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Father Time's InterviewHi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?
False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...
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Categories:
operative, allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Why LifeWhy does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of gift-it-forward light,
some longer,
some shorter
before naked covered night.
Why life?
To uncover...
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Categories:
operative, adventure, earth, earth day, farm, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Father Time's Surprising Taoist IntimationsTell me,
Father Time,
if you would share this space
it would mean everything to me
to us, so kind,
which forms of integrative diversity
incarnate your highest priority,
most comprehensive,
social-political-economic-cultural issues:
1. Domestic economy flat-line trends,
2. International peace intent and praxis,
3. Universally...
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Categories:
operative, analogy, culture, earth, games, humor, psychological, time,
Form:
Narrative
Hellfire On EarthDear Donald John
and GoodFaith Followers,
CoInvestors,
ProActive Prayers for Rapturous Redemption
from Eternal Hellish
paranoid
Left EgoVoices anger and fear
Right SpiritFeelings ecodarkly terrified
from and of dying death.
Your LeftBrain does not lack
for paranoid Win/Lose conviction
We must live in a dog eat...
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Categories:
operative, appreciation, bullying, caregiving, games, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Feeling BetterSystems,
ecosystems,
and ego body-systems,
patriotic systems
and feminist systems
mutually improve,
grow more robust,
resilient,
resonant when WinWin relationships
between diversely paradigmatic elements
within said system
and between unsaid systems
improve,
grow more healthy wealth together
well-greased co-operative channels
and web-structures
WinWin overwhelming WinLose
competing smaller self-centered investments.
Capital small-self promotion tends...
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Categories:
operative, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Professor Glory's Active HopeThe title of this talk today,
"Win-Win Politics of New Feminist Economics"
suggests questions,
more than emasculating
definitively deductive
reductive
answers.
Would you imagine
a minority-identified Buddhist,
more likely as a feminist
or culturally comfortable
with political and economic Left-brain domination,
monopolistic competing toward total self-consuming
reiteratively...
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Categories:
operative, creation, culture, deep, environment, feelings, love, political,
Form:
Narrative
Climates of Ballistic ManagementSenator Fuller,
a permaculture designer
turned architect of exterior landscapes
then public sector architect
of EarthShip cooperative interior landscapes,
is with us today
to tell us about why he supports Sanders,
at this point in time,
although he is making no commitments about...
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Categories:
operative, destiny, earth, health, humor, peace, political, true
Form:
Prose Poetry
Transparent ExodusImagine we live in an eco-normative story
of competing for wealth-commodities,
cash piled in quantifiable currencies,
collectively blinded to our Win-Win
natural economic,
ecological,
psychological,
biological health and well-being
nurturing value roots.
One day, our PolyCultural Received View
unveils a co-operatively synergetic evolution
of...
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Categories:
operative, earth, environment, philosophy, political, psychological, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
A Few Years Back and ForthA few years back,
in the prior millennium,
1993 to be more precise
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
born without a stage name
had his book entitled "The Evolving Self" published,
by which he meant The ReGeneratively Nutritious Flowing Self,
but he was probably shy...
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Categories:
operative, beauty, earth, health, political, psychological, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Perennial ProblemsI suppose you might have missed out on Paul Feyerabend's,
and especially Thomas Kuhn's Problem of Incommensurabiity.
Oh, not at all.
I have not looked at science or culture
or language
or even your attempts at communication
quite the same since...
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Categories:
operative, culture, history, humor, philosophy, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
New BeginningsToday we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic
of Synergetic Steerage.
"We have a[n intuited, autonomic systemic] need to stay in contact with people with whom we share...
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Categories:
operative, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, relationship, religion, science,
Form:
Narrative
Translation of 'The Story' By Kama NasserThe Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story that comes from the world of tents.
It is a story...
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Categories:
operative, arabic, betrayal, christian, conflict, courage, devotion, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Out For a SpinI take a four-fold spin
through Bill Plotkin's wheel
of bilateral identities,
iconic developmental faces,
ironic personalities.
FIRST comes Eastern-born
dawn of human infancy,
Innocent Sage infants
so WiseElder
in our LeftBrain emergent
wrinkling unfolding
sacred RightBrain ways.
Searching for care giving eyes
to be sure we...
