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Origins Of Over Nurturing

...Origins Of Over Nurturing 

My need to protect others began during my turbulent adolescence. It started out as the need to protect others from me. This morphed into over nurturing everyone around m...

UnSung IrReligious DisAuguration

...How does it feel to you
when presidents proclaim anthro-supremacy
exclusively made
in one universal God's
straight WesternWhite monotheistic 
over-Capitalized 
autocratic entitlement
for a mon...

Are We Safer Now

...Joy in mourning
opens this new eye day.

Am I OK?

Healthy?

Compromised
yet survive able
air inhaling
"Death, tonight,
or some tomorrow,
my life's inevitable
closed,
no longer curious,...

Follow your bliss

...To create a happy life, you must follow your bliss
Channel your subconscious mind, to make the most of this 
You have to speak right to your soul, and be true to yourself
Find the thing that moves...

Love on the Dark Side

...
You senselessly hurt me,
     Then, demand I do not cry.

You frustrate me,
     Then, unsympathetically, punish my display of anger.

You ridicule me,
     Then, taunt me when I strive to w...

Choosing Love

...I feel victimized
by the commercial success
of what was once a silent,
waiting,
watching
for Emmanuel,
Allah WithIn Us

I wonder
when I become red-faced angry
about not being able to CONSER...

The World Is Changing

...("I of the Beholder", 2014, original pen and ink)

The World Is Changing

Quick as thought
The world is changing
Right before our eyes
Everywhere 
People waking up 
To what needs to c...

Our Love Is the Key

...I can't break free
 I'm disempowered by the kryptonite
You can't blame me
 circumstances led me where i never wanted to go
And I do agree
 that some choices weren't the brightest at the time
Bu...

Rightmindfulness Activities

...I wonder...

If RightWing Activists
are, thereby,
actively against
Allies of a healthy
cooperative
co-invested
compassionate democracy.

If RightMind disempowered pessimists
lack Win/Win e...

Mixing Politics and Religion

...My grandfather
seemed wise with years
walking his rural spiritual path
in a relentlessly white
Christian dualistic church
dividing sinful nature
from sacred spirit.

He counseled:
Do not mix...

Rewarding Inclusion

...I doubt it was a philosopher,
more likely an emperor,
but possibly both,
who first explored this sad relationship
between exclusion
and punishment,
colonialism
feeding repression.

I'll bet ...

Riding Sixties Shotgun

...I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread 
heavenly ThriftyAcres

Wanna be a ...

Decolonizing Capitalism

...We are nearly all macro-economic capitalists
Yet micro-economic cooperativists
with those we trust

S/he said
while burning up
and out.

Yet,
a Patriarchal Capitalist
has also fully monopol...

Bipolarity

...BiPolarity
has been largely ignored
polarization,

Linear and stagnant hierarchies
peaking in well-capitalized severance
and sterile self-satiation

Use you
then leave you
win/lose planning...

Widowed Compassion

...Said the old widow cook
to the drag queen son
feeding his/her dying abusive dad,
while offering her nurturing donation:

"I don't want your money.
We're not savages, yet."

Other words
that ...

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