Family Jazz Farmers

I am reading Wendell Berry stories again, still, today. And notice over these past several weeks he unfolds two bipolar themes. Berry is, was, a cooperative Southern neighborhood farmer of organic hospitality. His protagonists grow on multigenerational farms as Berry grows into writing while farming, thereby farming readers co-investing in cooperative organic ego-feeding ecosystems. But Berry's NegativEnergy tension emerges against nationalistic anti-productive family automated military ballistics reaping death harvests. All forms of death are terror in and outside Berry's local farm community, Yet death's most absurd forms are international and civil wars, tariff warts and tumors against short-handed family farmers. As any farmer worth her compost knows, Everyone losing opportunity for organic life risks isolating marginalizing competing de-commodifying death. Similarly, I hear an NPR commentator this evening remind us Everyone loses empowering trade in declaring wars. Whether firing retributive ballistics or tariffs or both, bleeding death and threat thereof are the opposite of cooperatively farming and feeding health together. Wars are LoseLose Games unto violent absurdity while cooperative farming, planting and harvesting, culling and replanting, seed sharing and mutual cooperative composting, multigenerationally, is WinWin traditional healthy economics and family politics, secular democratic trust and sacred faith in PositivEnergy ZeroZone communities. Similarly, I hear another NPR commentator say, of an iconic Jazz Master, whose primary instrument exploring high and low extremities of piano-fortes: He performed cooperative jazz THE Right Way. This seems to smirch the Master's reputation. Music performed THE Right Orthodox Way is not jazz, without capital-hoarding over-investments. Jazz is not ballistically force-fed at people Music sharing is about cooperative RightBrain planting and harvesting invitations into resonant life. Jazz performance at its organic ensemble creolizing best is about several right and left farming ways inviting us to muse with our right sharing amusing ways. THE Right Ways are about competitive performance wars-- who gets the biggest and baddest button spotlight, and not at all about jazz forms of cooperative improvisational farming, Recomposing stories about healthy forest and ocean and breath and light major 7th and dualdark minor diminished octave sharing. I was dreaming Wendell Berry poetry again resonant, today.