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Categories:
operative, gender, health, humor, integrity, nature, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Resonating Rightbrain PoliticsSays Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe a dialectical motion
between [Yang-ego-form] differentiation
and [Yin-eco-logical function] integration,
between turning attention...
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Categories:
operative, beauty, environment, health, political, psychological, religion, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Ecocitizens CoariseEcoMinisters of Earth Rights
CoArise!
EcoLogicians of sustainable tribal might
CoArise!
EcoLegislators of bicameral balancing disposition
CoArise!
What is our highest and best Commons Sense
of currently elected policy-choosers?
Where are our optimal outcomes of Commons Sense?
What does this vast emptiness of positive...
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Categories:
operative, addiction, community, creation, culture, health, political, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Terrorist Deserts Into Bountiful RiversI'm continuing to read Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
although now with Antonio Damasio's "Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the [WinWin Creolizing-Bilateral] Conscious Brain."
Right now,
Dr. Gordon is discussing various academic attempts,
and some of them actual...
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Categories:
operative, africa, body, culture, health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Noneastern Family PoliticsI began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find we start off with similar questions
of...
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Categories:
operative, culture, health, power, , literature, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
What Daddy DemandsEarthMama Invites
Without RightDaddy Dominance,
Left EcoMama
and Her still innocent suppressed Children,
share no opposing WinLose
assuming
internalized voices,
just anxious and angry
and fearful feelings
about LoseLose
ZeroZone,
ego and Earth
matriarchal-line
extinguished.
Because all RightBrain feeling voices
and chemistries
are outside Sacred NatureSpirit
experientially
regeneratively
cooperative
Patriarchal/Matriarchal Voices
secular and sacred...
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Categories:
operative, bullying, caregiving, gender, health, integrity, love, violence,
Form:
Political Verse
Engaging the Family LaundryPerhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.
That disclaimer said,
I have two incomplete conversations
in mind and heart
and what I...
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Categories:
operative, culture, destiny, games, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
The Climatic CollaboratoryI don't recall whose inspired idea it wasn't
to invite the math professor
into our Therapeutic Collaborative Laboratory.
I do recall when I first heard her speak
of cooperative polynomial qualities
for improving ego/eco-therapeutic communications.
She was, of course,
in the back...
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Categories:
operative, culture, earth, education, environment, health, humor, math,
Form:
Political Verse
Multicolored HousesI find multicultural capital investment
socially healthier
politically wealthier
than more win/lose capital competitions.
Sociologists
may call this deep social communication capital,
so why don't natural scientists
discover naturally cooperative capital investments
is a long-winded way
of winding around
recognizing
and appreciating,
not depreciating,
multiculturing health power?
With...
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Categories:
operative, health, integrity, passion, peace, political, power, presidents
Form:
Political Verse
Continuous Quality Improvement"It [Communion] is the liberating experience of the Authentic Self recognizing itself in others--the many coming together as One in egoless freedom and the mutual conscious intention to evolve."...
"It [Evolutionary Enlightenment] is a new and...
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Categories:
operative, analogy, beauty, destiny, miracle, nature, science, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Cooperative Pirate SchoolStudents conservative of body-health care
invest as necessary
in bowing and submitting subservience
to orthodox heterosexual vampirate mentors,
fundamentalist badnews evangelicals
sucking on pre-meditated rapture
of Heavenly bloodsucking EarthNatures.
To meet conservative RightWing
LeftBrain patriarchal
student membership classroom requirements
of monoculturing monopolistic
indoor health-safety classrooms,
research...
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Categories:
operative, care, education, green, health, heaven, school, society,
Form:
Political Verse
War of WorldviewsYangLeft: Those still capable of right thinking,
as our more civil
humane reflections
on bilateral political
and economic investment inflection,
sometimes cooperative
and democratically co-invested,
but usually just BusinessAsUsual
life remains a win/lose infested
compromising
ZeroSum political disempowering game
deflection.
YintegrityRight: Sweety,
thanks for honorable...
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Categories:
operative, analogy, caregiving, earth, health, integrity, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Liberal Operatic LoversWhat cooperative evidence
could we final climate find
for WinWin cooperation lovers
including LeftBrain secular humanities
inviting no more or less valueflow
than RightBrain WiseElder root-branch dipolar etchings
neurologically ancient bipolar temporal systemic
body-branch, mind-root DNA enscriptured holonic trees,
DNA river...
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Categories:
operative, environment, happiness, health, heart, integrity, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse