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Eighth Grade English

Back in Eighth Graded Class of StraightWhiteMale English privilege I learned all healthy narratives must have at least one of three tension intentions Unlike sacred mythic prayer and fable multicultures invoking poetry flowing soulfully provoking gospel primal anthems Of StraightWhite Man v AnthroOther Or StraightWhite ManBody v EgoCentric AlienSelf Or StraightWhite ManSpirit v Earth's Sacred/Carnal Nature I remain disappointed by LeftHemisphere narrow-mindedness of these three Either/Ors which my RightHemisphere could more deeply hear as monocultural lack of Both/And inter-trinitarian academic career Both HumanTrauma Teacher and DivineTherapy Student secular fractured UnRaveling And Sacred Synergetic ReWeaving integrity's culturally inclusive compassionate GreeenEarth Communion. I thought I had seen and heard lack of heart resources among AnthroSupremacist early philosophers and scripture righter downers instinctively suppressing liberally democratized polycultural health-systemic passions polypathic compassion communicating polyphonic harmonic resounding polytheistic God/Love language restorying polyvagal sacred neurosystems most actively hoping health among win/win economically enlightened and politically empowered EarthWomanist reflective wealth. I'm sure I still can feel touched gratitude for more healthy democratic attitude co-governing cooperative green co-investments in EarthMother climate and family healthcare, public trust and domestic caregiving global communionation, local nutritional wealth liberating conservation, Economically bright and politically right ecologically tight relationships lead and feed theologically mighty cooperative reflections Politically correct replete with regenerative healthy co-redemptive win/win multiculturally meditative mediation strategies seductive among win/lose monocultural predatives, Encouraging, perhaps, a cannabis sedative and easing up on alcoholic dissociatives drunk from win/lose evolutionary theories of AnthroSupremacy Wins Earth's wealthiest superlative despite stumbling into humbling wounds of multi-degenerational EcoCide A more Left/Right Wing balanced evolutionary race theory of white supremacy unbalanced notice of intrinsic narrative tensions between peaceful intentions and male militaristic might colonizing enslaving proprietary patrilinear monocultural domination going way back through misery of dualdarkness not-not HiStory Toward brighter indigenous limbic lights of early monotheistic SunGod Worship preferring healthier transparent bright and wealthier vulnerable win/win co-sensory centering empowerment Among prehistoric preverbal family groups extended co-empathic kin PanEnTheistic early regenerational DNA co-relatives of wavey Time integrity and atomic faced Space bicamerally synergetic circling ladders and laddered spiral co-binary dynamic places PolyHealth feeding and EcoWealth watering compassion's bilateral co-extensions InBetween Yang's Open ZeroZone and Yintegral NonZero Flow soulful bi-sensory nonviolent response along polypathic lines with polyphonic ringing spaces harmonic cooperative singing ringing co-investments In panoramic historically dramatic epic textured narratives of faithful AnthroSupremacists learning how much we BlueSky love and GreenEarth worship our own personal Political ecofeminist Green empowering Indigenous GrandMothers who lived and died long before verbal language LeftBrain robustly rewarded waspy enculturation, and Eighth Grade English privileged class.

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