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I wrote, and published, in "Permaculture Opera" a 2017 version of this piece, titled Impertinence of Zealotry, about the early Trump administration's disregard of health care for people and planet.  Rereading this piece recently, I was struck at how it feels like Covid-19 era foreshadowing.  So, I updated and edited with further 20/20 revisionary sight.

Pertinent Compassion Impertinence reminds Roshi Susan Murphy, refers not only to Trumpian rudeness crudeness ruthlessness but also irrelevance to Earth's Kingdom at Compassionate Healing Hand. I was watching "Silence" of zealous colonizing missionaries learning therapeutic compassion by growing more relevant to cultures languages indigenous to unwashed aliens suffering from capital-zealous impertinence of selfishly empowered elites. This, in turn, reminded me of Trumpian impertinence regarding health and safety offensive disregard of a people, my people, our people, a democratically inclusive nation, but also, in this time of growing climate pathologies, a health-impassioned species Interdependent with thousands of indigenous alien species, all breathing invested and divested polluted air just as fire ebbs and swells, And dries up all drinking water just as Earth's skin absorbs and impertinently dries out burns out plays out resilient compassion for human colonizing impertinence climatically building, evaporating clean air and pure and pertinent waters of Earth's primal safe baptism. Impertinence is deaf and blind and capitalistically dumb in abusive reaction against Earth's relevant sacred health care voices and multicultural healing intentions. When Trumpians campaign and vote against global health care of pertinent compassion, boycott audaciously healthy democratic hope, We are not bicamerally remembered, heard and felt and supported and well represented by disregarding past legislating Democrats and Republicans, and all creolizing in between conserve and liberate, who would not deny any creature an affordable health care giving and receiving compassionate act, Which should not be confused with unaffordable colonizing death-supporting zealotry. Toxic reactions against health and safety exclude care for and with those most likely to suffer first from lack of pure and pertinent drinking water healthy soil for people and our interdependent plants, troubled by zealous smoke and fires colonizing dried out dispassions resisting more bicameral healing pertinence of better healthcare climates audaciously wealthier and multiculturally therapeutic past Wise and pertinent missionaries, permacultural designers, compassion empowering facilitators of and for restoring peaceful justice arrive on new adventure shores to grow co-empathic love, co-passioning health, First to listen and learn indigenous health and climate care values and core disvalues already implanted through sacred MotherEarth's green-blue eco-political voices Democratically speaking of what is least likely resonant with too violent and zealous forgetting to see and hear and think impertinence of rude Red horizons predicting further climates and internal landscapes of diseased fear and anger co-arising dispirited and denatured hate While surrounded still by Earth's reciprocal Green-Blue chorus of more quietly passioned living waters restoring peace circles regenerating audaciously warming fires under cold lent full moon skies pertinent with healing light compassions.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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