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Premium Member Games We Play
Yang, dear.

Yes, my lovely Yin.

Why do you map Game Theory
onto EcoFeminist Political Theory?
It comes across as either just confusing
or, even worse,
vaguely sexist.

Really!
How sexist?

Well you seem to associate competitive ZeroSum WinLose
with strong aggressive patriarchal effectiveness
for defending...

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Categories: understories, birth, games, gender, health, history, humor,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Miracle of Hypocrisy
I was listening to Cornell West,
who described our catastrophic tolerance of disvalues for others,
situations we would never tolerate for ourselves,
disvalues like homelessness and hunger,
but also like random violence, 
abuse and neglect,
lack of caring,
as a "conspiracy"...

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Categories: understories, abuse, culture, earth, integrity, nature, psychological,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Earth's Final Answer
A society
culture
religion
humane species
forgetting,
or more likely under-valuing,
how to unitedly suffer loss
may never have learned to face our universal fear 
of dissociative ego-death
as a badge of Earth-systemic re-cognition,
dignity through suffering 
sacred Ego's over-capitalized absence
where once we knew...

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Categories: understories, beauty, earth day, health, humor, love, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Noneastern Family Politics
I 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: understories, culture, health, power, , literature, , western,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member What Daddy Demands
EarthMama 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: understories, bullying, caregiving, gender, health, integrity, love, violence,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Cooperative Evolutionary Analysis
I'm sure it was Rob Brezsny, again,
who first pointed out to me
that Western psychoanalysts give priority to pathologies within family relationships,
while Eastern analysts, more embedded in philosophies of interdependence,
begin with what nurturing health dynamics we...

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Categories: understories, community, culture, earth, environment, health, love, mental
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Open Letter To Leaders
An open letter to new legislators,
new chief executive officers,
new judges,
and all new healthy climate parents and other advocates.

When you were in the process of securing this new position in your life,
and, hopefully, the lives of...

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Categories: understories, earth, environment, health, parents, political, psychological, thanksgiving,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member My Thing Is
My thing is,
Yang dear,
EarthMother
is much RNA-green older
than mammalian red-DNA Yang.

Yes,
seniority breeds long-term nutritious merit,
I remember this history lesson
from your creation by fairy tale,
how WinWin Paradise YinYin
wonder invited Yang's Patriarchal CoPresence.

Well said,
dearest,
which is exactly why EarthMother
needed...

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Categories: understories, color, earth, health, history, humanity, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Find Your Way
Find your way
from brain stemmed
seed tree infancy
of glorious humanity
history

Find your way
From correct diverse limbic resolutions
back to shared soul temporal-health 
co-acclimating diverse struggling issues,
nutritionally resilient production
and root to branch to reroute transportation
and lack of wealth concentrating...

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Categories: understories, body, education, green, health, humanity, humor, tree,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Genesis of Integrity
Who died
and made God the Father
the Christian Fundamentalist Law of Cooperative Redemption?

Well, dear, that was Jesus of Nazareth,
your CoMessianic Avatar of regenerative health trends,
remember?

Right,
OK, so,
in my heroic ego-narrative,
we are the purest, most right, oldest exegetical...

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Categories: understories, america, christian, creation, earth, environment, health, pride,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Story of Health Theory
They say society's heart
is changed by story
and not by theory.

But what is history
if not also a theory about evidence
for healthy and pathological stories?
Experiences,
narratives,
parables,
analogies,
ecologies,
theologies
with active Yang EgoSubjects
and yin Eco Understories
favoring healthy WinWin ego/ecological theory

Entering the last...

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Categories: understories, earth, education, environment, history, humanity, integrity, spiritual,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Public Sector Predators
I have lately noticed
WinLose bottom-line business competitors
lead within for-profit rabidly accelerating circles
and are not thereby well prepared
to produce effective robust outcomes
in a more WinWin democratic public service role,
elected or appointed.

I have further noted
general decline of...

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Categories: understories, bullying, caregiving, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Class of 1970
When I was in my Michigan high school
I found something both promising
and sacred,
portentous with rural, yet also urbane, PositivEnergy,
in and among our graduating classes
of 1970.

Ending with mindful roundness
of Zero.
Preceded by almost octave fullness
of sacred potentiating...

