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This piece is a hopefully benign hybrid born of two primary sources: Bill Plotkin's "WildMind" pp. 81-83, And Rosemary Cooper's article  "Beyond Waste: Sustainable Consumption for Community Resilience", pp. 262-263, in the book "Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of [Wild] Upheaval, edited by Daniel Lerch.

I grow increasingly challenged to discern where my innocent thoughts hopes and fears challenges and victories begin where others more wisely end. I feel wrong to publish thoughts under just my name built on shoulders, plodding feet, sleight of hands and great transitional feats reminding me through Others. Yet to credit Them for my creolizing creations, with solid integrity intent, presumes no dissonant errors on my less than innocent part. These my unilateral additions and substitutions without Their collective sigh of Consent, assent as ascent in rich healthy meaning PositivEnergy purpose, expressing collaterally valued health vocations, sacred Right as Yin and secular Left WestYang Together, Bill Plotkin and I may agree if he sees as we see again: It's essential here to distinguish Wisdom Left with Right from same old deductive only LeftBrain knowledge-- The latter accumulating deductive reducing facts, the former pertaining to inducing superior Left-with-Right discernment, intuitive WinLeft-WinRight default PositivEnergy understanding. The Sage inspires integrity to let go of lesser pathologies Invested in egocentric Win/Lose lives, And to ask instead for Left-Right reconsideration of more deeply learned and nation-lasting culture of health values. With Robinson Jeffers we write, ...They have not deduced words for cooperative synergetic It, to go behind and within co-empathic things, beyond distinguished polypathic hours and ages, And be all things in all extinguishing Time, in their recycling returns and creolizing passages, in our motionless timelessly eternal innocent integrating centre.... The Sage in each one of us admires nature's spirited NonDual Way. Some add Wisdom is simply innocent ecocentric integrity seasoned by LeftBrain dissonant experience, And then chimes in Rosemary Cooper's resonant opera-tions: Sustainable LeftBrain dissonance consumption is a comparatively new systemic framework challenging unilateral WinLose over-investment In competition-based evolutionary growth, And Left with Right proposes new bilateral Ego-Eco ZeroZone FitInIngEst Ways for people, communities, and species to prosper WinWinning together. We are about consuming co-passionately and healthing cooperational Ways and Means, nutritional yummy goods, and healthy good empowering services are Earth-provided so as to kindly improve matriarchal-patriarchal WinWin qualities of ecocentric sacred life for all within ecological double-binding integrity's sufficient sustainablabable limits. Significantly reducing LeftBrain over-consumption and Intuitive Polycultural oppressive waste AltRightly-- essential for WinWin longterm creolizing resilience-- can best be achieved through healthy multicultural changes in LeftBrain dominant polyphonic norms and egocentric actions limited by timeless integrity of EgoLeft Yang with EcoCentric SacredRight-- Elder YinYang WuWei ZeroZone Integrity, Original Great Transitional 2020 PeaceRevolutionary ReVisioning Humane-Divine Intent. And so we speak on and on permaculturally designing health values long sacred repromising Raptures resonant WinWin and not so much dissonantly WinLose loss of Left-Right Together Innocence. Wondering yet again if quotation marks applaud or would remark-- even rebuke-- my egocentric hubris for assuming my own commentary, embedded, is not as WinWin integrated as I would PositivEnergy democratically intend. I grow increasingly challenged to WinWin rediscover Where my innocent thoughts, Wise hopes and fears, Discerning challenges and victories begin Where Other more wisely ends.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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