Aint No Valley Deep Enuf
What my kids too often fail to notice,
and what I am guilty of weighing too lightly,
to avoid timely discernment,
are contrasts in density of opportunity
and toxicity of risks
hidden within our values and disvalues
themselves.
Disvalues shallowly accepted for short-term Win-Lose strengths
of economic and political leverage,
to eventually overpower unwanted and mistrusted gifts
of an overly-secularizing
materialistically colonizing
disuniting society;
A national culture degeneratively disanimated,
unmotivated toward healthy-wealth
of restorative opportunities.
Values toward deep ecologically flowing sacred valleys
with dense and complex co-arising co-investments
in compassion
toward coherence,
more inclusively,
intimately,
experientially powerful harmonic
resonant
absorbing
than shallow dissonance,
perhaps because more multiculturally strong-rooted
in Orthodox MotherEarth Valleys
of organically animated nutrition.
Nutritional density of Valley values
emerge historically rich and deepest,
most effective,
nutritional,
nurturing;
Contrasted and defined by
toxically shallow outcomes,
and cancerously mountainous disvalues,
Against humbling aggressions
and Lose-Lose punishing over-powering models
sold by capital-invested marketers
for Business As Colonizing Usual,
advocating ever freer markets
but most free for competitive hoarders,
engorged mountains of dominant inheritance.
Colonizers
false promising NonElite YinValleys,
immigrants and aliens
and less apparently animated and mattered nature-spirits,
lose least
by accepting domestic economic commodification.
So Elite Yangs continue to LeftBrain dominate
with ecopolitically shallow,
inferior qualities of monocultural EmpireBuilding,
fundamentalism of Kingdoms too NotHeavenly disinvested from Earth,
totalitarianism.
Too mountainously captivated with retributive fascism
waiting in poverished place of gospel Advent seasons
in RightWing fantasies,
too shallow self-righteousness
for deep valley nutritional spiritual values
to re-establish nourishment
and restore ego/eco-therapeutic roots.
"The [deep] valley spirit never dies
It is the woman, primal Mother."
LaoTsu
So too,
the strong mountain nature only AdolescentEgo fades away,
Win-Win childhood innocent balance
gives way toward Win-Lose adolescence
fading on back toward Win-Win deep valleys
of matriarchal maturity.
Mountain nature is the AtMan,
primal FatherTime
of Yang/Yin CoRestorative Creationism,
ego/eco-therapy.
Therapy appropriately applied
within all our most cooperatively trusted economic
and political
and extending family environments:
Natural Valley spirits
within cooperatively co-nurturing systems,
Religious colonizing
for Spiritual creolizing faiths,
Great Transitional polyculturing loves
and wondrous sacred polyphonic hopes,
rooted in deepest valleys
of polypathic
positive WinWin
bilateral-bicameral faiths.
What my kids too often fail to notice,
and what I am guilty of weighing too lightly,
are contrasts in wiser density of opportunity
and irrational toxicity of risks
hidden within our deep valley values
and mountainous disvalues
within ourselves
as without.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2017
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