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How Many Holidays

How many times have I heard? The family that prays together stays together And, the family that eats together stays together I know from personal Holiday and every day experience, neither of these is necessarily true. However, I wonder if the family that sings and/or dances together, does stay together, if only in our dreams. And how many times have I thought, and sometimes said? If not broken, do not fix. If Holiday celebrations are not broken, then no reason to start singing and/or dancing now, avoiding climatic catastrophe by creating and recreating EarthPeace eucatastrophe. Only fix fractures when crumbling climates are painfully obvious losses Is a profound example of LeftBrain Business As Triumphantly Usual bipolar idealism Either we are depressingly broken already Or we are not yet sufficiently flawed in our current competitive consumer mania Polarized thinking predicts selfishly predative feelings, like marching in vicious squares rather than choosing to sing in virtuous circles. Reduced to merely secular devolutionary devotion, Or not yet feeling naked loss enough for a sacred solstice revolutionary caroling song and dance midnight flashmob massive howl event. Fracturing doubts perilously ignore intuitive warnings: feeling masked alone, so not extended family exposed, never threatening to sing a kind line or dance risky emotional steps toward resonant healing LeftBrain doubts about losing control of soberly reasonable celebrations reminds me that most thought and felt relationships working now are threatened by unraveling climate decay, by natural organic lifetime limitations, by dysfunctional silence, by mortal fears and breaking anger disorders, By denial of sufficient individual survival through self-perpetuating love sufficient for fixing Ever After. Frequent flyer Left lyrics devoid of Right rhythmic tone, Secularized monotheism not yet open toward sacred panentheistic song and dance systemic communications co-arising cognitive/affective resonance feeling verbalizing thoughts: If not yet unhealthy broke, zero-sum bankrupt, in traumatic competitive shouting consumptive hate and all-consuming anger and consumer fear of crisis, then what? Perhaps deep listening for feelings sung and needs danced out with those who do appreciate individual sacred egos are win/win made to become half Other warm ecosystemic environments of wellness planning unbroken, undivided, reassociating Trust Reconsidered in here healing musical space through eternal now not hurting, killing, hurling time Win/Win bicameral dipolar co-arising engagement ego/eco-systemic resilient unbroken anthro health is true resonant holiday and every day wealth, Earth environmental deep learning from win/lose brokenness toward future win/win reweaving song and dance LeftEgo/RightEco therapeutically cooperative mending mindfulness of integrity's potential for resonant healing individual isolating events of felt broken climates, Pre- and/or Post-traumatic stress inherited from past falling short, narrow, shallow everyday present awareness Intuitively wanting to fix future traumatic lose/lose awkward and malforming breaks and win/lose competitive risks threatening long-term consumer malfunction, and win/win synergetic mindbody integrity of ego songs and fire circle eco-dances recycling cooperative EarthDay and Night resilient musical consciousness. and win/lose risks With winBody/winMind synergetic integrity of ego dancing eco cooperative singing compassionate NewYear consciousness.

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