Once Upon a Reservation
Back in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain prominent,
throw-back quasi-human
First EarthNation
Nature/Spirit pantheistic
wrong-languaged
uncolonizing
uncultured Tribes.
Unfortunately,
not all primitive handicaps fit equally well
in the same Reservation Stew.
For some,
these new places were a somewhat different temperate zone,
not home, but not hell either,
and therefore tolerable,
But basically mistrusted
as a nongift
from an alien,
arrogant,
too-privileged,
undemocratic,
Great White Father
authoritarian figure
of incomprehensibly irresponsible speech--
as if you could actually own water
and soil
and airwaves
and healthy polycultural forests,
and oceans,
or even MotherEarth Herself.
For others,
more introspective,
all of the above,
plus
insufferably claustrophobic paranoia,
serious mental and physical disabling survival issues
and an unseemly
diseased failure to thrive,
especially for the young and old,
and maybe those mysteriously reserved
mother gardeners
and trees,
and wanna-be EarthRooted SacredGarden GrandMothers.
Today we can still see disabling remnants,
sometimes oppressive Reservation Group Homes,
DayCare NonCenter BiWay
or the HighWayStations,
NonTherapeutic Nursing Homes
Holding Cells
and Special InsideOnly Classroom
LeftBrain Only Schools,
designed by a sinister failure to listen
to outdoor disabled
wounded voices
A failure to multiculturally listen
for polycultural wealth optimizing
health standards,
dearest.
...What she said,
And, how much time have we invested in listening
to hurt children
and really confused hormone-appropriate adolescents,...
Don't talk about unhealthy sexual non-relational deprivation,
love,
It's too vulnerable a topic
for your Poetry Club Meeting.
...What she said,
And listening to immature adults with physical disabilities,
and defeated,
wrinkled,
bent over weeping willows
with no idea when they were last held
and loved as a fully cherished
AnthroTribal Gifted/Gifting Ego
Person, old Positive Psychologist,
not Ego,
Valued persons here in this sacred space,
this Earth NonReservation Place.
A fully cherished person
is not shipped off to the Reservation
where everyone knows
we are all able to grow in multicultural love...
With polyculturally robust health outcomes.
What s/he said,
And "Special" home or classroom
or habitat
does not necessarily mean better
or healthier,
And, for some,
"Special" seems to grow pathologically worse.
Or at least
Seems to not grow any better long-term vibrant health.
Right,
our disability Reservations
appear to be further dis-enabling
as health-optimizing nutritional habitats
As compared with wealthy green environments
filled with organic eco/ego-therapeutic parents
and teachers
of Food and Fuel and Fiber MultiSensory Justice
for All.
Especially for all disabling side-by-side siloed residents
living in primarily inside-voices habitats
without the music and dance,
voices and movements
of NatureSpirit's Great EarthTribe,
First RightBrain prominent
non-languaged
secular/sacred Elders,
all equally WinWin emerging
from EarthMother's polyculturing...
Really?
Now I would have gone with
Nature/Spirit multiculturing...
ZeroZone WinWin warm-wet-Womb.
Kind of a pre-revolutionary
post-millennial
WWW cooperative health optimizing place
With non-reserved Real SpaceTime 4D WealthTrends.
Much too transparent
and creolizingly vulnerable.
Let's get back to dreams
of building better outdoor classrooms,
FourSeason porches
and greenhouses
and organically resilient gardens
and decks
and seaside docks,
observation platforms...
And networks
For worshiping NatureSpirit Earth Voices,
radiant skin caressing outdoor Beauty,
look and feel of green wildgrass
in raised beds
for sensory hand play
and lower,
for naked foot massages,
back-rub rocks
and historic trails of shade embracing MotherTrees
reforesting a therapeutic nutritional Planet...
Don't forget natural lighting
and a preference for clean and radiation-safe air,
more music and less bombing and sirens
and automated ballistics
ricocheting inside military classrooms...
And sufficient pure-flowing water,
so clear
we can remember Antelope and Buffalo Elders
drinking from nearby playful streams...
And Eagles,
Don't forget to mention the Eagles and Hawks...
What about the Doves?
Too redundant...
Not your primary audience.
And recycling hydropower mills,
Awesome rain chains
and solar panels
and wind turbines
and resonant chimes
and harmonic bells
and prisms
for inside rainbow light
where candlelight
would feel resiliently safe.
I fear we have veered far off our original
raised-bed reservation.
I miss the music of my colonizing youth.
But not the Muse,
apparently.
Transparently?
Not for us to say
on this enabling health and nutrition
and organic food
and synergetic fuel
and WinWin fibrous network Way.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2018
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