A.
The greatest purpose of reading is to find books
That are, almost, impossible to read;
Books with paragraphs evoking so much
Thinking on the part of the reader
That the reader's thoughts outflank
And override each page, when held in embrace.
Great books are not written
To make wealth, nor a living for the Author;
Literature is purified wind, water, food
work, play and love repaid to humanity.
Great Authors spread great wealth
To from whence it came.
Great literature is fertile spirit cast
On a state's depleted fields of human being.
Great books nourish not, invasive, artificial growths;
but reach, instead, the Earth's
evolved, human seedlings and saplings.
They challenge 'civil', domination-constructs
With natural resproutings, resucklings, resurgings:
Restorations of natural culture and soul.
The great book says:
"Find in me, your messages to humanity."
B.
True literature is marked by its piercings into the hearts,
lives and souls of its closest readers:
accomplishing, with mere written words,
some of what others do
through communal actions,
loving relationships
and family blood.
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Sep 13, 2010
Sep 3, 2010
Natural Freedom Vs. Artful Power
by L.S. Heatherly
Enter line of trees, shores of water;
open sod of earth for seed,
partake of any fruits of trusted yore;
Turn aside metal sheaths and scultured walls,
enter not artful, thick, wood-carved door.
Whom heeds the call of free humanity's life and lore is rich,
Whom deeds the will to imprisoned, type-set word is poor.
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Enter line of trees, shores of water;
open sod of earth for seed,
partake of any fruits of trusted yore;
Turn aside metal sheaths and scultured walls,
enter not artful, thick, wood-carved door.
Whom heeds the call of free humanity's life and lore is rich,
Whom deeds the will to imprisoned, type-set word is poor.
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Aug 22, 2010
Art Selection
by L. S. Heatherly
What artist should be trusted
to select a group of creations for any original, human being?
Rather, listen to Emerson:
"Trust yourself; every heart vibrates to that iron string."
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What artist should be trusted
to select a group of creations for any original, human being?
Rather, listen to Emerson:
"Trust yourself; every heart vibrates to that iron string."
. . . Creative Commons
Aug 14, 2010
Awe, Soul and Art
by L. S. Heatherly
One should never hesitate to express awe
At the true gems of any living writer.
The greatest ones are never in danger
Of hearing such praise too often;
As they are always ahead of, outside of,
Dwelling deeper than, their Time and Age;
They are in great and lonely need,
Of such soul-arms around the soul-shoulders,
Of their refuged and besieged humanity.
They slowing burn your offerings;
Tend your kindlings into their night of the soul;
You keep their isolated flame,
In their solitary, human camp,
From dying midst winter-storms of civilization.
Your awe at their labor of love,
Is destination for their journey of joy.
Of their refuged and besieged humanity.
They slowing burn your offerings;
Tend your kindlings into their night of the soul;
You keep their isolated flame,
In their solitary, human camp,
From dying midst winter-storms of civilization.
Your awe at their labor of love,
Is destination for their journey of joy.
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The sound of your voice ends the sounds of silence;
Your message is a candle passed, a gleam of redemption.
.
2010 Creative Commons
Jul 18, 2010
Hurry Home Sonoran
The monsoon has replenished the desert with life;
Streambeds are aflowin', and life-force is ripe.
Falltime is acomin', and the air has some bite;
Daytime half-rules, and wildlife's in sight.
Won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home!
Won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home!
Mother Nature is acomin' to check all our blights;
Our Source is acallin' to divorce wrongs from rights.
Storm clouds mate sunlight, Earth's first primal rite:
The passage to meaning that gives matter life.
Won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home!
Won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home!
Instincts are arisin', to mate reason with light.
Our soul is aburnin', to re-fire our birthrights.
7/2007
Streambeds are aflowin', and life-force is ripe.
Falltime is acomin', and the air has some bite;
Daytime half-rules, and wildlife's in sight.
Won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home!
Won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home!
Mother Nature is acomin' to check all our blights;
Our Source is acallin' to divorce wrongs from rights.
