(quotes from a Paul Solomon interview, PBS News Hour, 7-28-14)
Nick Hanauer, billionaire, venture capitalist:
"A fundamental law of capitalism is, if workers don't have enough
money[, businesses, [then] don't have enough customers... "
"the average age of fast food workers is 28 years-old, earning poverty
wages; and tax payers have to make up the difference-- in the form of
more food stamps, medicaid and rent assistance."
"Ceo pay went up 1000% in the last 20 years [or something like that (30 yrs)],
and worker pay went up 5.7 %."
"this ridiculous idea that a worker on Wallstreet, securitizing imaginary assets,
or doing high-frequency trading, is worth 1000 times more than an
educator teaching our children, a worker growing our food, or workers
throwing themselves in harms way, [this huge gap in the valuation of
workers in poverty and super-rich workers] is nonsense.!"
Hanauer calls his view "middle-out" as oppsed to "trickle down" or
"bottom up" et.al. economics.
"We have run a 30-year experiment in what happens to an economy
when you structure it to benefit the few, at the expense of the many.
And I would argue that for most people that experiment hasn't gone
very well....
"Its simply nuts that we have allowed this [Plutocracy] to happen.!"
What a relief, what balm, to hear Hanauer and a small minority of
degreed experts come around to what Yours Truly has been thinking
for over 40 years!
L.S. Heatherly 2014 Creative Commons
Jul 29, 2014
Jun 30, 2014
Earth's Natural Human Society
Within the ecovillages (those surviving today or millenia ago),
the Earth-person, family and community live in an intimate
relationship, in a triecologic, organismic, psycho-social-
ontological-ecological union. This, in turn, is in an intimate
union within Earth's ecosphere.
Sharing rules as a lifeway and culture. People know what each
other are feeling and thinking, with less need for speaking.
There are no people digitally talking or digitally writing on screens.
People are in each others presence, on location in an Earth-
village or camp. Its the realest, longest-running play of humanity.
'Civilization' fragments, adulterates, and alienizes this unity of
ecological, natural human being. Civilization fosters an
unprecedented intimacy inward -- the personal bio-ego-
self with itself, with other egoselves, as well as artificial
objects and phenomena-- while disrupting the other
intimacies with family, community, and local ecosystem.
The balance of all four of these Earth-human entities-
phenomena is essential to the growth, fulfillment, and
perpetuation of human life, spirit, society and soul.
It is from this disruption and destruction of long-running,
human intimacies, loves, carings, nurturings, fulfillments,
and bequeathments that 'civilization is found to be dis-
credited, illegitimate, and transgressive.
It is this revelation (as part of a deep human revelation)
exposing 'civilization's' disruption and dysfunction of
natural, Earth-human evolved (natural) mind, heart, soul,
human being, society, all living nature and their relationships,
that frees our human life-being force away from historical,
life-force (which has violated, divorced and seperated
from our human being-force) to rebond to Earth's living
nature's life-being force and its(hers) patiently evolved
(naturally selected, ecological world (field) of balanced,
harmonious, living beings.
It is, simply, to be with Earth's living beings; or not to be.
To be an Earthly, human being; or be an artificial, invasive,
quasi, un-belonging, alienized, cyborg-being.
(edited from CH I of The Last Human Spring 2002, 2009)
All rights reserved
May 18, 2014
Margaret Velma Arellano
(pic: Margaret N of Phx) Page first posted in mid 2011.
Margaret V. Arellano was born March 6th, 1956 in S.E. Phoenix AZ to Manual
and Mary (Medina) Arellano. Her father. Manuel, was from Texas; Mary (or Mary's parents), also, from Texas. She had about 8 sisters and 2 brothers; all were raised speaking both Spanish and English.
Falling off a teeter-totter at age 8, resulted in life-long epilepsy.
Her attempts to hold a job following 3 years of college were dashed by this
With her older sisters all married, she tried marriage four times, encompassing
about a total of four-five years of married life altogether. Spurred partly by step-
about a total of four-five years of married life altogether. Spurred partly by step-
father problems, Margaret briefly married a Native American man while still
attending high school. Her three subsequent, brief husbands were white.
attending high school. Her three subsequent, brief husbands were white.
floor to meet Heatherly, on or about, July 1st 1981. (She and all but one of
her sisters favored white boys.) They both were quite smitten by the meeting.
She was released after 3 days; but he located her thru an old phone number
about a year later. Following about 3 weekly visits to her apartment, he took
a studio apartment next to her one bedroom. LS and Margaret attempted
a romantic relationship that LS left fully unconsummated for over 15 years. Factors were her marriages, 2 lingering old flames, old buddies, her nature as a tomboy, as well as Heatherly's marriage to his mission for humanity.
