Toasting Therapeutic Trees
...I talk with indigenous treed elders;
Tell them about my distractions
divisions
severance in-between
secular and sacred beings,
between human nature and divine spirit,
between ecological relatio...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, health, integrity, love, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Red Justice But Green Peace
...HeteroSapiens have bipolar developed
miraculous capacities
to stretch and blur
legitimate moral peace initiatives
subordinate to licit legal judicial systems
Judiciously approved punishment
f...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, culture, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Christian Conversion
...I am familiar
with evangelical conversions
understood as moving away from sinner,
unredeemed heathen,
unenlightened addiction to evil,
demonically disempowered
reprobate status
moving toward r...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, caregiving, change, christian, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Fatiguing Pandemic Questions
...Why do ecologists
and theologists
and neurologists
see and hear,
touch and feel,
smell and taste
ReGenerating Trust
as Positive Communication?
And,
Why do multiculturists
disvalue active ...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, earth, environment, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Earthtribe Shadow
...Earth's universal Shadow
shades whatever Earth is not.
Ego's universal right-hemisphere Shadow
shades whatever EgoResources left is not.
What Earth's potential positive win/win
sacred integr...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, deep, faith, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Strong-Rooted Thesis
...I have been reading a rootless thesis:
Lack of commitment to a permanent home
causes depression,
over-commitment to inside claustrophobic voices,
failing deep-rooted immune systems,
obesity,
di...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, earth, environment, health, home,
Form: Political Verse
Paternal Storms
...To Husserl's phenomena,
enchanting and disenchanting
healthy and pathological
and all colors in-between,
We might remedially add relationships,
cooperative and competitive
and all hues and crie...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, birth, history, integrity, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
If You'Re Like Me
...Fear of Climate Success
If you're like me,
which probably already reduces the size of my captive audience
to Zero,
Regardless,
if we're like we used to be
when we were born
with all the po...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, childhood, green, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Competing Cooperative Archetypes
...Everyday games we play
grow productive successes
and over consuming failures.
Every day and night
we try to reduce
RightWing dominant overproduction
LeftSoul underconsumption,
Gap growing de...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, earth, games, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Life's Golden Rules
...The National Science Foundation (NSF),
in partnership with the Simons Foundation,
has launched four new incubation centers
to bring mathematical Left/Right Brain bicameral perspectives
to the...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, caregiving, culture, health, humor,
Form: Free verse
Arts and Sciences
...The Golden Rule,
like Permaculture Design,
teaches we all deserve
the restorative grace we need,
whether victim or predator of innocence
as we can each empathize
with those harmed
and with e...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, art, beauty, history, science,
Form: Political Verse
Enlightening Religions
...Religiosity is the culture-bound pretension
of religious function.
Religious is to spiritually healthy function
as religion
creed
faith system, idolatrous or divine,
is to spiritual form,
st...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, earth, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Norwick's Head Poobah
...I was interviewing the Head Poobah
of our Norwick Public Utility CoOperative
and asked him
Where did the 22 percent goal come from
for acquiring renewable energy?
As compared to 78 percent from ...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, earth, environment, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Domestic Help
...Let us,
for a heuristic historical moment,
pause...
create mental feeling embodied space,
for domestication as value neutral,
neither inherently good nor bad,
but more of a gradual evolutionary...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, community, earth, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Balancing Ecopolitical Systems
...Balanced systems normally calibrate
through double-negative dipolar feedback loops,
in which a change in one cause
incites an oppositional change in another effect,
so they balance each other out...
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Categories:
suboptimizing, games, growth, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
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