Jubilation and Joy
...Upward through a soft patch of early Spring
If green plants and petals could only sing
Jubilation and Joy would ring out
Fleeing wintry straightjackets
I'd wave to them; they'd ...
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Categories:
restoratively, cry, flower, green, joy,
Form: Free verse
Therapeutic Justice
...Lori Gottlieb
describes mental health mediators
and dream translators
prescribing more cost-effective therapeutic questions:
Who am I?
What do I want?
What's in my natural health/spiritual we...
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Categories:
restoratively, community, culture, health, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Auspicious Nest
..."The core of knowledge is love"
Satha Sai Baba
This dark November night
in New England
has come but midway
I, not so bright,
have given in
without a fight
to insomnia.
Above the small ...
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Categories:
restoratively, health, light, love, night,
Form: Political Verse
Dancing Meditations
...Dancers
and health therapists,
meditators
and educators,
speak of an embodied
listening
and teachable "CORE."
We need,
on bad days,
and want,
on better days,
To exercise,
stretch,
fi...
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Categories:
restoratively, health, peace, philosophy, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Health Predicts Safety
...In some primordial
wandering birth-canal way,
I imagine we all experience traumatic excommunication
An internal climate PanDemonic
cerebral yet narrowly competitive
win/lose health today or ...
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Categories:
restoratively, education, health, history, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Restoring Earthhealth
..."America's health care system
is neither healthy,
caring,
nor a system."
Walter Cronkite
An organic system,
an interdependent co-governing web
of relationships between communicating subsyste...
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Categories:
restoratively, caregiving, community, conflict, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Life and Death Matters
...The presumably creative opposite of lose/lose dying
is win/win regenerative living,
The opposite of leftbrain dominant boredom
is left/right win/win co-passionate
cooperative entertainment,
in...
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Categories:
restoratively, community, creation, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Unfinished Exodus
...As Exodus tells his story,
Moses was compelled by God
and then invited,
commissioned by inside/outside Voice,
and bv voices of Israel's extended EarthTribes
to lead them through forty desert yea...
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Categories:
restoratively, christian, health, islamic, jewish,
Form: Political Verse
Empowering Passion
...In passionate psychology,
powers of proactive compassion
are generally thought of in personal
and familial
interdependently relational
perspectives.
In political science,
large-scale powers ...
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Categories:
restoratively, caregiving, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Silent Night Through Daytime Prayers
...Before presidents and attorneys got hold of it,
and back before theologians were even a glint in the Golden GodHead's eye,
Prayer, silent or verbose,
was filled with reminders and gratitude to o...
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Categories:
restoratively, health, integrity, moon, prayer,
Form: Political Verse
Earthy Empathy
...You've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love coopera...
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Categories:
restoratively, caregiving, gospel, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Paradise Speaks Integrity
...Integrity
of resilient harmony
teaches WinWin strategy,
Egos are a holonic DNA-driven health-fragment
of one interdependently living wealth ecosystem.
Integrity
invites active healthy love-s...
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Categories:
restoratively, caregiving, health, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse
Bitter Integrity
...Integrity's EarthSoul
with eyes to see
and ears to hear,
with nose to smell
and mouth to taste,
longs to exclude
spit out
purge local and global awareness
of degenerative Earth's bitter clima...
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Categories:
restoratively, bullying, caregiving, gender, health,
Form: Political Verse
Fine Print
...Public, or even familial, contracts
with predative purposes and rights given and received
move toward more transparency
So local folks
can better monitor
what's extracted from our communities
...
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Categories:
restoratively, destiny, discrimination, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Rhymes With Wealth
...Our most resonant health opportunities
appear to be
and to always have been
our most resilient harmonic wealth investments--
Absence of unnecessary
Left-nature fighting Right-spirit
cultures ...
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Categories:
restoratively, appreciation, caregiving, community, green,
Form: Political Verse
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