Dancing Through Thin Margins

There is an old and wise saying, Take only what you need and use everything you take. We often consider the first part, or at least make occasional stabs at simplicity, but the last part is less frequently said or thought about as essential to healthy vulnerability. If we don't use everything we take and have been given by others, then we can be sure we have been given, and perhaps taken, more than we need. Taking only what we need sounds obvious and transparently ethical, perhaps even aesthetic in purity of harmonic intent, yet more mysterious and richer and deeper when we remember that life itself, and human life even evolving more so, is lived in margins, double-boundaried spaces, places, times, seasons of growth and decay. Earth's marginal soul is living soil and water, surface wind and fire storms and swells and ebbs. RNA and DNA regenerate on and within this thin biosystemic sphere between atmosphere and dead bedrock. Life, as contrasted to not-life, is a marginally placed process of learning to take only what Earth offers and gratefully using everything as cooperative gift. Life derives from prehistoric photosynthesis on Earth's evolving and devolving synthesis and revolving skin. And our senses, all five, each take what we need of this synthesis to LeftBrain adapt and RightBrain adopt what our thin margin offers us of and for a healthy simplicity yet wealthy diversity of synthesizing double-boundaried life through death. Humane life is evolutionary within Earth's marginal organic boundaries as we choose to use everything our RNA and DNA Elders have gracefully and phylogenically offered us to swim and walk and fly within Earth's bountiful health boundaries. Humanity defines what Earth has given as marginally sufficient diversity and is uniquely poised on a constant multicultural edge to fully delineate, acclimate, creolize, know polypathic gratitude for this polyphonic boundary grace, to deeply digest and warmly decompose every sensory gift of Earth we take in through this vulnerable ride between natural birth and spiritual revolution, Taking only what marginal wealth we need and using every double-boundaried healthy day and night we gratefully receive.