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Premium Member Powerful Polite Imaginations
Imagine with me
that your local
political
economic community,
municipality,
bioregion
is a communication network
already at hand,
like a potentially benign kingdom
or mutually informed democracy,

Which is what some residents actively hope for
as...

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Categories: suboptimal, earth, games, health, heart,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Hope For Respect
My thought for this day,
although still early,
is respect for hope.

Respect for our interdependence
and respect for our challenging differences,
important, yet hopefully not as powerful
as our interdependent...

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Categories: suboptimal, bible, caregiving, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Fishy Science School of Geometric Arts
Math speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.

Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right...

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Categories: suboptimal, adventure, earth, life, light,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Polypathic Political Scientists
I have had a highly redundant,
one might even choose polypathic,
graduate studies experience
spanning my adult life to date.

This began with a semester of Philosophy.
Just enough to...

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Categories: suboptimal, beauty, culture, health, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Political Democracy of Economic Health
What are your values and disvalues of and for power?

What are the political powers and weaknesses,
incapacities,
of economic value?
What is not for sale?
What is available, but...

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Categories: suboptimal, destiny, health, philosophy, political,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Three Faces of Wisdom
I am reading minds and potentially wise political bodies
with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, again.

He speaks of three interdependent aspects of wisdom.
The first is rooted in ecoconscious comprehension
of...

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Categories: suboptimal, earth, education, health, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Love Lesson Planning
First, imagine, if you can,
"Love" is not just a many splendored thing,
although it is that,
but behaviorists and existentialists behavioralize
the complex of emotions and consciousness
wearing that...

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Categories: suboptimal, conflict, culture, discrimination, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Divine Empowerment
The SunGod of ReGenerative NOWtime
is not a jealous lover.
S/he is an omnipotently bilateral lover of integrity,
revolving spirals of Earth's multicultural confluence,
abundant divinely humane polyculturing climax...

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Categories: suboptimal, culture, earth, health, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Goflow Up the Mountain
Once upon an eternal sacred time of Earth's Golden Age,
Yin knew her body as a divinely virginal forested place
given equally to all for and of...

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Categories: suboptimal, beauty, creation, culture, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Ta0 Zen Climate Health
The more continuous from past through future our ego-stretching identity becomes,
the more god/dess-humane omnipotent emerges
our original polypathic multicultural intent
and future climate health practice.

Consilience,
co-empathic democratic trust,
between...

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Categories: suboptimal, culture, health, humor, language,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Masters of Public Administration
A few decades ago
I learned a Master of Public Health v Pathology Administration
recognizes best opportunities emerge
by co-evolving cooperative mastery of private-public nonduality,
lovely political truths
shyly hiding...

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Categories: suboptimal, culture, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Postmillennial Virus
What remains 
when gratitude for learning
totally evaporates?

I don't know...
Totalitarian senility, maybe?
I guess I don't understand
the source of your question, dear.
Do you feel less grateful for...

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Categories: suboptimal, art, earth, education, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Changing Systems
I'm reading this book called
"Systems Thinking for Social Change"
by David Stroh.

Although this is not his paradigm of systemic choice,
He talks about WinWin strategizing
for optimal outcomes
Rather...

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Categories: suboptimal, change, earth, health, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Writing Healthy Copy
My longer life
reads like a ransacked,
formerly almost democratic constitution,
Whether well read in organic silence
or not so screaming fascist tumored
rumor bad-humored
much.

Some days present easy milestone messages
to...

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Categories: suboptimal, art, change, color, culture,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Opening Closed Doors
Death
is when my last door closes,
and how,
and why
I stopped looking forward
toward more of getting older.

He said
before he died.
Until then,
his life had been gratitude for open
and...

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Categories: suboptimal, beauty, caregiving, death, health,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs