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Grandmother Tree

Miracles of GrandMother WinWin Tree begin with her purgative peaceful birth. For at this time, so long before her cycling rings of time began, we see her original seed and this seed's less original composting environment, and within this brief timeless moment, before her WinWin becoming, these each appear to decompose LoseLose into each other, yet fertilely so, beginning GrandMother Tree's long waging of peace-filling rings, recycling time's historic four fractal-dialectic seasons of regenerativity. Once begun LoseLose zero-sum balancing, GrandMother revolves through days and nights emerging relentless WinWin creolizing root systems of zero-sum regenerativity. For each new ring another year of cooperative becoming. Mostly cooperative, and only minorly competitive, or becoming decays to no longer being, yet even this continuous transition is not equivalent to springing back to prior springs. She cannot go home again because she carries her original home within her still small skeletal seed regenerating within, speaking of past purgations and migrations yet all while extending further rooting down ever richer deeper cooperative health-seeking WinWin system sensors. And so, at last, GrandMother Tree begins to fade from Yangish life toward Yin-emptying death. Whether fast, through uprooting hurricane, or slow, through slowing drying aging defense/offense loss of balance, her woody organs disintegrate creating creole compost perfect for her seeds and, even more richly, for seeds of her adult children, now become intrinsic to her densely rich WinWin forested environment. Her forest floor each spring producing LoseLose metamorphic creolizations of seeds and composts remembering each WinWin peace-filling other GrandMother Tree winds and voices reweaving nutrients of time as regenerative ecopolitical space still system rooting for waging peace, ever more cooperative. Waging LoseLose war prefers competitive discontinous imbalance, as waging WinWin peace requires root systems of cooperative continuous balance.

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