Candle of Hope

I am in my newly adopted Green Sanctuary enjoying our communal celebration of all things nutritionally healthy When the ecofeminist facilitator announces it is now our time to light three candles of hope. She invites our Greek chorus to speak these candles' brightening intention. Various voices give shout outs of ongoing despair for lack of healthy cooperativity growing darkly drear competitions in Virginia and Syria and capital-city hysteria nearly every Win or Lose ZeroSum stated place. But, I was thinking of shining more light on seeds of winwin hope, Like most everything in Yes! crunchy magazine and in Permaculture Design unglossy magazines and in Restorative UnAutomated NonIndustrialized Justice and NonViolent Communication classes and families everywhere. Hope cooperatively owned and managed universally celebrated in green businesses and uniting household sanctuaries and eco-villages, good-faith intentional communities, communions of nutritional integrity springing up across Earth's multiculturing planet. Hope shouting out for creolization over colonization, for unity over uniformity, for freedom for active love and not just freedom from chronic fear. Hope for lefts with rights, for adaptive deductions with adoptive inductions, for natural systems with spiritual networks, for secular knowledge with sacred wisdom, for yang with yin, and never against, for ecofeminists with cooperative-parenting matriarchs, for spatial now with temporal not not yet, for universal OneZones with unitarian multi-lateral ZeroZones, for equal dignity of egos within interdependent webs of ecohabitats. I did not speak my active hopes aloud, worried they might feel too aggressively intrusive, so not even one candle is lit for healthy compassionate climates cooperatively impassioned hope, for investments already planted, growing up and out wealth of green and black and brown and white and blue and red and ultra-nonviolent resilience. How will this liturgy incarnate cooperative compassion becoming non-violently viral? Without everyday resonations, resolutions, articulations of interdependent ego/eco-balancing, bicamerally becoming, pro-active shout-out Hope! impassioners. Green sanctuary history lessons often miss what's going on with other Yes! multicultures, Miss what has gone on in non-sectarian good-faith green cultures, perennial philo-sophias, Miss what and whom have not yet nutritionally come within our potential 7-grain interdependent 2020 communion. Green sanctuary celebrants mistake our despair for WinWin opportunities missed for candles of hope unlit omitting interdependent risks to celebrate more extensively within Earth's healthy polycultural nutritious strengths not yet grown adoptively, but known adaptively within as without one interdependent trans-generational web of healthing wealthy life.