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When city life morphs
into a cacophony of noises;
splintered sounds levy a toll.
And anxiety overshadows my reality,
till I'm brought to the edge of tears,
and need to get away from it all.
So, I inevitably turn
to Nature's serene stillness,
to recharge my spirit.
I'm a people person,
but, at times,
I want to be left alone
with my thoughts,
listening to the mountains speak
in muted sounds of silence.
Leaving my stress behind,
I seek the isolation of Nature's wilderness,
in an unimaginably peaceful place
of quietude, beauty, and solitude.
And there, at night, the stars light up the sky,
bathing me in celestial light,
making me feel insignificant,
and yet, fundamentally connected, somehow.
All humans reside somewhere along the spectrum
And life as a human involves various spectrums
From personal to political,
And life on the spectrum changes as we mature
Mature in our focus from self to other.
Especially in politics we all tend to shift right
As we age and mature, sometimes because
Our ideals have been softened by reality
Often when our increased wealthy and property
Makes us want to protect it from the needy
Greedy reach of the Nanny State.
Emotional, spiritual and psychological spectrums
Can be nuanced and complex
While the political spectrum is more cut and dry;
At one end total government
And at the other, no government.
These are the two wings, left and right
Of political discourse and thus disagreement
Because they are fundamentally incompatible.
Yet people compromise, to get along
And meet their own complex and nuanced
Emotional, spiritual and psychological needs,
So most people support a middle of the road
Mix of limited and unlimited government intervention.
Most people of course don’t even think of it like this
They think of what is good for me, and
What is just and kind for others
Without ever thinking about what form of government
They have enabled and empowered
To fulfill their needs.
In the end it’s always a compromise
And yet given the ways and means
The compromise always skews left
As more and more resources become available
To meet the needy and greedy demands
Of the growing Nanny State.
In the end we compromise our freedom
For our comfort and security
A tightrope walk down the middle
Of a life of compromise
Which is another way of saying
A compromised life.
(9/15/26)
The Tumor
Last night, I watched a podcast
the man with the highest measured IQ
and I was pleasantly surprised
He looked and acted like a sane bloke
his views were an echo in my mind
best of all, he was like me, working-class
but had read the classics
his laughter was infectious
two hours well spent
His idea of God was how I think of God
there is good and evil in the world by
those who do not believe in the law of
nature and think they can ignore what
is fundamentally true
I woke up early following the thoughts
of the man with a high IQ and enjoying
my solitude, when the workers began
their day; those who are employed in
offices start their day at nine. nicely
dressed and in warm rooms
I had to see a cancer specialist at ten
Yes, I have a tumor on my thigh, and it
needs to be operated on
I accepted this news with calmness
befitting my state of mind, it is not
the first time a tumor has appeared
and dealt with through surgery
I liked the specialist and my doctor
no sentimentality, only facts, that´s
the way I like to live
I became the audience,
and witnessed a dance
of freedom, lights dimmed
the Pasa Doble lead out
I found in this masterpiece
the unfolding in Air, en l’
the union, transposed over
Swan’s in open Arabesque
a single leap
brushed the firmament
a country lost sight
of his gift to fly
Cunxin Li,
now Brisè drifts
in Red Dust
and the Dreamtime
writhes, in Cambré
offering a salute
To our new Master
~~~~~
Explanations of some words I used, all movements in Ballet
Air, en l’: In the air. Indicates that the movement is to be made in the air versus on
the ground such as rond de jamb en l’air.
Arabesque: [“Arabic”]. A position with one leg stretched straight out to the back while
turned out and keeping the upper body straight and lifted. One arm usually is stretched
out to the front in fourth, fifth or an open position.
Brisè: [“broken, breaking”]. A small beating step in which the movement is broken.
It starts on one or two feet and ends on one or two feet. Fundamentally, a brisè is an
assemble beaten and traveled. The working leg brushes from the fifth position to the
second so that the point of the foot is a few inches off the ground and beats in front of
or behind the other leg which has come to meet it; then both feet return to the ground
at the same time in demi-pliè fifth position.
