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Leaving Stems

Imagine yourself as a tree with a leaf named Yang and a coarising nondual twig named Yin, having a sappy conversation about life and mortality. Do you think this twig would be so foolish as to correct the leaf’s beliefs that life and death are analogous to evolution and retrenchment, dormancy decomposing into further incarnations of Earth’s soul, feeding root systems of future tree’s healthy coarising development? Yet, for the leaf named Yang, once separated from your embryonic twig and Yin’s ecologically breathing economic and politically symbiotic treehome, healthy life is but a nutritional season. Your incarnate tree’s rings of revolutionary root systemic development, of resonant evolution, of regenerate virginal life spans many growing seasons, as a tree thriving, then gradually slowing, within your interdependent forest. And, many enculturing centuries more, as a speciating voice within Earth’s nutrient/boundary skin of RNA/DNA scripted life, further potential regenerations of Earth’s abundant love. Imagine Earth preoccupied leaves decomposing sunny fuel and healthy nutritional function for yin’s well-versed root systems forging future virginal yet regenerate occupations.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Date: 5/23/2016 1:15:00 PM
Wow! This is awesome, awesome and so awesome. This piece is heartfelt and deeper than deep.
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 5/23/2016 4:31:00 PM
Yes, I'm feeling more like a leaf than a twig, much less an entire tree, right now. Mortality feels ambivalently, yet ubiquitously, close. So delighted that someone else enjoys this piece, as I do.

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