Storm clouds mate sunlight, Earth's first primal rite:
The passage to meaning that gives matter life.
Won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home!
Won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home!
Instincts are arisin', to mate reason with light.
Our soul is aburnin', to re-fire our birthrights.
7/2007
Jun 19, 2010
Ecocrisis: Earth, Humanity and Childhood Dreams,
...........................................................Dave Martin/Guardian
Prologue:
Beyond Despair
Whence the child that Comes to Be?
Born to live in Land once Free!
There's more in our oceans than oily fish and birds: we float there.
Beyond despair over lost wildlife, occupations and tourism;
Look deep: our violated waters bemoan the Human Condition:
I.
Born to live in Land once Free!
There's more in our oceans than oily fish and birds: we float there.
Beyond despair over lost wildlife, occupations and tourism;
Look deep: our violated waters bemoan the Human Condition:
I.
All our pollutions of Earth
Enter our Human being's,
Gestational, amniotic fluid
Before they enter
The salty, amniotic fluid of Earth,
The origin of all Life.
.
II.
More debilitating than blindness of the eyes
Is blindness of the soul.
III.
More endangering than mind become blind
Is human culture, blind to sacred water, sky and land;
Blind to birthrights and dreams the human child.
IV.
If we cannot see Humanity, cannot see ourselves
As a threatened species, in oil-spill scenes;
We, first and foremost, are blinded by the oil in the water:
More debilitating than blindness of the eyes
Is blindness of the soul.
III.
More endangering than mind become blind
Is human culture, blind to sacred water, sky and land;
Blind to birthrights and dreams the human child.
IV.
If we cannot see Humanity, cannot see ourselves
As a threatened species, in oil-spill scenes;
We, first and foremost, are blinded by the oil in the water:
Blind to our Earth-place, our Humanity,
To child's becoming Earthly human being.
To child's bonding to source of Earthly Human Life
V.
To child's becoming Earthly human being.
To child's bonding to source of Earthly Human Life
V.
Beyond the decimation of Coast and Marine species;
Our humanity within us is becoming decimated.
Before the photos, before our Eco-disasters,
We have become the blind species upon the Earth.
Only Humanity is blinded, in heart and soul, by civilization.
VI.
Having created an anti-Nature culture, gradually for millennia;
We, then, disown its Sociocultural excretions, blaming entities,
supposedly "out there in industry and technology"-- outside
Human Will, Being and Soul.
Look within; only we, are the infidels of Earth-life, and, our Humanity.
Only we, are emergent aliens, invading Earth-Human natural treasures.
Epilogue:
Human Reality in Polluted Waters
Midst the oil and other debris in polluted waters,
If we cannot discern our grandchildren,
Even our very humanity, in that flotsam and jetsam;
We do not know what Humanity is, nor how and why it is.
Our humanity within us is becoming decimated.
Before the photos, before our Eco-disasters,
We have become the blind species upon the Earth.
Only Humanity is blinded, in heart and soul, by civilization.
VI.
Having created an anti-Nature culture, gradually for millennia;
We, then, disown its Sociocultural excretions, blaming entities,
supposedly "out there in industry and technology"-- outside
Human Will, Being and Soul.
Look within; only we, are the infidels of Earth-life, and, our Humanity.
Only we, are emergent aliens, invading Earth-Human natural treasures.
Epilogue:
Human Reality in Polluted Waters
Midst the oil and other debris in polluted waters,
If we cannot discern our grandchildren,
Even our very humanity, in that flotsam and jetsam;
We do not know what Humanity is, nor how and why it is.
L.S. Heatherly All Rights Reserved
Jun 7, 2010
Andrew Jackson, Banks and Economics
By L. S. Heatherly
Old Hickory sprang up as rich, fresh, rings of wood,
growing to stand as a specimen tree, a representative
variety of a young nation's manhood. This tree commanded to
be taken measure of by all in the young surrounding, forest.
