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Summer Plot Development

In grade school many of us learned about plot development as variations on a WinLose theme-- Person v Self, Person v Other, Person v God/Universe/Earth/History/Evolution-- But probably nothing about cooperative garden plot development. Literature is replete with manly patriarchal ubiquitous competition themes required to hold consumer marketing interest, and usually the writer's own self-therapeutic or pathologically toxic fascination interests as well. Yet these WinLose themes are difficult to find in day to day organic history, because not the primary framework in WinWin polycultural plot development. Western patriarchal literature flirts with Every Wounded White Man lived happily ever WinWin after despite a WinLose opportunistic and self-hypnotizing Rapture not quite fully humane divine White capitalistic competing Historical World. For some LoseLose avoidance reason WinWin polyculturing outcomes came to mind when I outlined my morning and evening cooperative gardening plan for friends and extending family. 1. I recall all the 101 recent weedy moments when I reflected, inflicted, deflected grief and loss and shame and blame and WinLose repression suppression oppression, etc. On my Person v Self and my EgoPerson v EcoOther and my Person v OpenEarth Organic WinWin Systems, and my Yang Autonomous Person v Yin-Matriarchal CreatorGaia EarthMotherLand and WombingSeas and Warm through Colder Seasons of my business as competing usual day. 2. I do my best to think of one or two or even three cooperative just-right moments in between all the WinLose weeds above, when I and We recreated WinWin, as I fed and watered no Loser victims, including myself. 3. I declare and explore partial not notWinning success. 4. I celebrate my potential sacred opportunities for more and stronger and healthier flowing WinWin tomorrows as a secular PositivEnergy Person within a confluent EgoSelf, as a sacred vocational identity with a future for and a past of WinWin resilient EarthTribe Others, as a HealthingEgo within Sacred WinWin ecological His/Her-CreationStory. 5. AND, I spring and summer evening ignore LeftBrain transposition tensions, analogical words for RightBrain potential ecological integrity AND WonderWander my LeftBrain Ego and Awe Zero-sum my RightBrain CoPresent sacred ecological extended family SacredOther recreating re-memories Reweaving my best WinWins getting down, even sexy organic garden stalking and eating time nutritionally co-invested.

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