The Sunday Morning Trainer

She says she tries to be both tender and challenging with herself, to fall less, to dance more, to help others fail less and athletically prance more. As she drives past the library, closed for Sunday liturgy, she sees the Seventh Day Adventists on the front corner with their sign large enough for motorists, "What is TRUE success?" Although understanding this question is rhetorical with a dogmatic answer readily at hand for those with more adventurous challenging responses and dialogical interests, she honks her tender feminist horn and shouts out to celebrate "HEALTH!" White Adventists turn darker red and reply "Not HELL but Heaven, each day on Earth God's patriarchal Sabbath, for those with eyes to see Trust and ears to hear Truth." "Not HELL," she returns while pulling over; "Health is true success." "What about spiritual and politically empowering success?" the sign-holder challenges without much obvious tenderness. "Mental health is spiritually empowering health, at least in my experience. And yours?" "I may see your pointedness. But, what of true economic success?" "Cooperatively invested financial health." "Religious and cultural success?" "Natural/spiritual synergetic health, or so it seems to nondualistic tenderly challenged me." "If health is success, then what is wealth?" in your challenged tender pathology, heading toward Hell." "You are among those who segregate sacred sabbath health from secular business as usual wealth, in an unhealthy bipolar nature v spirit way I fear, without intending blame or shame." With your same bipolar challenging division you could also choose to hear dipolar tender invitations in-between hell and heaven, secular wealth and sacred climate health, natural informing spiritual questions like, What is TRUE success? As she pulls away, tenderly upward and challenging onward.