On Naming Plants and Animals

A Commentary on "A Note on the [Patriarchal-Colonizing] Treatment of Plant Names" by Robin Wall Kimmerer, p. 385 BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: INDIGENOUS WISDOM, SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, AND THE [SACRED] TEACHINGS OF PLANTS I too often accept with nary a LeftBrain dominant thought that our verbalized labels for individual EgoPersons are RoyallyCAPITALIZED. To write "Marvin Appletree" would be to strip my tree of His/Her sacred status as an EarthTribe indigenous child of MotherEartha long before my own anthrosupremacist sense of owning Real Estate and all the Othered squatters breathing anonymously on It. It would be LeftBrain laughable to write "Mosquito" if this were in reference to a flying insect, any non-individuated yet potentially annoying predative Other. LeftBrain Capitalization conveys a certain Either/Or divisive distinction, difference, privileged dissociation, The anthrosupremacist position of humans normatively communicating outside our sacred Grand Canyon spaces and our own Creations and our own proprietary Estates esteemed private and corporate ownership within a Patriarchal hierarchy of CAPITALIZED Beings. Economists have widely adopted the win/lose Capitalism convention of not sufficiently capitalizing investing in the common sacred values of organic plants and animals unless they are included in a HumanNature narrative for an official sacred space place LeftBrain labeled Holy Spirit Natured Sanctuary. Thus, the first blossoms of my favorite RightBrain cooperative gift: Spring bursting flowers forth in sacred organic Forests Are LeftBrain written as bloodroot and the pink star of a California Yosemite National Park tiger lily. This seemingly natural non-spiritual LeftBrain normative verbal rulemaking in Either EgoMine/OrAlienOther labeling expresses deeply held competitive win/lose assumptions about HumanNature monopolized monotheistic dualistic exceptionalism, That ego-privileged speakers and writers are valued sacredly different and monotheistically better than other EarthTribe panentheistic Holy Nature/Spirited species acting as our Othered also-ran un-invested backdrop, Mere organic environment with only the Truth and Beauty we so royally assign on our magnanimous best healthy days and benign wealthy nights to revere our Sacred Elders. Indigenous wisdom recognizes reconnects re-ligions polycultural co-relationship of all interdependent organic Beings As equally 7th Principle unitarian sacred and ecopolitically universally important RightBrain imported transpositioned communioned co-passionate Not in a Patriarchal hierarchy of ecopolitical scarcity to merely win/lose survive otherwise degenerative lose/lose nihilistic genocidal ecocidal outcomes But a PolyCultural Blue/Green Global Communion eco-revolving gifts spiraling circles of EarthTribe Left/Right balancing life includes RightBrain emotive love impressions. So, in my LeftBrain universal ego-narrative as in my RightBrain sacred unitarian love life, I break, disconnect to reconnect, without ego-LeftBrain partisan blinders, to write and speak and sing and dance freely With my MarvinGaye AppleTree, with the WiseHeron and Boisterous Walrus spirited natures when I value a panentheistic ego-person, human Holy NatureSpirited, or not; And sing Health and Safety Truth and Beauty bicameral secular/sacred Anthems of EarthTribe maples, herons, and bicameral balancing humans When I value a LeftBrain EitherMe/OrWe category AND a RightBrain holonically multiculturally polyculturally poyphonically polypathically felt polyvagal complexly abundant co-passionate win/win Yang-strong/yintegral-flow universal/unitarian secular/sacred reconception of consumer commodities as productive meaningful mindful BiPartisan Gifts Voting by sacred presence for resilient EarthTribe Left-healthy and Right sacred safety Democratic recycling revolving dynamic breathing in from above as out from below co-passion balancing MotherEartha energy.