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Talk of the Town

Luther Vandross recorded a song that says something like "We had the best love around... We were the talk of the town." I can't think of the last time a greatly famous and resilient love affair was the talk of even TinselTown; and certainly not New York,... maybe Paris? Hong Kong? Too Western commercialized, I fear; Shoot em up Mow em down I would love to see and hear the day I open up my YahooNews and every viral video window is about resilient compassion, How passionately the Trump family comports their compassion together, transparent and vulnerable, courageous and curious, intent on serving Earth's subclimates seeking resilient health empowerment. Maybe a side bar about how the Pelosi and Trump extended multicultural kin hang out, karaoke and canoe together, share gardening tools, tell each other scary climate holocaust stories while circled around a bonfire of un-vanities, comforted by twinkling stars and a predictably waning and waxing ecology of moon enlightenment. Jesus said, or maybe it was Paul, but some patriarchal and powerful and passionate person, That followers of Christ's messianic redemptive way truth life, would be known by their amazing talk of the town, counter-monocultural, full rainbow of love for each other, and Earth's natural/spiritual beauty. So, maybe Mahatma Gandhi was right, alternative compassionate win/win Christian community is a fine non-violent communication compassionate idea, messianically bodhisattva suffering servant designed, but not yet fully implemented, Or at least not enough to fill all these little YahooNews viral windows with visions of great loves, like Superman and Lois Lane or maybe even Barack and Michele and their kids, and their kids, and their health wealthy kids. It would be grand to share a planet with others addicted only to great multicultural love stories of communion, epic tales of cooperative political economies, co-messiahs of healthy wealth offering each other a full-bodied minded polypathic hug rather than the mistrusting right hand dominant shake up and shake down of competitive capitalistic win/lose monopolistic gamesmanship. I long for a compassionate multi-pathic EarthTribe including Christian evangelists for God's creative Kingdom at left and right co-passionate hand, And Islamic FatherSun benevolently hospitable and grateful fundamentalists for radical global Win/Win communion economies built out of mutual cooperative trust and not tribal competitive narcissism in mutual disinterest and denialism and nihilism, and secular-Earth/sacred-Heaven dualism. Capitalism begets colonialism begets monocultural corporatism, not mutually cooperative investment in health and wealthy creolizing beauty hugs. Commodification of Earth begets further mistrusting handshakes, automated mass shootings of potentially viral health allies, great loves, As predative win/lose evolution models develop inevitable lose/lose climate run down run away extraction, get the hell out of here pathologies of depression and despair, great longing for epic EarthLovers to return becomes the talk of our global village, turning Left interdependent side up and Right fragmenting national egotism's autonomy down Probably right after singing Imagine together a world committed to restoring peace and great international epic EarthLove stories, mutual communion passions to never again think of health vocations as other than wealth of global village purpose and resilience of ethological theological ecological meaning as both nothing and everything beyond health of GreatLove's everyday ZeroZone experience, Whether the talk of my town and your town or merely the shadow of a wistful smile while turning off the too early morning alarm announcing yet another day of longing for more co-invested compassion while singing and dancing Imagine Less military-industrialized lack of emotional intelligence, less capital colonizing commodifying our own potential health integrity of great and wondrous ego/eco-relationships, healthy natural space for all wealthy organic time.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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