Stretching Health Care

My oldest friend, and older, too, has a daily yoga practice of self-care, which I would healthier emulate. But, when I mentioned this as rich in comparison with my own brief leg stretches while tube-feeding my son, and occasional too brief dancing and jumping with my cerebral palsied daughter, He responds to my neglect of self care with self-deprecating acclaim for my daily investment in young adult bodies inhabiting wounded child concerns. I recognize this response in literature of sacred messiahs and family health care martyrs and extended family matriarchs and secular ecofeminist mentors of selflessness, ego annihilation, empty nesters, nonself-investors. While all such roleplays, diurnal through eternal, are counter-cultural, with redemptive value and stretching of compassion, I question their/our capacity for resilience as even the most cooperative win/win co-invested economist would question total eco-investment through absolute ego-divestment, outgoing care for health while bleeding out all internal wealth of energy power light. Yoga stretches internal minds to resonantly balance external bodies fully re-creating co-acclimating resonant resilience. This stretching, toning touching feeling balancing centering communicating cooperative empowering compassionate enlightening I could do with my son and my daughter daily, and perhaps timelessly, with sufficient commitment and imagination, creativity and regenerative health intent to optimize our shared systemic wealth Stretching from where we are toward when we will become together in shared passion.