mhm -
and he's -
not a liar -
he's a gaslighter -
incanting a belief -
that he deserves -
what he wants to be -
and scared to -
extremes -
that he's a pity-full -
weak-link -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

6/26/2022 - First Quarter Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/06/6262022-first-quarter-moon.html

the city housing projects designed to perpetuate the individual as a supposedly independent unit in a small hygienic dwelling make him all the more subservient to his adversary – the absolute power of capitalism

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm

plant species that lived together had closely matching life histories: Pairs of species living in the same ecosystem tend to be more complementary than randomly drawn pairs.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-key-to-species-diversity-may-be-in-their-similarities-20230626/

less than 2% of the tree species in the Amazon account for half of all the individual trees, meaning that 98% of the species are rare.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-key-to-species-diversity-may-be-in-their-similarities-20230626/

Tōjisha-kenkyū is based on a simple idea. Humans have long shared their troubles so that others can empathise & offer wisdom about how to solve problems. experience of mental illness often has an absence of collective sharing and problem-solving

https://aeon.co/essays/japans-radical-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosis

Unlike those with physical and visible disabilities, second group of tōjisha were not sure how to advocate for themselves as members of society. They didn’t know what they wanted and needed from society. This knowing required new kinds of self-knowledge

https://aeon.co/essays/japans-radical-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosis

how beautiful -
she looks -
today -
and i feel it -
a sense of -
glow -
i feel-see -
when i see - hui -
i real-ize -
how it is only to her -
have i heard so often -
from my own voice -
how beautiful she is -
among all women -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

public celebrations -
in local dimensions -
social with care -
enable everyone -
to care for -
themselves -
and others -
this grows -
social fabric of woven trusts -
worthy of care -
fullness -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

Delaware’s Democratic-controlled legislature is considering a Republican bill that would give corporations the right to vote

https://jacobin.com/2023/06/delaware-corporations-voting-legislation-citizens-united

drifting -
losing attention -
to news -
mhm -
'the-evening-news' -
archi-detected -
for stream-casting -
news-is-a-channel -
not on a channel -
a brand-in-brand -
channel -
shaping a-narratives -
in media-ecologies -
entangled -
contents-genres-markets -
by-who -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

don't know -
just went down -
a rabbit-hole -
doorway -
into war-ren-community -
relationships-afford-dancing -
ai-pophenia -
as if the -
young-lady -
old-lady -
are not one-and-same -
grasping of actuality -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

jeez -
woke vs sharia -
dee - san -
dis -knee -
wants to steal -
the breath -
from minnie -
in front of mickey -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

In last 20 yrs, nonprofits have grown rapidly. Would be great to build on or duplicate the model of [Corporation for Public Broadcasting] with federal & state funding for independent nonpartisan nonprofit news organizations
MUKHTAR IBRAHIM, SAHAN JOURNAL

https://localnewsroadmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/The-Roadmap-for-Local-News-Feb-2-23.pdf

“The path of building trust with the community is not just about the journalism itself, it’s about the reporter’s personal interactions with people in the community.”

STEVE WALDMAN, REPORT FOR AMERICA, REBUILD LOCAL NEWS COALITION

https://localnewsroadmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/The-Roadmap-for-Local-News-Feb-2-23.pdf

6/18/2022 - New Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/06/6182022-new-moon.html

Civic Information: “High-quality, verifiable information that enables people to respond to collective needs by enhancing local coordination, problem-solving, systems of public accountability, and connectedness.”

https://medium.com/we-are-hearken/what-could-happen-if-we-give-up-saving-journalism-bf53a4cfcf25

Our first step toward making the possible real is to imagine it. The causal power of imagination “is nowhere in physics,”

Forget where I read it - wish i wrote it.

Original Entanglement – Enacting Social Fabric – Re-Cognizing Futures

http://www.johnverdon.com/2015/09/original-entanglement-enacting-social.html