Judging V Mediating
...Judging v Mediating,
like Teaching v Mentoring,
like Win/Lose Retributive Motives v Win/Win Restorative Motivators
like dogmatic Preaching v compassionately Communicating,
As felt
and apprecia...
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Categories:
optimizers, community, culture, earth, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Racist Systems
...Systemic racism
is a social/cultural pattern
of racial prejudice
originating within individuals
and their anecdotal experiences
and lack of multiculturally enriching discernment
Shedding ligh...
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Categories:
optimizers, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Unsappy Happy Talk
...I said to my son,
He said back to me,
To be honest with us,
I'm worried
We want to be happy
while bypassing disciplines of left-brain healthy
is not too right-brain cooperatively sappy.
Bu...
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Categories:
optimizers, analogy, caregiving, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
An Invitation Toward Healthcare
...I would like to invite you
to participate in a cooperative interview
with other local health-optimizers.
Our healthcare optimization plans
will open our conversation
to moving from current Win...
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Categories:
optimizers, deep, earth, education, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Couples Counseling
...My early 20s Eldest Black Lives Matter Son
wears his disabling ADHD label uncomfortably,
impatiently,
like a possibly self-redeeming crown
but with unfortunate MessiahComplex thorns
as the Great...
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Categories:
optimizers, earth, games, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
A Feel For History
...Are people who sense a direction in history,
and before history,
throughout prehistory,
who feel their way through organic-systemic evolution,
merely progressive polypathic mystics,
not quite ex...
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Categories:
optimizers, health, history, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
The Postelection Survey
...This is not really a test.
More of a survey,
so there are no right or left answers.
Did you mean to say
Answers are both right and wrong?
Yes.
Isn't that what I said?
Not quite, but go a...
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Categories:
optimizers, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Extending Families
...What if all your communities of choice
were to gather around you
to also become each others' communities,
extended families,
of choice?
Homeless children and mothers
decompose their social-ec...
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Categories:
optimizers, blessing, change, community, culture,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Revolutionary Story
...They called their gang The ReVolutionaries,
my Father Sun and Mother Earth drew time with them,
but they often called themselves Yang and Yin,
respectively and mutually respectful
yet privately e...
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Categories:
optimizers, health, humor, joy, life,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
UnWatering Trumpian Terror
...I'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love powers
over competing fears
about scarcity of healthy time,
and other resources
for evacuating anger
about past over- and under-valuing of ...
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Categories:
optimizers, anger, destiny, fear, hate,
Form: Political Verse
Welcoming Womb
...Hello!
Hello in there?
Can you feel me yet?...
Welcome to the United States of America!
The U-nited States began as an incubation site
for humane freedom and justice,
although our elders we...
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Categories:
optimizers, culture, peace, political,
Form: Political Verse