,
DNA/RNA revolutionary solidarity of polyculturing ecosystems.

ProGenitor of Physics:

Multitemporal-MultiSystemic-Multicultural Mentoring Lessons,
preferably actively deviant deep listening
empathic trust as Basic Attendance regenerative,
rather than so much suffering
and exponential LeftBrain dominant competition to deduce/reduce creation
disguised as dialectical decomposition of LoseLose tipping point
midway
wu wei ecologically systemic balancing functions, frequencies, forms
of metaphysics/polypathic geometrically spiraling
cycling dipolar co-arising nondual healthy Permaculturing Designs

for Poly-MultiCultural EcoLogical HealthyPolitics
and SafeReGenerativeEconomics Fertility CoInvestment
(0)-Soul ReCyclical
4-Prime Dimensional
EmpathicTrust Revolutions,
fold Yin to unfold Yang,
prefold implied YinYin as notnot balanced
to refold Yang’s YinYin bicameral ecoconscious power
to cooperate with those loves already rubbing elbows,
to stretch out with and for
those elbows and ribs,
feet and hands of co-messiahs too far away
in space and time to become mindful
of eternally timeless nutritional now.

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Politics of MultiCultural Trust

“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate to the perspectives of individual disciplines. I have argued that there is intrinsically only one class of explanation. It traverses the scales of space, time, and complexity to unite the disparate facts of the disciplines by consilience, the perception of a seamless web of cause and effect.” Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The unity of knowledge

Political Cause: Yang
EcoNomic/EcoLogical Effect: Yin

Tao of Political-Economic Consilience

How could politics,
studying effective/ineffective power in relationships and transactions,
in communication’s productive/unproductive exchanges,
in communion’s transubstantiations,
be an intelligently humane science
without also growing art-forms of imaginative expression?
evolving culture’s powerful articulations,
how best to constitute, contract, and behave together
toward daily through global social economic justice.

Political effectiveness is about control,
sources and patterns,
rhythms of normative creation
favoring polycultural inclusiveness,
democracy of conjoining powers
to enrich future generations of Earth’s healthy prosperity.

Political relationships,
economic transactions,
ultimately support radically regenerate health trends.

The political evolutions of well-formed and reliably executed democracy
have become Favorite Sons of political scientists,
just as totalitarian monopolies of invested power
have become the scientist’s Straw Man for sociopathology
opposing mature polypathic political-economic powers
to effectively advocate socially therapeutic outcomes.

With this same normative assumption of political health science,
we evolve toward ever more inclusive
and therefore hopeful and healthy emergence
of cooperatively organized empathic trust
between political-economic cultural behaviorists.

The politics of healthy regenerative behaviors
unveil the arts and sciences of empathic trust
as dipolar contrasted to distrustful mutual immunity,
antipathy between individuals,
families,
subcultures,
tribes,
competing histories.

We emerge with a positively deviant cooperative political/economic culture
struggling against older pre-millennial WinLose Gaming assumptions
about this business of not only self-governing
but also WeThePeople governing
throughout an overpopulating Earth,
currently drawing too much energy to sustain a healthy home
for grandkids
and their extended genetic families
in the animal and plant ribonucleic kingdoms.

In Empathy and Democracy Michael E. Morrell critiques
“Agonistic theories…
because they tend to reify conflict to the detriment of possible cooperation and do not adequately theorize why we should expect people to remain [loyal] adversaries rather than become enemies.” (pp. 194-5)

What is this difference between a political adversary and an enemy
if not continued respect for co-empathic possibilities for mutual trust
in more cooperative political outcomes
through a “consilience” of mutual subsidiarity.
We can learn to become grateful for adversaries
to produce a more optimally discerned outcome.
On the other hand,
if we succumb to monocultural supremacist political thinking
as always and everywhere competitive WinLose strategics,
then our political choice of enemies for all “loser” roles and rules
precludes full maturation of a healthy cooperative democracy
for every economic body,
every political mind.

Enemies are those we have labeled as outside our desired co-empathic range
of political/economic opportunity.

Shayla C. Nunnally
uses the language of trust and mistrust and distrust
to mine U.S. racial politics
(Trust in Black America: Race, discrimination, and politics).
Perhaps trust refers to the cognitive syllogism side of empathic feelings,
whether positive or negative,
as absence of trust appears
if and only if absence of empathy.
They co-arise nondually, to borrow from Buddhist Philosophy,
as thoughts have feelings attached,
and feelings manifest in thoughts, language of consciousness.

