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Born of Caretakers

Born of wombs for premeditated health and restoring nutritional wealth, We might warmly anticipate a more win/win democratic living Earth communion, more like an organic gardening womb than a lose/lose political capital-overinfested swamp, filling in with unhealthy communities, filling in with dysfunctional nuclear-ballistic families and tribes, filling in with shame and blame starving thirsting habitat-less unwarmed isolated self-righteous non-leftist individuals, Longing to return from whence we Earth CareTaker came. Before wounded parents and win/lose mentors and teachers of competitive debate and not cooperative civil civic discussion began our partisan disloyal-to-Earth debates. Wounded left-brain dominant verbal win/lose either/or debate enculturation, is important as a first step to understand our chosen and/or assigned, bought and paid for health/wealth cooperative position to defend and grow and win with either my way or Earth's benighted highway. But, wounded parents, mentors, teachers, preachers are apt to omit the second step of debate preparation: Get into your opponent's head(s). What will they say do think feel to persuade your shared audience, if not you, that your Earth CareTaker position is, in fact, not healthy not wealthy, not robustly rightbrain resonant and profoundly leftbrain resilient? Will they say you are well intended but are too liberal in your polypathic/polyphonic love? Will they find your healthy longings for ecological and theological intersectionality, secular and sacred interdependence, too extravagant, too ambitious, too liberal, too costly, too unsafe, too naive, too non-violent for responsible defense from their own already-anxious win/lose offense? Our own self-unfulfilling lose/lose nihilistic mortal dissociated disinvested prophecy? How will you cooperatively win/win? How might we regeneratively resonantly resiliently respond to courageous curiosity with warm appreciative inquiry, with warm accompaniment remembering way back to that originally unwounded and EarthCoPassionate warm wet womb? LeftBrain debate may be Earth's healthy prologue but RightBrain appreciative warm-felt dialogue is EarthCare Discerning epilogue; History is to Destiny as win/win polypaths are to polycultural health/wealth outcomes for all God's Earth CareTaker Yangs and CareGiver Yins.

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