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Pandemic-Climate Recovery Teams

In Colchester, CT, and possibly in your town too, we have a LongTerm ReCoVery Committee looking at 20/20 prevision for post-pandemic climate health revisions for wealthy local and global EarthJustice. So, what have I noticed that might be economically and ecologically win/win useful? In a post-pandemic post-Trump StraightWhitePatriarchal-capitalist cabal, post-BusinessAsUsual monoculturing economic climates of All-Or-Nothing Either-Or Win-Lose competitive health-care, We over-value fundamentally left-brain privileged subconscious and/or unconscious bipolar Lose-Lose absolutist supremacist xenophobic anthropocentric slimates; For sorta virally nasty primates and for our actively curious win/win compassionate engaged allies restorative justice and peace mediators co-invested witnesses co-empathic cooperative co-mentors For political, ecological, and possibly even win/win systematic theological, mutual and eco-spiritual, physical and metaphysical, compassionate verbal and non-verbal therapeutic mediating communication systems at our local bioregional level. 1. Our natural and internationally commodified food distribution systems are less cost/effectively efficient and less environmentally friendly than old-fashioned local cooperative gardens and family farms organically planned and community implemented to deliver fresh locally grown cooperatively-owned, produced and privately and commercial-publicly` health and wellness wealth consumed. 2. Chronically stressed by social-polarized politically and economically divesting unraveling distancing, human nature looks for more multicultural ways to reconnect with nearby domestic win/win healthy and safer Animated Natures. I have neighbors who had to take a number to adopt a rescued dog. I have neighbors whose household income is so reduced they could afford to continue pet health care cooperative consumer-owned insurance payments if a local vet petcare network with sliding fee and volunteer time-equity payment plans were available. I suddenly have a lot of neighbors who are way more cooperatively invested in the win/win companionship of their healthy non-mask wearing dogs and cats than they are in masked or unmasked me. [Which is OK because I've found myself reduced more recently seduced by the sexiness of a MotherTree standing starkly now this autumn in Her scandalous scaled unmasked unleafed vulnerable transparently communicating nudity.] 3. I was waiting at least six feet apart in the Goodwill line eighteen miles outside Colchester remembering a mom who is also an Economic Development Commissioner observing that Colchester lacks clothing and household goods retail because we are a population under-scaled, not yet over-infested with win/lose big-box retailed bought-and-sold corporate monocultural capitalist economic systems overpowering cooperative networks. And I'm remembering all the consumer fun I had, when my kids were still children, shopping in good-used consignment shops; a more suburban version of Goodwill cooperative-urban. Then I remembered Colchester, a new location to me moved in during this pandemic, is quietly rural and village bedroom community, where sweaters under and over my arms wait to travel with me to our new home; These may well have come from Colchester to Norwich, waiting to travel back again. I wonder what it would be like to have local clothing and household goods shopping options while riding bike to a local CoOp and ConSignment Shop Where good used stuff is further discounted for CoOp consumers and re-salers, owner co-managers include a multicultural/disabilities human resource savvy LongTerm Win/Win RePurposing Team. 4. I also noticed I have become so horribly contained by our national and international addiction to win/lose partisan debates and vicious circle entertainments and mutually antagonistic economically viscous capitalistic political assumptions I forget Earth's more Whole EcoSystemic Win/Win regenerative economics politically empowering, cooperatively mediating, mentoring long-term restorative resilient regeneration Through Her long-term climate of health/wealth-care cooperative wellness trends. I've been listening to local candidates for democratically healthy leadership positions, Noticing how many are attorneys, trained well by and for an adversarial self-advertising debate left-brain dominant punishing win/lose competitions in eco-political non-communicating non-virtuously imprisoning partisan debate Rather than discussing long-term reconnecting peace opportunities for local/global ego/eco-compassionate co-investment. I also remember one of many recent zooming conversations I've tried not to have since Marching 20/20 Listening to an attorney retrained by win/win-seeking restorative justice mediating therapeutic process progressively mentoring more of a deep listening multiculturally intelligent bicamerally balancing good secular/sacred, ecological/theological/neurological Interfaith news re-ligioning eco-political compassionate communication for cooperatively empowering community developing health/wealth-care systems And collaboratively enlightening wealth/health care EarthJustice local/global poli/economic polypathic win/win cooperative network development. Colchester must already include attorneys and public/private health-care financial investors and business LeftBrain dominant win/lose non-fundamentalistic moderators, more win/win evangelizers, mentors anticipating other multiculturally ecosystemic thinkers and collaborative feelers, deductive/inductive balanced teachers and parents, preachers and win/lose penitents capable of 20/20 envisioning/revisioning win/win compassionate communication For healthier and wealthier resilient, indigenously and multiculturally resonant, [post-pandemic lose/lose, post-win/lose anti-ecologically misanthropocentric risks] For post-pandemic climate health For Long-term democratic wealth-care. .

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