How might we pursue the art and science of politically empathic trust
given the historical predator v prey brand of slavery,
the hunting and gathering of dark-skinned people
supported by a Winners v Losers evolutionary enculturation history?

Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh
(Social Movements in Politics: A comparative study, expanded edition)
rests political Identity-Formation Theory
“on a simple assumption:
people’s actions are structured by deeply held beliefs.” (p. 240)
Perhaps nondual trust/beliefs with empathic/mutual feelings.

A relatively autonomous “non-elite” popular culture
drives political-economic participants
who become immersed in a movement culture.
A non-elite political-economic subculture
might be expected to also aspire to fulfill itself
as a movement culture,
from non-elite to co-elite,
or,
more radically,
a cooperative co-arising aspiration that thrills
and virally spreads
by co-opting elitist dissenters into active empathic-trust.

“One would see instead social movements as constantly evolving yet transforming—
as they are internally dialectical—and therefore bearing legacies for future generations.” (p. 244)

The cooperative optimization of future generations’ health and safety
is an ancient political-economic externally dialectical agenda,
apparently supported by regenerative ecosystemic evolving processes
across most, if not all,
forms and functions of living political-economic systems
and networks of systems.

In both Eastern and Western wisdom traditions
we find the belief,
and perhaps the feeling as well,
that the political and economic systems of a society
are best judged by how well they govern themselves for those most vulnerable,
including the “non-elites” of this generation
but also children,
our future as global residents of Earth.

A cooperative turn to a level of multicultural and polypathic empathy-trust
seems to inevitably expand our Golden Rule
to explicitly include all life forms living,
not yet living,
and no longer living.

Here lies our cooperative political-economic dual destiny of discernment,
as “elites” actively listen to those speaking of non-elite empathic trust
that we are each predator/prey hybrids of mutual subsidiarity
evolving movements toward consilience of empathic trust
in Earth’s healthy optimization future.

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Ghostly Absence of Identity

Underneath all these layers of memory within
and should becomes without
I have nothing left to even become me.

An exhausted ghost
within chemically and organically fertilized union,
a peeled boundary membrane
peeled
and relentlessly final pulp-piled onion water
of nothing but hands to wash
this scent of someone,
a thought
an enfolded smell-swell memory
of time as spatially dynamic and sustained life.

Peeled of all spatial dimension
to be left only with timelessly unbound time
as memory of a full-peeled union,
embryonic promise of a place to call original home,
identity of fragrant unpeeling light,
loving health regenerative,
co-empathic trust,
self-governing as unpeeled Other.

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Deep Listening Ecology

Deep Listening is integral and creative;
learning to listen in an organically dialectical context.
It works most effectively when you,
and your team,
and family,
and species,
trusts their environment,
so everybody can venture outside ego’s inside range of comfort and mastery.

It grows increasingly urgent,
politically and economically,
to step outside this LeftBrain Mastery Zone
to integrate new information into one’s mind,
as body of nondual co-arising belief/feeling gestalt.

Learning is an economic hydraulic political-choice system,
a recycled sharing of quantifiable information values,
when we think of learning as short-term memorization,
with only short-term RealTime healthy utility.
But, sustainable nutritional-economic delivery systems,
including the processes of listening to learn
are eco-squared (fractal-ecological-dialectical) systems;
they are organic integrated networking ecologies
of true love TherapeuticPower as co-empathic positive-healthy balancing Exchanges-Economies-Trusts.

Sustained qualitative-emotive-co-empathic-co-arising learning,
life-long experiential listening,
recognizes each grateful learner
as part of everybody’s natural co-mentoring environment
of active cooperation,
defined as both political mutual subsidiarity of YangPower
and economic co-arising WinWin as Yin-eco-squared TaoBalance
of healthy self-governance,
ReGenesis PermanentlyHistorical EcoListening Revolutions
of Evolution’s ReGenerative SpaceTime Creation Story.

Education premised upon politically healthy choice
mutuality of trust
within co-arising co-empathic balancing networks
of cooperative information WinWin ecosystemics.

