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Snail Trails and Rat Tails

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To and for, and possibly from, Bucky Fuller's synergetic Zeroism.

My transportive awesome Muse speaks of a hiking trail for an aging snail. My communicative wondrous music is dancing choreography for an ageless bee coming. I ask if I might speak with the Editor in Chief of my town's daily GoodNews Bulletin... No. I do not have an appointment... Yes. It is regarding GoodNews for his local variety show he hopes to continue WinWin Gaming hereabout and OtherWise. Golden Rules and governing Ratios of trust over active distrust, investing in PositivEnergy over Negative BadNews... Once inside this CEO's office, I thank him for his patriarchal time and then spin a matriarchal web yarn. I ask him if he is interested in partnering with our EcoSchool Academy to harvest youth-led Green investigative journal telling stories about public health v RedHot pathology. He asks me, Why and how do you see Public, or even Private, Health sufficiently and necessarily Green? It seems to me, he circuitously continues, our circulatory nutrition systems are red going in and mysteriously blue respiration breathing bilaterally out Left and Right synergetic Elder Right with Younger Left dynamic old spiritual and new natural EarthTribes of RNA then DNA extended family enscriptions for Earth CoRevolutionary Survivors rock rolling MotherEarth Matriarchal SpaceTime, 4D RealTime WinWin GoodNews Bulletins. This sounds EgoSelf-serving, now that I rewind and wind and wind, and perhaps too eco-centrically webbed for LeftBrain dominants to fractally follow patriarchally along, but that might explain the Editor in Chief's GoodNews circulatory problems, pathological trends too Red for resilient Right with Left Wings, and actively cooperating feet. Predictably, Chief Editor asks about who is paying for all this and how will these stories grow ad revenue. So I use an example of a real world, not fake news, journalistic activism scenario-- a Thought Experiment for cooperative dialectal two. Students, in secure pairs, could survey Cliff St. neighbors to find out how many renters and homeowners have had rodent issues this winter. Why is that a reasonable question to ask? My oldest son lives there with hungry river rats eating his refrigerator and his stove wiring. He has noticed extermination winter service trucks and growing trends frequently about accumulating private health investment, and steel over concrete double-barriers non-absorbing, more appropriate to resist our four-legged too friendly pests. I see Public Health but I still don't see Green Activism. The rats and their terrorized roommates probably see this as a Green cooperative ownership concern, health-supporters avoiding way too much BadNews bloodshed issues, competing and losing investments and assets, nests and tails and pet paws with their side-by-side neighbors, hoping to spend less of little competitively-gained green goodnews they have left for food, now rodent-devoured, and new wind-poured refrigerators and new solar-fueled stoves autonomously, because of an unspoken and, to date, not noticed Public Pathology expense of anti-cooperatively owned WinWin Green seen as too Red RightWing economic and political LeftBrain dominant WinLose issues. Which sells BedNews and GoodNews papers and larger circulations increase values for local ad co-investors, Especially from exterminator for-profits and neighborhood revitalization non-profits, and public and private health services. And possibly Green STEM EcoSchools and PositivEnergy Cooperative Corporations and CoHousing Developers, and Rodent Rights Advocates, and Tenant Organizers, and Attorneys and Domestic Cleaning Services and appliance recyclers and Environmental Protection Agencies... You had me with BadNews exterminators. So what's in this for you? My oldest son and I co-own his home. While he has no frig or stove he comes to my place to eat and eat. That young man and his girl can EAT! And, I'm paying for half of our exterminator contract with my Social Security income. Why do you ask? Because if you have no skin in this WinWin Game, then I don't know if I can trust your lack of ego-investment. For me, to be a Green 2020 Health Revolutionary is awesomely resonant wealth of Earth's Bilateral Resilience, sung through my-our DNA's past co-investments regenerating Earth's EcoSchool History. My reincarnating awesome DNA-RNA Muse unfolds hiking snails merging ancient four-seasoned trails. My inside music wondrous bilateral communication dances bee language of ageless choreography becoming co-operators.

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