Cambré: [“bent”]. A bend from the waist in any direction, but especially forward or back.
Pasa doble: (literal meaning in Spanish: double-step) is a typical Spanish march-like musical
style as well as the corresponding dance style danced by a couple
It is no longer headline news,
If anything scientific happens
it happens for a rational reason
If anything violent doesn't happen,
does it not happen
for an irrational unreasoned
compassionate nonresponse?
It is no longer byline news,
toxic anthro-aggressive at-most-spheres,
dark forbidding climes,
cold winter
evil viral feelings,
relentlessly depressing
grey-clouded
chaotic
irrational
random thoughts
Complicate competing patriarchal
privileged supremacy
win/lose systemic media events,
stories monotheistically vengeful
OldTestament fundamentalist
Either my religious way
or you get to play
work
suffer the Prodigal Son/Daughter
loser highway
Monoculturing news
neglecting to mention white anthro-privileged
Caste cast with strictly partisan
polarizing eco-political rightwing supremacy concerns
And fascinations with capitalism happens
when compassionate democratic health
unrealistically
irrationally doesn't happen
while relentlessly furthering
white dogmatically "patriotic"
straight male dominance
Is not exactly headline news
but more the RightWing monocultural
Thing To Reactively Do
to find HolyBible scripture
to fundamentally cut
and evangelically paste
for ego-salvaging
narcissistic denial of democratic rationality
divine support
Furthering each individual ego-identity's
selfie bootstrap LeftCognitive
culturally superior to RightEmotive
win/lose religiously partisan
straight white capitalism
overwhelming win/win
systemic multicultural
democratically cooperative
co-arising compassion.
My needs are fundamentally
greater
than any man can provide
whatever mankind
lost in the garden
left a hollow place inside
there is only one thing
that can fill it
but of that knowledge Satan lied
that our lack of love
and kindness
and of truth within has died
one man gained
the mastery
he has been appointed as our guide
in him lays the understanding
and where Gods wisdom
does reside
If you but will submit to him
he will all things you need provide
and all those who
are loving truth
will be taking up his side
do not be using self deciet
from him your thoughts
you cannot hide
everything you will ever need
to live forever
he has supplied
for mankind has philosophy tested
and every government has tried
broken every existing moral law
and his ingenuity has become his pride
but God gave us
his loyal Son
who over mankind will preside
those who have overcome
the ways of death
and upon his instruction have relied
to his embrace and to his house
he will take up as his Bride
Apocalypse chapters 2-3
COPYRIGHT © 2011 C. Michael Miller
via Duboff Law Group LLC
I think, and sometimes fear,
we have two ways, maybe more,
to read the four holy gospels,
and any sacred scripture,
and any regeneration/degeneration story
of creative tension,
win/win sweet spot future aspirations
midst win/lose historic raw spots
of past experience.
We can read Earth's inspired articulations
as a book of spiritually correct answers,
removed from complex historical-cultural context
in a move toward fundamentally correct creed development
for moral
and political
and economic
and ecological correctness.
And/or
we can listen for Earth's expirations
and inspirations,
reading and listening to naturally spiritual correcting questions,
embedded in universal historical
and uniting multicultural content
of fundamentally healthy development
for resiliently robust climates
and cultures,
timeless times of spiraling revolutionary win/win
ego/eco-logical balance corrections.
If we too readily approach sacred scripture for morally correct answers,
we are likely to forget
divine purpose seeks better,
more inclusive,
inviting,
transparent,
vulnerable,
courageous and curious health questions.
"Our schools are...factories,
in which the raw materials-- [Win/Win hopeful] children--
are to be shaped...into products...
The specifications for manufacturing
come from the [pre-millennial] demands
of 20th century [corporate] civilization,
and it is the [competition] business of the school
to build its [robotic white] pupils
according to the [nature wins so spirit loses] specifications
laid down [by naturally unspiritual disorder].