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People, Places, and Things I Didn’t Know I Trusted

I rather suddenly, and belatedly,
realized I trust the highest and best use for language,
for every community and communication of faith,
for every school and pedagogical political enculturation,
for every farm and forest,
for every government, including self-replicating government,
for every recreation and arts center,
for every human and animal and Earth service agency,
for every family and tribe and species,
for every ego centered identity
of every age past and to come,
is to become the very best PermaCultural Designers and Developers possible,
to achieve outstanding Continuous Quality Improvement
Health and Safety ecological balance,
multicultural,
political,
economic,
inclusive of multi-regenerational outcomes.
Our highest and best multiculturing nutritional vocations,
given our current ego as anthrocentric health v pathology situation
and creation story.

Our PostMillennial Creation Story
began in response to an AgriBusiness As Usual environment
moving away from balanced political and economic norms
about harvesting what you plant,
transgender, and transgenerational complementary equivalence
of healthy authority as nutritional responsibility.

This PostMillennial PermaCultural pedagogy of poli-economic design
and development
draws on older nutritional root systems,
reseeding agribusiness norms
with cooperative poli-economic principles
for not only planting mutual subsidiarity
and harvesting complementarity of regenerative health-trends,
but also incorporates polypathic hunting and decompositional gatherings
of mutually enriching engorging celebration of wisdom and future generations,
assuming a benign cooperative (0)-sum interest
co-arising trusting Host
incarnating our landscaped universe of mutually subsidiary parasites,
cooperatively loving our health-balancing yin-principle
of integral-complementarity,
integrity of health-normed polyculturing evolutionary compass.

In PermaCulture Design environments,
communication follows and leads a nutritionally-intended flow stream,
with both confluent and some dissonant suboptimizing resonance,
but producing basic healthy trust in WinWin communication
within and between Informed/Exforming/Exformed/Reforming potential.
“Waste” is pathology, loss,
dissonance within outcomes,
but heuristically held as a potential poli-economic resource,
a suffering that will teach us something
we need to learn
about how to never plan for WinLose outcomes.
never settle for less than (0)-remainder Ego-ReGenerative Trust Balance.

In PermaCulture Development planning,
our first rule is to do no harm,
following the principle of mutual subsidiarity.
A corollary of note to program and health policy developers
and proposal writers
and public-contract pundits,
be careful about what and whom we ask for,
and where we may under- and over-project
our ecological health-balancing outcomes in response to investment.

When organizing and developing well-integrated ecosystems,
we optimize design by giving political preference
to self-organizing,
cooperative empowerment Principles of Complementarity,
what Bucky Fuller comprehended more universally as Synergetics,
and Love of healthy integrating balance-harmonics.

Community organizers and builders,
religious co-empathic trust organizers,
international communication developers and discerners,
public and private therapeutic dialogue facilitators,
health lobbyists and economists,
all recognize that where one ends up
is hugely and persistently boundaried
by where and when and why one starts.

Business As Usual
does not trust mutual subsidiarity
except in embryonic through innocent young child incarnations,
with DNA-driven original ecosystemic norms
of fractal-complementary fold/unfold thermodynamic balance.

But my more permacultural business as usual
begins with diversely entwined
mutually defining and enriching,
protecting and promoting,
grassroot and vision-seed investors,
wisely trusting our multicultural anthrocentric planning process
and nutrition-balancing budget.

My PermaCulture Trust in integral,
holistic,
and sacred principles of complementarity
operates under and within geometric,
biometric,
systemic primal relationship assumptions
of kosmic original intent:
We are all poli-economically within this Golden Rule Universe together.
Everyone,
regardless of species or ecosystemic dialect and rhythm of identity,
is a potential Golden Rule PermaCultural Ally,
CoMentor
in a (0)-core landscaped Universe.

Metaphor and story,
analogy and biology,
ecology and teleology and theology,
syllogisms and algorithms
mutually comprehend this eternal moment’s orthopraxis
of (0)-footprint bicameral co-empathic trust.

This radical and profound active trust
is our complementary faith
in time’s unfolding nutritional balance,
our understory of pedagogical deep-learning structures
found within religion,
ecology,
trees,
minds as also bodies,
moments and days and years and centuries of evolutionary history,
ReGenerative Open Whole EcoSystemic Design.

If this PermaCulture word had been visible to Bucky Fuller,
writing about synergetic bio- and eco-systems,
he might have entitled his metric cooperative universalist prosepoetry
and design scriptures
PermaCultured System Design and Development.

