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Through Thick and Thin

I think it might be John Rawls
who writes about
thick and thin justice sandwiches.

Thick justice
may be more deeply embedded, richly spread
in regenerative pursuing time,
producing and serving healthy wealth relationships,
often digestively motivated
to achieve nutritional communion goals,

While thinner justice
lies closer to today's contemporary bread
of legalistic compliance issues,
what minimally defines a reductive 
democratic 
barely legal sandwich,

Avoiding aristocratic lusts 
and greedy royalist aggression 
of privileged political evangelists
yet still lacking robust internal absorption
of richer ethical behavior,
proper interdependent moral discipline
rooted in normative co-operativity
and not impatient competitions for more sectarian power
for, and marketed by, 
those who already have too much well-fed apartness authority
to retributively enforce laws 
against consumers of too much thinly privatized poverty
to serve the already privileged public evangelists first 
and thickly better, yet implicately bitter

Too thin justice not even intended to be fair
to those who have inferior capital wealth
and are legally treated as if we are also least
among emotional intelligence.

As a gay male child
of the 50s and 60s
in white privileged North America,
I know something about this apartheid
of power and authority to choose
between popular wealthy disciplines
of punishing deviance laws
as thinly contrasted against robust ethical discernment
of multiculturally embedded deep and wide and thick inclusive listening,
loving polypathic learning through Left deductive legal
and Right inductive moral compassion,
co-intelligence

Restoring communication bridges between thinning out procedures,
policies
propriety,
and deeper, thicker, more robust ethical justice
informed by a positively compassionate psychology
encouraging us to follow our shared nutritional Light,

A thick polypathic Light
thin from-above theistic, for some, 
producing sacred v secular apartness,
for others, a-theistic, polyculturing internal communion,
for a few, Tipping Pointed toward narrow truth-ways 
of polyphonic ringing Words
producing EarthJustice comprehensive Rights,

Some fertile combination of these severed two
thin through thick sandwiched
spiritual-theological intent
and natural-ecological means,
like organic peanut butter liberally spread
with unsweetened red raspberry conservations,
communing toward resilient
restorative 
thickly thought and felt justice intelligence.

Which precludes confusing undisciplined narcissistic injustice
with legal democratic constitutional practices
preserving communal peace-mongering truth processes
economic and political,
ecological and theologically mutual correcting intelligence
reaching back to earliest nutritional seeds
of robust digestive discernment resources
for distinguishing impoverishing thin threats
from robust wellness opportunities 
for better
richer 
communal justice sandwiches,

Healthier servings of LeftEmbodied legal disciplines
avoiding seeds and roots of violent apartheid hoarding
and sectarian privileged intelligence 
with hidden toxic intent,

Instead, making love with RightMind deep digested
polypathic intelligence
polynomially deep listening
for legal/moral learning
impatient Yang's autonomous conservative tendencies
to overpower matriarchal cooperative thick communion
feeding Yin's more robust nutritional compassion.

These two binomial appositionals,
justice thin and not injustice thick
co-arise discovered bridges
between what is communion healthy sufficient justice
and what is wealthy WinWin Right emotional intelligence
to non-violently do,
to peacefully say,
to justly become,
to cooperatively co-enchanted be,
to restore just climate non-apartheid health resources
internally buttered
and externally breaded.

To follow LeftBody visually-verbally dominant Ways
is also to listen for RightMind discerning recessed voices
remembering optimal WinWin nutritional past events,
experiences as deep and wide sandwiched
as polypathic DNA just intelligence,
spreading just-right/left strings of nurturing 
warm wet wombed 
non-visually felt SpaceTime,
Here with Now co-passioning
co-gravitating
co-arising,

Breathing compassionate nutrition in,
blowing nurturing discernment co-operatively out and up
Regeneratively rich feedback loops as old as wombs
and fertile MotherTrees
with leaves
and nurture-discerning root systemic 
just-us trust
left with just right crust,
not too thin or thick
for universalYang unitingYin communion.

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