While living briefly in adjacent apartments, she was fresh out of a marriage,
and marriage minded; while LS, simply, sought her as a long-term, girlfriend
and sister-cousin largely missing in his childhood and adulthood development. After two months mixed with needed growth, fulfillment, as well as, frustration;he told her that their special, beautiful friendship should be saved and
cherished. And to that end, he would revert back to visiting her weekly instead
of daily. He had very quickly become her confidant. LS had become quickly popular with some of her family, attending family parties about once per month (siblings included an editor, lawyer, counselor, small business owner, police officer, et.al.). He attended a family softball game and was by acclamation, appointed pitcher owing to his accurate pitching of hit-able balls over the plate. They called him "scoop": (maybe) having the scoop on any subject!
Margaret was puzzled and frustrated by his reserve toward her; but he had grown up without a sister; hence, that was his nature with women-- he was slow with women and was never to move in with one.
She was short on communication skills. Two sisters told her: "He loves
you!". Heatherly's anthropological, psychological, sociocultural,
philosophical mind and heart had long needed affection, for and from,
a unique, special, girl like her. She added to his regeneration after earlier months
of decline in his general health and well-being. She, as well, strengthened
the ongoing, psychological-spiritual-ontological-ecological-philosophical
pathway of one original, maverick's deep, wide Earthly soul on a
"ground-breaking" literary mission for humankind's well-being and
humanity's conservation and restoration. Her heart, and soul had their
reasons, as well, for their special friendship. She sent some 90-100 cards and notes the first 7-8 years! These served as memory re-runs for LS after she was gone; along with 200 other memories.
Earnestly, LS plunged into probing and discovering the natures of this
unique young woman's mind, heart, life-world, development and soul.
Many times after the 1st year, he said "I could write a book about
this unique, struggling, triumphant, beautiful, female soul midst the
chaos called "the greatest nation on Earth."(updated description of her)
But he was carrying a long gestating book, now appoaching term.
It is no exaggeration to say that her entrance into his heart and
self-life-world (acknowledged in his book) was one key relationship
of midwifery for the deliverance of his major work, The Last Human
Spring.
of midwifery for the deliverance of his major work, The Last Human
Spring.
After about 9 months, their housing units went up for sale.
Whereupon, LS located an apartment she liked and helped her
make the move; as well as four other times in her life. Like close
cousins, (sometimes sweethearts), they continued their special friendship based on errands in his old cars and various outings once every 3 weeks for many years. Later on, 6 -12 times per year. On the fly, he took many more
pics of her than anyone in his life. The early part of this 23 year
period, entailed her last 2 brief marriages. She was a bus person;
LS a good, old car-person. Of Heatherly's few girlfriends in life
Margaret was the rooted, deepest and longest in his heart and soul.
Both he and her were not the marrying kind; and after her marriages, she
came to accept this about her life as almost innate with her handicaps.
Pics are worth 1000s of words ; (top) LS and Margeret1993 at West Clear Creek;
(mid-left): Margaret (age 12?) at sisiter's Wedding; (lower left): Margaret glows in AZ desert sunset 1989; (mid-right): N of Phx in Starlight--eyes for LS! 1988! (bottom left): Margaret in cutoffs at W. Clear Creek 2001. (lower right): L.S Heatherly and Margaret 1984 AZ St. Fair
(mid-left): Margaret (age 12?) at sisiter's Wedding; (lower left): Margaret glows in AZ desert sunset 1989; (mid-right): N of Phx in Starlight--eyes for LS! 1988! (bottom left): Margaret in cutoffs at W. Clear Creek 2001. (lower right): L.S Heatherly and Margaret 1984 AZ St. Fair
May 2, 2014
Yes Virginia! Youth, Age, Heart, Time and Home!
By L. S. Heatherly
Going back, and getting down to Earth-- our life within Her Life!
Calendar time is not the fullest measure of how old we are.
This tells us our age as measured by the mostly life-less solar system's measure!
We live on Earth, within Her systems! Not within the life-less solar system.
Calendars don't tell us the measure of a particular human being's
Length of time within Earth's living human being!
A mere measure of youth and age as Earth-solar cycles!
The truest measure is human being's passage through life and love!
Our passage is within Earth-life's eco-organismic, field of living beings--
Within a particular family, community and particular, human socio-culture.
Beyond the solar system's measure of our age--
How many trips around the Sun we have experienced--
We each have biological age, psychological, social, and spirit-ontological age.
Our bio age is how well our dying cells have been replaced with new cells.
Our psychological age is how well our mental and emotional needs have been fulfilled.
Our social age is how well our social, developmental needs have been fulfilled.
Our spiritual-ontological age is how well our heart-soul needs have been fulfilled.
People die from two primary deficiencies:
Of full, rich blood to the organs,
And of full, rich love to our eco-social, and heart-soul relationships.
Our age-- of persons, and, of our human species,
Is a family-community, living Earth-love thing!