When Thomas Kuhn’s Problem of Incommensurability
points to
Solutions of CoEmergent MultiParadigmatic MultiRegenerational Commensurability,
then I recognize dissonance
within a more resonant paradigm
as more than hopeless suffering.

We act in cooperative trust
that dissonant
notnot
Absence of Potential Resonance,
feelings of poli-economic longing for relational resolution,
become our teachers of opportunities
to avoid monocultural-trending climatic ego-identity crises.

Noticing absence of fully matured relational trust
unveils potential for more deeply integrating
exegetical truths of mutual subsidiarity
with eisegetical agapic-beauty of complementary vocations.

Why settle for one or other;
not healthy-wealth WinWin?

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Political Beliefs as Economy of Feelings

Could what a political scientist would call
deeply held belief
also be what a psychologist could identify as a
feeling of affinity or aversion,
trust or distrust,
confluent familiarity or cognitive-affective dissonance?

“I deeply believe Tasteless Trump
is the logical conclusion
so richly deserved by the Republican Party.”

Is this position rooted in a belief system
or an empathic feeling of trust/distrust system
or are these dualistic ways
to speak of one nondual feeling-belief mindbody system?

If our political and economic choices
evolve out of our complex sensory networks
of health v pathology,
both ego-internal
and eco-external,
both endo- and ecto-symbiotically evolving,
then how do I know
that what you believe
is not what I experience
as a feeling of trust v. distrust, dissonance,
confluence,
basic aptic contentment,
or stressful stretching
to find co-empathic commensurability,
as something nondually in-between
your evolving belief systems
and my evolving feeling sensory-rooted systems?

For political party planning,
community organizers have a useful iconic principle:
Highest and best original investment system
will generate the most widely replicable positive community outcomes,
but only for those well-spoken,
empowered,
within the original highest and best co-investor system.

Or, something like that.

Permaculture Designers have a similar system design principle:
Greatest effect with least loss, least effort, least suffering, least dissonance.

Combining these may reproduce a new-old Golden poli-economic Rule
of ReGenerative Systems Development:
Optimize systemic belief/feeling integrity
by learning holistic loss of love management,
given current co-investor potential.

Given current poli-economic co-investor potential for
freedom toward health, as freedom from pathological anger,
freedom toward love, freedom from fear of fear itself,
freedom toward learning trusting truths of co-empathic beauty,
as freedom from dissonant terrors
of self and other hatred,
fundamentalist monocultural elitism,
sociopathic anthrocentric suprema-cynicism,
suicidally hypnotic addictive self-idolatry
of LeftBrain ego-predative dominance.

More holistic current feeling/belief learning potential
evolves love/synergetics through inclusive deep listening
and then intentional practice
of co-empathic eco-compassion.

Deep learning our belief-feeling continuum,
noticing what were oppositions now feel like heuristic appositions,
slowly, integrally,
inclusively discerning our shared vision
for optimizing potential regenerative co-empathic trust intent.

Given my current
belief/feeling
left/right
yang/yin
nature/nurture
scientific research/spiritual development
situation and story,
my blessings and apparent curses,
resonance and poli-economic flat-line echoing silent dissonance,
I am trying to do my part to regenerate healthy ecosystems
biosystems of life and dying decomposition,
with least loss and suffering,
poli-economic death,
resulting in highest and best nutritional effect
for my,
and our,
and Earth’s feeling-beliefs,
both political and economic,
ecologically evolving systems
for health regenerating safety
of future generations,
our EarthTribal PostMillennial CoInvestment,
our vulnerable babies facing climatic transitions.

Would both political and psychological scientists
recognize an embryonic DNA/RNA scripted baby
as a deeply rooted belief/feeling system,
hopefully evolving toward political and economic maturity?

Like Republic Party Investors
giving birth to Donald Trump as their Favorite RelentlesslyWhite,
nonIslamic Son,
to re-present their most nutritional offering
and sacrifice,
a sacramental icon of political and economic monocultural elitism,
not recognizing the superior polycultural power of co-empathic trust
has already slapped them in the face;
but just to wake us up to our own naked absence
of basic trust
in double binding principles
of political subsidiarity to
economics of integral-dialectical-nondual complementarity;
trust beliefs form as well-fed feelings flow.

