Unnatural Specialists
I am more of a generalist
than a specialist
on nature
and on nurture,
on secular
and on sacred,
on ecological healthy relationships
and on theological interdependence.
Still,
like most reflective beings,
nourishing my interconnected rightbrain
while understudying leftbrain dominance
as a species
finding our spiritual natures
mysteriously segregated
from more natural nurturings.
Martha Rogers,
nurse educator extraordinaire,
describes me,
and you,
as whole,
yet still open,
and, like all living natural systems,
temporally unidirectional,
cumulative.
Although, perhaps an important difference
between rightbrain spiritual
and leftbrain natural lives
of reflective bicameral awareness
is our capacity for imagining
temporal bidirectionality
reverse of causality--
Enspirited time imagined running
forward and flowing back again
from today's starting point
or last night's
or tomorrow's
Especially when leftbrain comes into active verbal dialogue
planning healthier networks,
designing wealthier
natural/spiritual nurturing
yang/yin
left/right
ego/eco-systems
of non-violently secular
and ecofeminist natural,
AND compassionately sacred and spiritual
Whole
yet still Open
emergently polypathic/polyphonic
living generalist paradigms
for active/reflective
hope to restore justice healing dialogue
Applicable to both natural climate health
and spiritual multiculturing wealth.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2020
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