Ah, beyond history's serial, greedy flings!
Yes, Virginia, there is a true, human heart, age,
Time, being, place and home of which to sing!
Squandered, now, we have little left of precious these.
Copyright 2014 L.S. Heatherly
Going back, and getting down to Earth-- our life within Her Life!
Calendar time is not the fullest measure of how old we are.
This tells us our age as measured by the mostly life-less solar system's measure!
We live on Earth, within Her systems! Not within the life-less solar system.
Calendars don't tell us the measure of a particular human being's
Length of time within Earth's living human being!
A mere measure of youth and age as Earth-solar cycles!
The truest measure is human being's passage through life and love!
Our passage is within Earth-life's eco-organismic, field of living beings--
Within a particular family, community and particular, human socio-culture.
Beyond the solar system's measure of our age--
How many trips around the Sun we have experienced--
We each have biological age, psychological, social, and spirit-ontological age.
Our bio age is how well our dying cells have been replaced with new cells.
Our psychological age is how well our mental and emotional needs have been fulfilled.
Our social age is how well our social, developmental needs have been fulfilled.
Our spiritual-ontological age is how well our heart-soul needs have been fulfilled.
People die from two primary deficiencies:
Of full, rich blood to the organs,
And of full, rich love to our eco-social, and heart-soul relationships.
Our age-- of persons, and, of our human species,
Is a family-community, living Earth-love thing!
Ah, beyond history's serial, greedy flings!
Yes, Virginia, there is a true, human heart, age,
Time, being, place and home of which to sing!
Squandered, now, we have little left of precious these.
Copyright 2014 L.S. Heatherly
Mar 24, 2014
Visions of Love Over Blind Power
Love is blind to the single soul possessed;
Blind to one mind-body's selfishness.
Love is our wider, deeper vision -- blessed
By, and for, the Earth-human, village nest.
Love grows fruits of love as highest wealth:
Our deep panoramic, Earth and human self!
Love nurtures all humanness and Earthlyness--
unfolding, wide, as the soul's deepest quest;
Love nourishes the manifold joys of humanity:
Not what's bought, stolen, and possessed by insanity;
Sans the greedy, selfishness of persons and elites;
Sans all the Ages and millenia of recycled fights.
Love springs forth the flowerings and fruitings
Of whole human self's, community-soul's choosings.
Ask not for whom Love may ever flower.
Peoples seek Love's seeds and friuts as showers.
Into the winds and soils of the soul,
Love sows Her joys as hearth against the cold!
Ask not why Love's visions still grow in thee;
Such does portend all hearts know being free!
Copyright 2014 L.S. Heatherly
Blind to one mind-body's selfishness.
Love is our wider, deeper vision -- blessed
By, and for, the Earth-human, village nest.
Love grows fruits of love as highest wealth:
Our deep panoramic, Earth and human self!
Love nurtures all humanness and Earthlyness--
unfolding, wide, as the soul's deepest quest;
Love nourishes the manifold joys of humanity:
Not what's bought, stolen, and possessed by insanity;
Sans the greedy, selfishness of persons and elites;
Sans all the Ages and millenia of recycled fights.
Love springs forth the flowerings and fruitings
Of whole human self's, community-soul's choosings.
Ask not for whom Love may ever flower.
Peoples seek Love's seeds and friuts as showers.
Into the winds and soils of the soul,
Love sows Her joys as hearth against the cold!
Ask not why Love's visions still grow in thee;
Such does portend all hearts know being free!
Copyright 2014 L.S. Heatherly
Feb 4, 2014
Free Play of Life
Listen, closely, to chirps and songs of birds;
To howls and moans of gathered worlves;
To suckling babes, and romping toddler kids.
Watch, closely; all freedom unfolds in spontaneity.
Growing Love is the one, and only, deity!
Here, on Life's love-play grounds;
Love flashes within Living Nature's bounds!
Feel, Earth-Human-Life-Love grow connected!
Artificial law, through this, will be rejected!
Spontaneity! Life and Love spring!
Here, inter-springing, are Spirits inter-singing!
Mourn this bliss, now, mis-decaying away.
Study, the hitch and glitch of high-tech play.
Study, our Life and Heart away!
Love's blueprints; are being s-mattered away!
Copyright L.S. Heatherly 2014
To howls and moans of gathered worlves;
To suckling babes, and romping toddler kids.
Watch, closely; all freedom unfolds in spontaneity.
Growing Love is the one, and only, deity!
Here, on Life's love-play grounds;
Love flashes within Living Nature's bounds!
Feel, Earth-Human-Life-Love grow connected!
Artificial law, through this, will be rejected!
Spontaneity! Life and Love spring!
Here, inter-springing, are Spirits inter-singing!
Mourn this bliss, now, mis-decaying away.
Study, the hitch and glitch of high-tech play.