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Politics of Love

Trust,

rather than terror,

usually beginning with some combination of the two,

is an empathic political choice

to evolve toward healthier mutual regard,

rooted in open and honest full-disclosure

of ego- and eco-centric agendas,

emerging climatic issues,

projects repurposing monopolistic Business As TerrorUsual.

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Earth’s Vocational Union

This Union of happiness
and healthy prosperity,
life’s liberty,
in pursuit of equal EarthRights of InterDependence,
cooperatively contract Earth’s rooted regenerating Union
of political-economic health,
as at least less climatic pathology,
stirrings of dissonant bicameral flow
predicting behavioral trends of BusinessAsUsual
Ego-monoculturing Win/Lose Programs.

Meanwhile,
our Original Vocational Intent
timelessly remains WinWin health-optimization
within each and every EarthTribe evolving incarnation,
midway across normative Tipping Points
of each and every humane bicameral heart
and mind
and body
with DNA/RNA heritage enculturation as history
of deep-learning vocational unions,
ecoconsciousness

Trust: LeftDeductive Yang political-communication power
fuel co-arising dipolar nondual economic bilateral function
CoEmpathy: RightInductive DoubleBind MidWay WinWin
v LoseLose,

Integral dialectical universal ecosystemic learning networks:
Win 0Rigin Left
Lose 0Mega Right resonant-reverse
Win 0Mega Left
coarising reverse-code “Win-Reiterative” memory Right temporal-neural

Prime CoRelational Eulerian ReGenerative Function
as empathic/enthymematic dipolar balanced
reiteratively relational communication balance function
within (0)-soul Earth dipolarity of TaoTime,
then diastatic Space,
then diastolically stretching Place,
then EcoConscious CoPresence,
within a cooperative Union
Declaration of Universal Earth Rights
balancing freedom-to with freedom-from
SunLight’s ReGenerate InterDependence.

While political evolution may be rooted in
my enemies are your enemies,
economic revolutions are rooted in
my potential transactional partners
become my cooperative allies of trust
rather than my bilaterally cooperative enemies of reiterating terrors,
violence and suffering,
active abuse
but also long-suffered neglect of mutually grateful relationship
within our vocational union
of Earth’s Tribes,
and generations
and genders
and cultures
and communication
and deep learning investment choices.

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Ecology of Political Trust

TaoTime as ZeroZen Centered

Simple really, this Eastern Creation Story,
imagine all your energetic muscle tissue tribes,
alternating static yin with diastatic yang,
imagine Elder skeletal cells
and structural embryonic marrow-systems,
imagine rivers of vessels and veinish pumping systems,
rhythms and swirling patterns,
revolving neural synaptic-aptic communication systems,
and of course your skin cells
and all those amazing organic mind cells
with their internal and external eco-systemic issues
and economic transfer of nutritional-flow busyness-networks,
all following one health v pathology regenerative ecological model
of cooperative internal/external self-governance.

We are all relatively healthy incarnations,
still breathing and beating and conscious,
ecologically self-optimizing homeostatic ego/eco biosystems,
sharing a (0)centric historical-cultural genetic cooperative network
ecological and polycultural within all DNA/RNA scripted systems,
and multicultural within humane bicameral systems,
organic health-cooperative EarthTribal networks
of nondual co-arising
Yang-Left-Deductive
Yin-Right-Inductive
co-empathic trust
in beloved community truth
as ecologically balancing
mindful
humane
self-optimizing
regenerate beauty
as active love,
eco-political intelligence.

As yin-balanced within,
so yang-empowered without.

Political and economic cooperative empathy,
a private and public, but also ego-intimate
articulating evolutionary empathic capacity
to care about nurturing health and safety environments
for the young.

Remember when powerful political leaders
vocationally cared about healthy futures
for their grandchildren’s grandchildren?

Neither do I.

Future generations,
future regenerators,
future YangYin regeneration of ecosystemic time
as uracil/cytosine strings
informing dipolar co-arising memory,
folding
unfolding
refolding revolutions of evolution’s embryonic organic time.

Courage to lay down Yang macho-male dominant supremacy
is often found in love for nurturing welcomers,
graceful hospitality,
integrity of maleness remembered within embryonic power-flow,
co-empathic matriarchal reception
of love’s cooperative compost
enthymeming positive intentions.