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Hickory's seed-ideas carried by turbulent Times, blew in upon
all rooted ideas as challenge. His branches clashed against
rivals as hickory sticks striking out toward air, sunlight,
land and freedom to grow: for the legitimate part of natural,
human nature manifested in him, and, in large measure,
represented by his life.
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As seen on PBS, "Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the
Presidency" recounts the many identities of Andrew
Jackson during an Era named after him. Old Hickory,
Jackson during an Era named after him. Old Hickory,
in our Present Day, strikes home as an illustrious
champion of human rights. This assessment stems,
principally and rightfully, from his opposition to the new,
2nd US Bank's concocted powers to control credit and
create a new entity, the corporation; thereby, overly
impacting the lives of the people, and more effectively
concentrating and securing the nation's wealth in the hands
of the wealthy elite.
These new, evil seeds, mostly alien to American soil,
were sown following the War of 1812, through the
establishment of the 2nd US Bank, which created the first
corporations, on behalf of and representing, the wealthy
elite's drive for a new instrument of power. It is particularly
compelling and enlightening for us in our contemporary
moment of re-lapse into financial-economic illness, now
spread across the Industrialized nations.
It is timely refreshment to ponder, in our historical moment
of anti-congress and anti-expert fervor, how Jackson, the 1st
president with nearly no formal education, was the only man
of position, in his Time, to behold the phophetic vision of
the newly emerging financial-economic threats. These
principally and rightfully, from his opposition to the new,
2nd US Bank's concocted powers to control credit and
create a new entity, the corporation; thereby, overly
impacting the lives of the people, and more effectively
concentrating and securing the nation's wealth in the hands
of the wealthy elite.
These new, evil seeds, mostly alien to American soil,
were sown following the War of 1812, through the
establishment of the 2nd US Bank, which created the first
corporations, on behalf of and representing, the wealthy
elite's drive for a new instrument of power. It is particularly
compelling and enlightening for us in our contemporary
moment of re-lapse into financial-economic illness, now
spread across the Industrialized nations.
It is timely refreshment to ponder, in our historical moment
of anti-congress and anti-expert fervor, how Jackson, the 1st
president with nearly no formal education, was the only man
of position, in his Time, to behold the phophetic vision of
the newly emerging financial-economic threats. These
threats unfolded, through subsequent Times, as an invasion
plundering the people's democratic rights, well-being and
pursuit of happiness.
Jackson's education via rural life experiences (in our
urbanized Time called "street-smarts") reinforces the
proposition that deep breakthrough vision, concerning
human well-being, can only come from those largely free
of, or broken free from, the corruptions of formal education.
Through his self-directed education and his long battle
Jackson's education via rural life experiences (in our
urbanized Time called "street-smarts") reinforces the
proposition that deep breakthrough vision, concerning
human well-being, can only come from those largely free
of, or broken free from, the corruptions of formal education.
Through his self-directed education and his long battle
against the illegitimate power of banks and corporations
to manifest new oppressions upon the people's lives,
Andrew Jackson stands in the company of such other self-
to manifest new oppressions upon the people's lives,
Andrew Jackson stands in the company of such other self-
educated, iconic thinkers as Thomas Paine, Washington,
Lincoln and J. J. Rousseau, the father of philosophical
romanticism. Rouseau's philosophy would come to play a
role in the ideological constitution of our founding fathers.
If Old Hickory's vision had fully won the Day and Era, had
it become more fully fruited into the financial world, his
vision, springing from a Nature-based rebellion, would
If Old Hickory's vision had fully won the Day and Era, had
it become more fully fruited into the financial world, his
vision, springing from a Nature-based rebellion, would
have secured what, otherwise, tragically passed away:
some financial-economic blessings of freedom, of, by,
and for, the people and posterity.
With the fruit of that vision, re-planted and re-harvested
faithfully by each generation; we would not be witnessing
the Gulf Coast's ecological, economic disaster. If our
economic liberties fought for by Jackson were intact, we
would not be bearing this disaster, a disaster begging to
be truly defined as a disaster brought to bear upon one
nation's very spirit, one nation's very humanity, one nation's
very soul.
