January Calendar

Opening a new 2019 calendar, January unveils an Arctic Wildlife Refuge view of glaciered mountains behind a frozen river surrounded by bedrocks grey and bleak black and rusty brown. The Wilderness Society caption claims this as our "treasured landscape that the indigenous Gwich'in people" name, proclaim? "Sacred Place Where Life Begins." Rather than The same old frigid and barren secular place where any decent life could only abruptly end in hopelessly frozen defeat. This juxtaposition seems to capture essential compassionate v narcissistic human destinies of choice. Both Wildlife Refuge views could be valid, but the indigenous birthplace choice to see opportunity feels more integratively useful, more communion sustainable, resilient, rather than bitterly brittle. The Dalai Lama teaches, and presumably practices, as have other messianic/bodhisattva re-creations, a distinction between empathic pictures and compassionate stories. Empathy may associate with RightBrain feelings of happiness and despair, ecstasy, but also cynical disenchantment, with some Other past, present, future, human, animal, plant, planet... Compassion is more about LeftBrain planning what I, we, cooperatively together walking in newborn, reborn solidarity will do to heal wounds, minimize risks, and more resiliently sustain sacred opportunities for unborn/reborn future life. Empathy opens windows, pictures, landscapes, refuges, sanctuaries toward proactive cooperative co-passion. Practiced, informed, experienced, trained, educated, supported development of co-responsibility, green integrity, Synergetic vulnerability, matriarchally cooperative wombs open life to empathy, co-empathy, eco-empathy with wounded and therapeutic lifelines, compassionate rebirth conquering narcissistic pre-death In 2019, 2020 sharper revision, and so on.