If we cannot remember how to play and strategize
with the imaginative WinWin innocence of a prepubescent child,
then we might try to imagine courage
as open receptivity of a leaf
absorbing light
to produce a more positively empowered atmosphere
for growing future trees with deeply healthy root systems,
producing hard-shelled yang nuts
with nutritional-regenerate yin bilateral development instructions
written across each and every EarthTribe incarnation,
living now between ElderPower past
and FutureFlow of TaoTime ReGenerators.

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Struggling Love

I know
you know
you stole our property,
our mutual possession,
our sense of co-ownership,
of belonging together
to grow our health forever.

I know
you took it for your sole ungrateful possession,
to use for your co-dependent purposes,
not a subject for open communication,
further evolution of whom we were becoming
together.

You know
I know
you stole our mutually co-arising trust
in cooperative objectives and views and color-filled perceptions,
you removed our room for cooperative gratitude,
replaced with anger and fear of future isolation,
divorce.

We both know
with deeply resonant intuitive integrity,
this critical event in our relationship cannot redeem,
re-direct,
re-connect,
our co-arising healthy trajectory
without mutually acknowledging
our sense of excommunicating loss and suffering
to have stolen
and to have been thereby co-laterally severed
from co-expansive gratitude,
replaced by co-condensing anger burning entropy,
absence of healthy wealth
through love’s reiterating Commons of communication.

We both know
If I am generous toward you,
if I “gift it forward” in your direction,
and you feel gratitude in response,
and express that gratitude through your deeds
and words
then you redeem and co-arise further generosity of love;
While not feeling and/or not expressing gratitude
in non-response
absorbs and dampens and depresses love
into our co-dependent toxicity of habit
where new creative loving life once grew.

We both are sane
as love will grow in our time
and organically chosen,
integratively intended, places,
relationships,
transactions.

We both are crazed
as other competing loves
still hunt and gather to fill in our gaps
and fracturing losses.

We all trust
our cosmological economy of synergy
evolves cooperatively reiterating gratitude,
human naturally reflected in love’s economy
co-arising generosity.

We mistrust
unilateral love, like lust,
so discontenting,
raises encrusted mountains of anger
deep flowing lava rivers of fear.

We respond
with trust and respect and care,
with practice and intent of generosity
until we no longer understand response as gratitude,
until chronic patterns feel empty of generosity returned,
redeemed,
replaced with judgment or apathy
too often swelling into anger and fear,
hunting and gathering and stealing
standing in for trust and respect and care.

I react
unwilling to continue this generous intent
because you steal my trust in our future
as co-arising health.

Struggling but still vigorously healthy love
evolves and sustains co-arising generosity
and mutually reiterative gratitude,
which would be no exception to our daily norm,
our default expectation of nature’s rich abundance,
if not for our mutual lack of gratitude,
iconically captured in Win-Lose economics
and anti-evolutionary cultural assumptions.

Love evolves
mutual economic generosity
as synergy revolves co-arising ecological paradigms,
systems and species,
cooperativity creation,
or love falls unrequited,
unredeemed,
stolen and absorbed into competitive mutual immunity,
heading toward entropically co-condensing selves,
cells of apathy and anger,
cancerous hurt and swollen suffering.

Love is risk
which often pays generous returns,
opportunities to invest further in healthy directions,
in relationships of evolving wealth.

We are free
to choose to stop loving
in response to suffering and ignorance and apathy,
anger and fear and hatred,
aimed at us by those we have invited into our trust;
free to stop responding to loss as mutual theft
with further generosity defusing integrity,
honesty,
because we feel too exhausted to survive
feeding toxic co-dependency
where we would nurture healthy co-redemption
of mutual investment in trust, caring,
this grace of cooperatively co-arising generosity.

I do not know
your quantities and qualities of need
for nurturing your healthy life.
If I have not offered generously
in response to your needs and wants and hopes,
don’t steal from me what was ours to mutually benefit
and then grow angry and fearful of how I may respond;
extend your generosity with me
just enough to help me understand
what you want
that I might have to give with gratitude.

Love is like a mountain,
majestic and beautiful to contemplate,
difficult to climb to the apex,
and harder still to survive there
to accomplish long-term healthy outcomes,
especially through cold winter nights.

Love presents life’s high stakes,
high risks for some nightmares,
high opportunities for some Great Day dreams.

 

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