With the fruit of that vision, re-planted and re-harvested
faithfully by each generation; we would not be witnessing
the Gulf Coast's ecological, economic disaster. If our
economic liberties fought for by Jackson were intact, we
would not be bearing this disaster, a disaster begging to
be truly defined as a disaster brought to bear upon one
nation's very spirit, one nation's very humanity, one nation's
very soul.
2010 All rights reserved
May 28, 2010
The Human Environmental Movement
(Penan natives blockade logging road, 1990's)
"I feel deep shame when I look into the eyes of my grandchildren and think
how much damage has been done to planet Earth." -- Jane Goodall Time Aug 18, 2002
We need to become proactive in our quest to save
ecosystems from destruction, saving, as well, their wildlife
species from the progressing extinctions witnessed within Earth's environment!
We need a rooted movement to restore and conserve
human wildlife -- our human naturality, the natural human condition,
evolved within the wild Earth-life, called wilderness or the wild.
The onus of the Environmental Movement must be shifted
into our inner selves, into the constituent makeup of our human
being, spirit, mind, heart, soul, consciousness, perception,
intelligence, families, communties, culture and life way.
We need a Human Renaturalization Movement, the only
pathway back into our original, evolved, natural nature-
human relationship. This movement must enable the people
to become renaturalized and gather together to reclaim from
their bought-off representatives the sustainability, well-being
and fate of Earth's humanity and all of Earth's ecosystems-
habitats.
Without this movement into the restoration and
conservation of Earth's human wildlife-- unpolluted human
perception, mind, consciousness, community, culture and
lifeway; we are doomed to remain victims trapped in a
reactive mode, reacting to the diverse pollutions of humanity.
Civilization's manifold pollutions of childhood's mind,
consciousness, spirit, being, self, life and world are
the original and generating source of adulthood's
pollutions of Earth's evolved, natural environment as well as
their bought-off representatives the sustainability, well-being
and fate of Earth's humanity and all of Earth's ecosystems-
habitats.
Without this movement into the restoration and
conservation of Earth's human wildlife-- unpolluted human
perception, mind, consciousness, community, culture and
lifeway; we are doomed to remain victims trapped in a
reactive mode, reacting to the diverse pollutions of humanity.
Civilization's manifold pollutions of childhood's mind,
consciousness, spirit, being, self, life and world are
the original and generating source of adulthood's
pollutions of Earth's evolved, natural environment as well as
our pollutions and fragmentations of organic eco-families and
eco-communities.
The pollutions of our children develop the invasive,
alien, behavioral patterns of corporations and governments:
develop the anti-nature and anti-human nature doctrines
and enterprises of our science and education, paving
the human pathway into corporate and govermental
destructions piercing all life within Earth-life-world.
The source of the ongoing destructions of all the pristine,
beauties and treasures of life out there is the ongoing
destruction of the pristine, beauties and treasures within us.
The random destruction of Earth's natural environment
springs from the precise destruction of Her evolved,
natural human nature, being, consciousness, perception,
intelligence, her ecological families, communtities, culture and
The pollutions of our children develop the invasive,
alien, behavioral patterns of corporations and governments:
develop the anti-nature and anti-human nature doctrines
and enterprises of our science and education, paving
the human pathway into corporate and govermental
destructions piercing all life within Earth-life-world.
The source of the ongoing destructions of all the pristine,
beauties and treasures of life out there is the ongoing
destruction of the pristine, beauties and treasures within us.
The random destruction of Earth's natural environment
springs from the precise destruction of Her evolved,
natural human nature, being, consciousness, perception,
intelligence, her ecological families, communtities, culture and
lifeway.
We have known for decades that adult behaviors and
enterprises are determined primarily during early childhood
and, secondarily, during the remaining years of youth. To
change what adults are doing out there in "the natural
environment;" we must change what they (we) are doing to
the natural environment within human perceptions,
senses, minds, hearts, souls, lives, consciousness and
culture.
