One year ago

our hearts and minds

were socially

and politically

and economically divided

about universal health care

as a restorative prerequisite

to growing unitarian wealth

of EarthJustice

multicultural compassion.

Today

regardless of where we may find

identify

celebrate our active hope

for growing a resilient polycultural community

We feel no clear post-viral divide

between health care

and EarthTribe’s social solidarity,

No great non-transitional

separation of secular caste

or sacred calling

between social solidarity

and indigenous integrity

of interdependent healthcare;

No vast dualistic shadow

between First Egalitarian HealthPrinciples

and Seventh Interdependent WealthSystems.

Health care,

like social caring,

like politically empowering compassion,

like economically enlightened co-investment,

can never again return

to a pre-global pandemic view

of healthy democratic energy

as a strictly private

commodified

anthroprivileged self-investment

by win/lose might of fight

makes dominating right

singularly bright.

Whole Open EarthClimate Care

Ego/EcoSystems

predict healthy resilient babies

and a renewing win/win

bicamerally empowering

enlightening species

Restored from a starving

isolating angry

and fearfully monoculturing

disregard for polyculturing

health wealthy

GreatGreen Transitioning EarthMother

PostPandemically restorying

Her ravenous

and cancerously conflicted womb

of sensory

experiential

passionately universal

unitarian healthcare wisdom.

Gerald Dillenbeck is a resident of New London County, currently holed up in the Thermos on the Thames Condos in Norwich.

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