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Journeys With Father Time

Hi! I'm Sister EarthChild journalist with Youth Radio speaking with Mother Time, who recently published her hilarious "Journeys With Father Time: Wasted Journals of Mother Time." First, I want you to know I've been reading your book as if it were my own story. So, why the "wasted" journals? Mother Time: Our issues of apparent matriarchal waste in cooperative nature may be better grasped as ecosystemic boundary issues, between Fr. Time's Journey and my Journal, confined to the back pages of history. And, yet, my point is this waste is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Energy and resources from one organism, invested in one species, contribute to supporting deductive lower-order consumer co-owned foodchain providers and supported by inductive higher-order ecosystem nurturers, WinWin matriarchal cooperative networks, political relationships, economic transactions. Apparent deductive decomposing waste feedback re-investments to help cooperatively maintain our spiraling flow of energy and sacred environmental seasonal stability for all transitioning organisms, great and small. So my matriarchal journals are about wastes of history, when matriarchal cooperative ecopolitical systems were not yet fully commodified and were under-invested of and for more cooperative values of democratic trust and mutual freedoms, rights and lefts together. Sister EarthChild: You talk funny. Are you asking us to reconsider matriarchal waste as symbiotic exchange between and within partnering Patriarchs with Matriarchs? And, if so, pardon me, but isn't that rather an old school invitation? M. T. Journeys With Father Time are nutritional gambles, where even trees hedge our bets, extracting nutrients from old leaves before recycling, freely absorbing as needed when needed, but no more. And, if less, we do not blame them for wasting what they never had to give. S. E. You say, of your journeys in dialogue with Fr. Time, "these are sustained by resource richness producing excess dissonant waste, re-investments supporting higher yet denser co-evolving creolizing nutritionally healthy outcomes." Is that faith in the supremacy of cooperation over competition, do you think? I was just wondering, trying to follow the regenerative string of your co-creation story. M. T. We can look at matriarchal history to find apparent RightBrain waste as potential LeftBrain abundance. Over time, unused resources become energy sources for something other, some polypathic nutritional system of Earth's co-intelligence. This is a liberating process, but freedom of authority including responsible limits on cooperatively available energy, within any one journey, one time, one space, limits of polypathic diversity, pressured through competitions about what is waste and what is of healthy value, yet continuously within WinWin co-absorbing regenerativity. S. E. Any final thoughts? We're almost out of time. M. T. Almost out of time for Patriarchy Knows Best Journeys. To your generation of sisters, work on lower carbon-cost investments for re-investing deductive/inductive decompositional journalistic materials, themes, lesson plans, designs for regenerative network building. S. E. And, I guess we'll have to leave you with that. Whatever that was. Now, can we talk about my favorite story, The Rise and Fall of Roman-Capitalist Colonialism? M. T. Oh, really? That's your favorite? The one where the Patriarchal God of Love builds ballistic bombs and bullets so we can militarize and criminalize future generations worshiping this Patriarchal God of Loving Mistrust, made in our own memories of further travels with Fr. Time? S. E. Yes, that one! Kind of a mix of gothic horror with operatic tragic-comedy. M. T. I think that's my favorite wasted journal entry too.

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