By choosing proaction over reaction, we commence
restoring and conserving the unpolluted, naturality of our
children. We move toward staging an ongoing rebellion
against the artificialization of childhood development being
waged by the commercialism, corporatism and sci-
technologism of power and profit seeking enterprises of
every stripe, imaginable and creatable.
The people of the Earth must reclaim the natural, human
environment within themselves, before they can reclaim
the natural environment "out there."
The destruction of the human environment within us
is the generating source of the destruction of the nonhuman,
natural environment "outside us."
It is non-natural human minds, hearts and souls that are
creating non-natural environments for both humanity and
all Earth-life.
To save Humanity and Earth-life, we must clean up, restore
and liberate our children, via our childhood.
To redeem our lost humanity, we must restore natural,
human nurturing within the context of natural
ecosystems. Human re-naturalization is human
re-nurturaliztion.
To love our children is to uncage them; to return them
to Earth's natural relationships with natural family,
community, and ecosystem.
Modern, commercial, materialistic science is blind to our
human nurturome, which receives the new-born human
organism and its genome. Young parents must behold the
reality of our nurturome; and form a movement to restore it.
Materialistic science rejects it; the people must embrace it.
Our arrogant, Modern thinking has tried everything else;
and will continue to try more and new everything elses:
everything but the oldest solution and medicine (and what
every good shaman primordially knew), restoring the union
of Earth's human nature with Earth's living nature.
The fate of our human species lies in the deep, instinctive
hands and hearts of parents and eco-communities; not in
formal, commercialized, corporatized education.
The human journey has, for eons, been led by
the manifold forms of love, springing from pure,
unpolluted, parental love, growing outward and upward
into Earth-life's pure, unpolluted, human eco-families and
eco-communities, cradled in Earth-life.
Copyright 2010 L.S. Heatherly
We have known for decades that adult behaviors and
enterprises are determined primarily during early childhood
and, secondarily, during the remaining years of youth. To
change what adults are doing out there in "the natural
environment;" we must change what they (we) are doing to
the natural environment within human perceptions,
senses, minds, hearts, souls, lives, consciousness and
culture.
By choosing proaction over reaction, we commence
restoring and conserving the unpolluted, naturality of our
children. We move toward staging an ongoing rebellion
against the artificialization of childhood development being
waged by the commercialism, corporatism and sci-
technologism of power and profit seeking enterprises of
every stripe, imaginable and creatable.
The people of the Earth must reclaim the natural, human
environment within themselves, before they can reclaim
the natural environment "out there."
The destruction of the human environment within us
is the generating source of the destruction of the nonhuman,
natural environment "outside us."
It is non-natural human minds, hearts and souls that are
creating non-natural environments for both humanity and
all Earth-life.
To save Humanity and Earth-life, we must clean up, restore
and liberate our children, via our childhood.
To redeem our lost humanity, we must restore natural,
human nurturing within the context of natural
ecosystems. Human re-naturalization is human
re-nurturaliztion.
To love our children is to uncage them; to return them
to Earth's natural relationships with natural family,
community, and ecosystem.
Modern, commercial, materialistic science is blind to our
human nurturome, which receives the new-born human
organism and its genome. Young parents must behold the
reality of our nurturome; and form a movement to restore it.
Materialistic science rejects it; the people must embrace it.
Our arrogant, Modern thinking has tried everything else;
and will continue to try more and new everything elses:
everything but the oldest solution and medicine (and what
every good shaman primordially knew), restoring the union
of Earth's human nature with Earth's living nature.
The fate of our human species lies in the deep, instinctive
hands and hearts of parents and eco-communities; not in
formal, commercialized, corporatized education.
The human journey has, for eons, been led by
the manifold forms of love, springing from pure,
unpolluted, parental love, growing outward and upward
into Earth-life's pure, unpolluted, human eco-families and
eco-communities, cradled in Earth-life.
Copyright 2010 L.S. Heatherly
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