Urbane History Lessons
I have a hardbound copy of
"The City of Hartford 1784-1984"
although most of this coffee table story
of unfortunate events
takes place between 1850 and 1950s,
before and after the UnCivil War,
and,
like the U.S. Catholic Church
and many MainLine Protestant WiseElder headcounts,
reaching peak population
during the 1950s,
followed by a slow declining landscape
of pathological degenerativity.
Numbers stand out.
The still published Hartford Courant
began as a weekly Connecticut Courant
in 1764.
In 1938
a hurricane brought us 7.4 million dollars in damages
and 4,000 homeless human lives,
not necessarily in that reported order
of moral priority.
This was the first hurricane in 123 years.
But, our history book back in 1815 records,
nor rewards,
no damages or homeless or lost lives
from hurricanes or otherwise.
No lives that mattered
on this timeline.
Between 1850 and 1900
"Fires and Catastrophes"
result in loss of 53 lives,
about ten per decade,
one per year,
and $1,190,000 in lost property values;
about $220,000 per decade.
These same numbers during the subsequent fifty years,
from 1900 through 1950,
are 216 dead,
a 400% increase in the wrong direction,
primarily due to a Ringling Brothers Circus Fire,
which does not report
any loss of elephants
or lions
and tigers
and bears,
much less wicked monkeys.
Damages grow from the previous century's total
just over one million,
to over $11 million
between 1900-1950;
about $2,200,000 per decade--
a ten-fold mean depression in prosperity.
In 1956
the burning of St. Joseph Cathedral
and St. Patrick's Church
quickly add another $5,250,000,
bringing us to about $16.5 million burned
and otherwise catastrophied away.
With growing human population values
and investment in our healthy infrastructure
technology and buildings,
transportation and entertainments,
comes greater risks and costs
for sustaining healthy educated lives,
quickly escalating challenges for resilient goals
of healthy-wealthy loves,
theological grace
and ecological karma.
Lives authentically and universally pro-sacred life,
not merely secularized anthropogentric
and extractively commodified
and deductively reduced to a less demanding moral standard
of merely tolerating LoseLose abortions,
fires,
catastrophies,
totalitarian sociopathologies,
retributive punishments
of divinely inhumane climate pathology.
To grow in pro-life extending communities
is to develop restorative healing
born matriotic of
and for
resilient health
and resonantly distributed WinWin buoyant wealth,
sustainability of nutritious
nurturing Yang with Yin co-arising climates,
both healthy interior
and exterior wealth-regenerate landscapes.
Restoring resilient peace
is hampered by punishing
and suppressing symptoms,
eliminating histories of social anti-life wounds,
aborting darker NegativEnergy subpersonalities.
Healing lack of wholeness,
horizontal ego restoration
bred and fed across extending family regenerations of leveling time,
And vertical economic-above
and ecological-within
WinWin wholeness
reweaving ZeroZone Prime Relationships
within Matriotic Earth DeepSoul,
listening
with Patriotic SunGod NatureWest-SpiritEast Yang
bilaterally resilient daily
weekly
monthly
annually perennial compassion.
Resiliently, resonantly loving
synergetic grace-karma
in-between ego wholeness journeys
and rebuilding pro-life environmental
family enhancements,
eco-sacred WiseElder supportive listening
learning to speak in polycultures,
polyphonically meta-paradigmatic--
like colored facets of a rainbow.
Polyculturing resilient outcomes
for individuals,
and neighborhoods fading without healthy
mature
WiseElder multicultural resonance,
yin-Earthshade away
without wealthy YangLeft-SunLight
resonantly healing communities.
Reducing climate fires and catastrophies
asks more than communities
with passively cooperative co-invested theo/ecoLogical Education
for resonant secular/sacred politics
advocating cooperatively-owned democratic economics,
spiritually-naturally healthy dipolar cultures,
CreationStories
featuring nutritious food production and local organic consumption,
energy democracy regeneration,
absorbing more pro-life wealth resilience protection.
We also need family and
neighborhood-embedded mentors
teaching-listening ego-health development
through our movement and song,
not mere words lacking experiential depth
through humaneLeft-divineElderRight
WiseElder wealth resilience.
Resonant universal pro-life communities
emerge RightBrain cooperative protection,
nurturing vital multicultures
felt as healthy polycultural learning environments.
Resilient community histories
seek resonant family futures
active Left-Right balancing adults,
WiseElder potentials
for WinWin nurture,
cooperatively secular/sacred nondually re-educating
initiate listening with next deep learning generations
eager to revitalize
sacred, yet also deductively secular,
polycultural nutrition practices.
Healthy children still seek other PositivEnergy democratic mentors,
friends,
allies economically Left
and aesthetically Right
sociopolitically Left with Right,
Left naturally embodied
Right spiritually WiseElder
PermaCultural mind consciousness.
Resilient communities and cultures
grow resonant individual mindbodies,
bilaterally conscious co-investors,
ZeroZone self-identified WinWin persons,
whether individual or incorporated conglomerations,
EgoCenters,
WinWin EarthGaia Souls
understory songs and dances
revolving resonant WinWin SunGod Yang
Revolutioning Spirits
redeeming
restoring
reweaving
therapeutic WinWin resonance.
Resiliently self-organizing communities
individuals
families
neighborhoods,
compost WinWin organic subsystems
capable of local cooperative responses
to sometimes catastrophic Tipping Point changes,
universal ego-in and eco-out systemic environments,
notLose in and notLose out
bilaterally cooperative commitments.
With glinted eye
toward 700 future regenerations,
whether in urbane GoldenRule Hartford,
or EarthTribe ZeroZones elsewhere.
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