Dean Ellwood P. Cubberly
Stanford University School of [Fundamentally White] Education
1898
This does feel dated;
A caricature of post-millennial green ecoschools
for healing Earth
as a whole blue/green red-blooded therapeutic system,
sacred ecological home for plants
and ecotherapeutically cooperative people,
resilient bicameral students,
cooperative deep learning robust listeners
to outdoor theological classroom voices
singing more resonantly
restoring ego's inside harmonic peace
through ecojustice Voices.
Because we passionately disagree with 1898
Big patriarchal robotic incorporated Win/Lose propaganda places
against active and creative multicultural Win/Win integrity,
We also agree with deep learning green STEAM outside classroom models
for healthier
more resilient
more nature-spirit integral education
for allied EarthTribe integrity,
secular/sacred learning solidarity.
We would please our democratic selves more
running cooperatively away
from Bored of MisEducation competition platforms
and dualistic personalnature v publicspirit loyalty parties
We will do resiliently better health care
giving and receiving
re-celebrating choices for multicultural climate health
over more and more toxic public storm and terror patterns,
Business as uncooperatively unusual outside
while approaching 2020 more vigorously Left with Right aware,
by letting go of 1898 LeftBrain ego dominance inside.
Back in ancient matriarchal time
Divine inspiration told sacred stories
of epic journeys
for creation and birthing re-creation
and against death and degeneration
Around fire-circles
for cooking
and cleaning
and keeping wolves
and shape-shifters at bay
away from form-drifter nightmares.
These were told
and retold
like a wealthy creolizing river of DNA codex
speaking in four gospel prime voices,
And only then
began to become more patriarchal orthodox
as written down
in fundamentally evangelical missionary monoculturing
monotheistic Bibles.
Yet, even so,
what were they breathing in
while divinely expiring out?
As if DNA diversity
would be more self-regeneratively fluid and effective
when labeled in LeftBrain deductive networks
growing more pathology free
through authoritative cross-referenced liberty to read
Codex Either/Or
with Both/And double-bound
in-between binary binomial bilateral ingenuous integrity
of Left secular commodification
with Right sacred unification
co-operation
Dipolar co-arising
Left scientific Right sacred co-evolutions
of ecopolitical empowering/disempowering
scripture telling
Original multicultural matriarchal outside CreationStories
inside deep ecologically wealthy Voices.
Back in ancient matriarchy
timelessly understoried
warm womb of Time our reborn effluent selves.
(“Shadow Puppet”, 2023, original encaustic)
The wise ones, who’ve figured out the basic rules
Of physical reality, tell us that for every action
There is an equal and opposite reaction.
I don’t know about you, but this terrifies me.
I’ve spent my whole life trying
To figure out and be myself,
At least after those brief childhood years
When no trying is involved,
And this means looking for what’s real
And wanting to be kind and good
And figuring what love and truth and beauty really is.
Thinking about that basic law of motion now
It hits me like a tsunami;
If I’ve been doing the best I can in life
What have I actually been creating?
What “equal and opposite reaction”
Have I actually caused?
And is my effort to do good
Itself just the equal and opposite reaction
To some other force
A creative force that just makes me its pawn?
It’s a chicken and an egg kind of dilemma,
Except in the case of chicken and eggs
It’s obvious the egg comes first.
In the case of the forces of good and evil
I’m not so sure which it is
Or how we could possibly know
Or if it really even matters.
What matters is that the action/reaction thing
Is a dance, perhaps an endless dance,
Although in the moment it feels more a battle.
And it is a battle, for our mind, for our soul
But it’s also a dance
Since it seems the two forces
Are inextricably bound.
And when couples dance,
Even those temporarily at odds,
At some point the dance itself,
And more fundamentally, the music, holds sway.
And in that moment they are no longer two,
Not two that have reunited as one from being two,
But two that are, and always have been, simply
Not two.
(11/3/25)