we need to find a cure for our illness* (there’s a lot of work out there to do!)

MAKE MYSELF GREAT!
MAKE MY TRIBE GREAT!!
MAKE MY NATION GREAT!!!
MAKE WHITE NATIONALISM GREAT!!!!
MAKE AMERICA
(you know the REAL AMERICA
not …
shithole central “america”
or shithole south “america”
or shithole mexico
not …
those … indigenous
those … blacks, browns, and yellows)
MAKE AMERICA GREAT!!!!!

i am sick
we are all very sick
at a minimum psychologically
well … psychologically and ecologically …
ecologically and psychologically

severe poverty, disparity
we fat cat Haves consuming and consuming and consuming
three-plus times
70,000 Calories** per capita per day!
when many, VERY MANY
have to scratch out
barely fifteen hundred per day

destruction of …
healthy psyches
social fabrics
good, solid, healthy traditions and customs, culture
watersheds
foodsheds
individuals
populations
ecological communities
………………..

nuclear arms
packages of mass destruction
enough to destroy dynamic homeostatic symbioses
several times over

guns guns!!! Why so many guns???
biocides biocides!!! why so much biocide???
plastics plastics!!! why so much plastic???
stuff why so damn much stuff
all this durn synthetic artificial clutter
big homes big cars big business/big sports/big schools/megachurches why?
fossil energy fossil energy!!!
EMBODIED HUMAN APPROPRATED NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY!!!
enough already!

exercise machines exercise machines!?! WHY EXERCISE MACHINES???
ARE WE ILL???
…………………

We do need to find a cure for our illness

burst the bubbles …
of racism
of gender-identity-expression suppression
of neglect of the disabled, the homeless, the imprisoned
of xenophobia,
of socio-economic status
from “education” inequalities
from …
conspicuous consumption and
rampant artificialization of “nature”

tear down the walls
become borderless
remove all the barriers
even genetic and epigenetic
but especially environmental

communicate
really communicate
daily
weekly
yearly
epochally epically

make each and every one
every individual of all species
in all of the world
wholly (NOT HOLY!) great
in ecological community
in dynamic homeostatic symbioses

in …
profound and holistic humility
empathy

through …
sharing solidarity
kindness sweetness
beauty through and through

steadfast and strong in this conviction
becoming knowledgeable of ecological principles, processes, values
being wise, prudent
…………………………………
* Sylvia Manning’s prompt from Thich Naht Hahn’s Living Buddha, Living Christ, 1995. (I was raised Roman Catholic in a rural parish of mostly German/Anglo-Americans and Mexican-Americans. A number of years ago as I listened to presenters on the world’s religions at a Texas Lutheran University Krost Symposium on “World Religions” I identified most with what the Jewish scholar presented. Nevertheless, I strongly felt I should be Buddhist.)
**Kilocalories.
pbm
[ 7S’s / VV->^^ ]

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