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Ben Franklin and Son

It was not yet noon
when Ben said
a host of lovely things.
As far as we know,
no one accused him
of being publisher shy,
or sleeping in.

Ben said,
Early to bed
Early to rise
Makes a man,
and perhaps women and children more especially too,
Healthy
Wealthy
and Wise.

Ben did not advertise a brand name
of any particularly aggressive nationalistic bed business
for optimal wise healthy-wealth profit-making.

Ben also did not
claim to be the very best bed business CEO
Pennsylvania had ever seen

Or the wealthiest bed-making CEO slept early upon,
under,
or intimately nearby.

Ben did not
disinform all media outlets
of what a great pacifist constitutional lawyer job
he was not doing.

Ben did not even take responsibility credits
for the revolutionary work
the personal cooperative democracy investment
of armed militia freedom-fighters.

Ben found it unwise
to separate health from peaceful loving wealth;
Unwise to believe we could grow violently unwise
without also becoming unhealthy inside
where peaceful light 
prefers to warm-glow reside.


I was trying to remind my oldest son,
now approaching his middle twenties,
that dis-associating wealth
from health
and healthy aspirations
is not wise.,

And, to re-associate chronic late night revelry
Sunday through Saturday
with challenges upgrading resiliently livable wealth.

Hopefully, I mentored a more wisely balanced presentation,
rather than unwise health segregation
from wealth of fun,
rather than exhausting already bad air
polluted by late night escapist entertainments
consumed too much
and producing insufficient outcomes.

I'm sure I went on too long
about our cultural systemic Win or Lose competition problems,
Losing health and losing wealth
long-term played-out irresponsibilities
of fake anti-ecological revolution authorities 
growing wary of fake-promised health-wealth raptures
originating from a fundamentalist Protestant
anti-scriptural dualistic 
healthy nature v wealth-hoarding monocultural Spirit 
punishing muilticultural theological experiences
of healthy Here
with wealthy Now

Segregating secular nature's healthy development
from sacred Spirit's wealthy multicultural co-investments
which would have been unthinkable
to a Jewish 0000 4D Jesus
humane natured Lover
Because also Divine-Holy Matriarchal Spirited.

I probably then too slowly turned 
from Gaian theological v ecological disassociation problems
of too fiercely segregating rapturous healthy spirits
from blissfully wealthy long-term natures,
to problems of Great White Father's social-systemic discriminating nation
between unhealthy Win or Lose competing ecopolitical behaviors
causing disabling,
chaotically oppressive
lack of therapeutic social development,
absence of conservational attention
to ecologically sound long-term NatureStudies
And
theologically non-violent HolySpirit Win to Win integrity research.

Both of which seem to agree with Ben,
and probably even J.C. Himself,
Sleeping under the stars,
praying, walking and talking in Gardens,
meditating on healthy fishing vocations
while early morning sitting
and walking on wealth of salty Seas,
and planting sacred trees
in early Spring
to lovingly harvest
shepherd
for carpentry pruning time each Autumn
in a pre-deforested MotherSoil CoOperative

Early to natural bed
Early to spiritual dream co-wise
healthy bodies
wealthy minds
ego/eco bilateral
nature/spirit binomial
healthy/wealthy ZeroZones
of RealTime 4D Wise.

I would call my son
to apologize
for keeping him up so late
with my health-wealth therapeutic evangelical gate,
but I doubt he's up yet,
before noon,
when Ben said the very best lovely things
any health-wealth constitutional deliberator
for restoring Earth's peaceful justice
ever said.

Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2018

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