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Categories: understories, age, gospel, health, high school, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member What Might Be Seen
Natural predication
greets sacred promise
to restore peaceful justice.

Omnipresent predication
greets polypathic promise
for restoring love as grace-filling justice.

Omnipotently disintegrative powers
of HellFire prediction
too quickly settle for monoculturing retribution,
punishment
due to FallenNature's past spiritual sins
in absence of paid-forward
gift economies
for notnot co-arising
Sacred...

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Categories: understories, culture, integrity, love, nature, peace, power, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Living With Deplorable Adorables
Loving With BiPolar DisOrders

I know if I say
That reeks, deplorable,
She will only be persuaded
all the more,
That is adorable.

Then I might say
I meant intolerable,
And she will insist
I remain adorable,
with a dismissive smile
toward my alien intolerance
as bigotry.

Then...

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Categories: understories, health, humor, integrity, love, mental illness, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Undead Through Full-Love Health
Here's my thing.
I wonder if Yin-UnDead,
river of Time's ebbing wave
predicts Yang-Love Health Abundant PowerWith.

No, really,
I think about that,
and I wonder if EcoReligious Universal Messiahs
could also become Bodhisattva Integral-Unitarian Occupiers,
Zero-sacred self-invested/Othering-divested PlaceHolders,
bilaterally stretching thresholds toward health-balanced...

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Categories: understories, destiny, earth, health, humanity, love, nature, universe,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Left Brains With Right Hearts
LeftBrain ego challenges
are also investments
in cooperatively struggling with RightBrain understream flow,
understories of recreative grace,
positively trending karma,
or against, trying to swim directly upstream,
competing with RightBrain's laterally co-arising flow skills of integration.

Our moment by ego/ecoconscious moment choices
are...

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Categories: understories, earth, happiness, health, heart, humanity, humor, power,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Running Away From Hibernating Ren
Why is it
as I watch The International CEO Actor
unilaterally Ordering disinvestment
in both domestic and Earth's cooperative-organic health,
I feel cold harsh January snowblow storms?

Dismaying cold
calling me toward hibernating silo of unencumbered sleep,
possibly to dream of sequestering...

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Categories: understories, culture, earth, future, health, history, humanity, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Earth's Creation Parables
Once upon successive times of
economic and political revolutions
slow-grown bionic ecosystemic balance
suddenly emerged
where form with functional health potential 
had been submerged.

When Earth
was Yang gusting wind
and surging surfing yin waters,
light's emergence each Yang sunrise
was daily revolution news
for...

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Categories: understories, allegory, caregiving, creation, earth, health, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Healthy Seeds--Wealthy Leaves
Mindbodies unfold from embryonic seed
toward full living-loving 
sense-synthesizing leaf production,
full YangPower during warm light-drenched days of summer,
Earth’s rotation fuelling healthy growth,
yet weedy monopolizing tendencies as well.

Seed unfolding is our first longing half, 
maturing toward healthy...

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Categories: understories, age, health, love, nature, political, power, tree,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Virtual Truths
Without doubt true,
     and yet too redundantly lectured,
          especially to our young of body and mind,
the virtual world is not reality.

And yet,
Elders...

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Categories: understories, culture, education, health, history, humor, internet, math,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Only Regrets
Dear Donald John,

I could be wrong
yet you're not twitterish right
in singing Earth's happiless song.

What normal healthy
Left-Right wealthy
care most about
is what you continue
not responding to

And what we do not care to hear,
to become sufficiently LeftBrain clear,
is...

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Categories: understories, anti bullying, earth, happiness, health, heaven, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Embryonic Soul
Each day an extension of my time
so each morning a risk and opportunity
to avoid greedy egocentrism
to step into harmonious eco-centered consciousness.

Each still-wombed entity extends Mother's incarnating time
so each maternal risk and opportunity,
each free will act...

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Categories: understories, birth, creation, culture, life, nature, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Great Transition
Wood sapped Energy succudancing up gnarling roots
grasping trees of life
erupt to full parasitic bloom
within millennial Great Transition
blaring autumnal winnowing of karmic stamina.

Fire brings full-flaming confidence
derived from summer's thirsty rain of seed-
recessing roots
plunging and emerging
rich deep...

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Categories: understories, autumn, change, magic, nature, philosophy, tree, truth,
Form: Free verse

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