Study, our Life and Heart away!
Love's blueprints; are being s-mattered away!
Copyright L.S. Heatherly 2014
Dec 31, 2013
Auld Lang Syne, of Soul
Deeply rooted truths, realities,
Comapassion, playings, labors, of loves:
Human commonalities are the commons of humanity,
Perennial, mostly buried, by all civilizations.
Source of all Human Revolutions against oppressions.
Not to be aware of buried, human treasure is easy:
Our primal roots and tubers
Of Earth's eco-family-community humanness!
Covered-over by the highways of personal,
Expedient, career and institutional selves.
Soul artifacts: underneath, national,
Commercial and political selves:
Underneath our intellect-egoselves'
Materialistic, diverse empires of domination.
II.
Not to join in the archaeological dig
For the organismic essences of humanity!
Not to yearn for the respringing and enculturation
Of natural, whole, human self and whole being!
To merely accept the ongoing sufferings
And inequities of the bulk of humankind!
III.
Human life (and being) is not a case
of "to be or not to be".
It is a case of where and what to be,
And how to be that whatness;
And why to be that whyness.
There in our home of human beings.
It is a case of the becoming of,
And sustainment of, human beings--
Beyond the case of mere
Human organisms remaing alive;
Beyond our brains' and bodies' growth;
Beyond health and life, of our brain-body organisms.
IV.
Our human ecosphere-habitat is our where
We journey through our human beingness,
Is where our eco-nature-human being;
Finds what to love, how to love, and why to love.
Should these grown attainments be forgot?
Or, ever be our find!
Copyright 2013 L.S. Heatherly
Comapassion, playings, labors, of loves:
Human commonalities are the commons of humanity,
Perennial, mostly buried, by all civilizations.
Source of all Human Revolutions against oppressions.
Not to be aware of buried, human treasure is easy:
Our primal roots and tubers
Of Earth's eco-family-community humanness!
Covered-over by the highways of personal,
Expedient, career and institutional selves.
Soul artifacts: underneath, national,
Commercial and political selves:
Underneath our intellect-egoselves'
Materialistic, diverse empires of domination.
II.
Not to join in the archaeological dig
For the organismic essences of humanity!
Not to yearn for the respringing and enculturation
Of natural, whole, human self and whole being!
To merely accept the ongoing sufferings
And inequities of the bulk of humankind!
III.
Human life (and being) is not a case
of "to be or not to be".
It is a case of where and what to be,
And how to be that whatness;
And why to be that whyness.
There in our home of human beings.
It is a case of the becoming of,
And sustainment of, human beings--
Beyond the case of mere
Human organisms remaing alive;
Beyond our brains' and bodies' growth;
Beyond health and life, of our brain-body organisms.
IV.
Our human ecosphere-habitat is our where
We journey through our human beingness,
Is where our eco-nature-human being;
Finds what to love, how to love, and why to love.
Should these grown attainments be forgot?
Or, ever be our find!
Copyright 2013 L.S. Heatherly
Nov 10, 2013
Birth of Soul
by L.S. Heatherly
Soul -- in singing, talking, playing music;
In living, loving, and being human:
Something unbought by diploma's hubris;
Ungained by travel, arts, and science in hand;
Something growing outward, upward and true:
Where yearning stops; Heart throbs; and Earth-love springs;
Enfolding the child, relating love's rule,
Over all Human and Earth brought things.
Soul is mother of family, village, and fairness;
Of bondings, givings, receivings: all this
Old treasure defies the greedy and selfish!
Soul is wonders, splendors, all lovings' sweet bliss!
Soul's a sweet cup, sipped here, in fleeting time;
So unworthy, we, of soul's long presence.
Human heart's vision is Culture's essence.
Soul's decision is pure, ancient, and sublime.
With each arising from our depths,
We are, briefly, born again-blessed.
With each pollution of child's purity;
We pollute, strike short, our futurity.
Copyright 2013 L.S. Heatherly
Soul -- in singing, talking, playing music;
In living, loving, and being human:
Something unbought by diploma's hubris;
Ungained by travel, arts, and science in hand;
Something growing outward, upward and true:
Where yearning stops; Heart throbs; and Earth-love springs;
Enfolding the child, relating love's rule,
Over all Human and Earth brought things.
Soul is mother of family, village, and fairness;
Of bondings, givings, receivings: all this
Old treasure defies the greedy and selfish!
Soul is wonders, splendors, all lovings' sweet bliss!
Soul's a sweet cup, sipped here, in fleeting time;
So unworthy, we, of soul's long presence.
Human heart's vision is Culture's essence.
Soul's decision is pure, ancient, and sublime.
With each arising from our depths,
We are, briefly, born again-blessed.
With each pollution of child's purity;
We pollute, strike short, our futurity.
Copyright 2013 L.S. Heatherly
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