Did You Notice
Did you notice?
What you have for breakfast,
despite what Mom said,
is probably less important than who you do
and do not
have breakfast with,
and why
The brand and make and year of your car
are less significant to your well-being
than the costs to you,
your family,
and our healthy future?
The quality of your time
is less about how much you earn
and more about what you do,
and what you are unwilling to do,
to earn it?
You probably never respond to questions
about how much you care for someone
with the amount of time you spend with them,
"about 8.5 hours per week,"
while you might discuss how often,
and how long,
you miss them in a week,
if at all?
When you measure the quality of your well-intended humor
not in the volume of laughter responding,
but in the silence of non-responses,
then you are in some serious trouble?
"Living" nature is not distinguished from "dead" nature,
by calculating quantified opposition,
but by noticing qualitative absence of healthy relationships.
You might measure success of your love life
as any hours,
or perhaps even days,
without fear or anger;
And yet,
you might find that absence of fear and anger is necessary,
but not sufficient,
for resilient loving awareness.
If you have a higher bar,
faces of apathy and neglect
are companions not possible to embrace
with love's sufficiently enduring resonance.
DNA is a regenerative human-natural language of intelligence
compared to older RNA regenerative
nonverbal self-consciousness.
Wouldn't we be foolish
to disrespect our ecological Elder's
environmental con-scientious prominence
to monoculturally listen only to LeftBrain's competing dominance,
with comparatively adolescent languaged voices?
What good is reductive reasoning
attenuated from its natural,
and most nutritious,
source of refueling fertility?
Throwing out RNA's primal
and ubiquitous regenerative intelligence
to value only DNA's more recent humane reiteration,
reflecting on this (0)-Core prime consciousness,
seems to throw out a cooperatively healthy baby
to hoard the communal bathwater.
Better outcomes could ensue
for the baby,
the water,
Earth and Anthros,
by bathing together in this neuro-systemic stew.
You fall asleep in front of the TV
trying to stay awake
to watch something that apparently is much less engaging
than pursuing your own impassioned dreams
Living and dying are opposites,
but "living" comes in a spectrum
from "full resonance" through "suffering dissonance";
yet "dying" never comes in a correlated spectrum
from "purgative alacrity" through "contented contentiousness".
When you stop using your mind
for anything resembling socially constructive purposes
it continues rattling on day after day
as if anyone were still attending;
but when you stop using your body
it almost immediately begins shutting down
as if no one needed tending.
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