Snakes and Hummingbirds

To love, agapic and/or erotic, is a positive economic-political relational choice to trust whomever and whatever is our Other right now with open caring empathy, even when we may feel like withdrawing into suffering, self-isolating depressive, repressed concerns of mistrust and dissonance, because we have faith that not only is this choice to integratively love, to pay love forward, how we define doing our ecopolitical and ecological best, but also because we trust from prior experience this is most likely to facilitate Others doing their best as well. Circles of affection and disaffection are both viral, but only one is viciously so, Both positive and negative psyches unveil viscous potential, but only one tends toward sustained reiterative communication in kind, benign, the other viscosity trends toward unkind, active distrust, eventually hatred, also a learned ecopolitical choice, at one time, over several habitual and then hypnotizing times. When this becomes most interesting for me when I turn from thinking of Other as a person or a group of people or a set of people or the human natural-languaged species, and think, instead of Other as a member of some other organic species, including those with root systems, including coral reefs and tidal barriers, or even other natural Black Hole environments and gestalts, networking mandalas of seas and mountain trails throughout the changing of each season, where love is my ubiquitously obvious and natural default, not so much feeling like a choice, but like what I have known as good and healthy and beautiful, occasionally interrupted by pests. Yet, even noticing whiney mosquitoes and buzzing icky biting flies, short of a horde swarming all about paranoid me, is often cause for bittersweet slaps and swats and imaginary battles between David and Goliath, with me cast as the benignly-intended Monster Giant, merely out to protect my own skin regardless of mortal consequences and risks and ecopolitical opportunities of Other, smashed to bits. When my days become overly clogged with strictly human discourse, when human nature monopolizes my monoculturish time, my symbol seems to be that of a molting snake, awakening to a new but uncertain skin each dewy morning, a somewhat different identity than those accumulated through all my dreamy/nightmare yesterdays. But, when I recreate outdoors in and with and of more virginal embryonic Earthy nature, then my icon becomes an inviting hummingbird, always curiously flying about seeking and sending succulent rapture, far too fast and urgently blissful for noticing, much less slitherally eating, those pesky mosquitoes. Inviting co-empathic trust defines Doing my best to follow our Golden Rule, for and of and with me and my Elders and our kids. Inviting empathic cooperatively-invested trust is to invite a climate of informed incarnate kosmic risks and opportunities usually small yet sometimes Great Transitions of Grace as Love as Karma as Positive Psychology as a healthy regenerative ecopolitical gestalt, mandala, network, ecosystem, Earth, natural-spiritual dipolar co-arising profane-sacred humane-divine Tao-BiCameral Universe of Snakes greeting Hummingbirds and notnot dialectal vice-viral-versa.