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The apparent President-elect
and her closest advisers
gather to build a Cabinet
that might survive four years of dwindling hope.

Thanks so much for being here.
Let's begin with a time of silence,
gathering our listening voices and thoughts,
hopes and therapeutic vision....

As this time ends,
I'm wondering if someone might help me understand
why we have a Department of Health and Human Services.
Does this "and" imply a mandate to provide healthy services to non-humans?
Or, maybe we provide non-healthy human services?
Why not just Department of Human Health Services?

Well, that would be confusing.
Social services,
like help for abused and neglected kids,
seems rather far afield from health services.
Some federal programs, like military services
are known to escalate
systemic trauma.

Maybe Healthy Human Services?
And, why is the Department of Education
not part of our Healthy Human Services Department?
What are the advantages and disadvantages
of keeping education separate from "services"?

I'm not sure how healthy our educational services are right now.
Some of our students don't even feel safe at school,
much less happy and healthy.

Doesn't that adversely influence learning outcomes?
Anyway, your mentioning safety reminds me
of the Defense Department.
If the Defense Department's mission 
is not to protect our health and safety
then I"m not sure what we are defending, exactly.
Commercial real estate
and stock market values?

Maybe we should collapse Defense
into a new Department of Healthy and Safe Human Services.

Ballistics and safety don't sound right together to me.

And what about proactive and preventative strategies,
aren't these really more win/win offense
than win/lose defense
to retain safely resilient climates?

What about the Department of Healthy Human Security Services?

Seems like security 
and defense
and preventive measures
to avoid ugly violence and aggression
are already in that word "healthy."
It would be rather Trumpian
to have a Department of Healthy Human Insecurity Services,
wouldn't it?

Yes, that sounds more like my high school 
physical education class experience.

Especially those bathrooms 
and lethally swarming corridors between classes.

Wouldn't the same concerns apply to all the economic,
housing, 
and urban and rural development services?

And the Environmental Protection Agency?
That sounds like another health agenda to me.

Not strictly human services, though.

How about a Department of Non-Pathological 
Trauma-Informed Development Services?

Do you think we could win/win deliver 
as not win/lose 0-sum advertised
and capitalized?
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