Excess mortality (more deaths than normally expected), rose during pandemic - estimates of 16.8 to 28.1 million global excess deaths from all causes. as COVID-19-related deaths decreased through 2022, excess mortality persisted in many countries.

https://insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/insurance-industry-coalition-forms-non-profit-to-study-excess-mortality

It was as if, inside of each cell, a metronome was ticking away. With each swing of the pendulum, a variety of cellular processes — gene expression, protein degradation, cell differentiation and embryonic development — all kept pace and stayed on time.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-makes-life-tick-mitochondria-may-keep-time-for-cells-20230918/

cheezuz -
brand-logo -
proliferation -
phase-transitions -
new forms -
fore - logo-iconic-languaging -

and then there's music -
and when you add-it -
to our domestication -
of-by-fore -
the logo-iconic-lifeworld -
a more perfect -
you-nion -
of commodity-sumers -
#micropoem

9/22/2022 - First Quarter Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/09/9222022-first-quarter-moon.html

in an ecology -
of grifting grifters -
worm-tonguing public -
reasoning -

our -
journalism needs -
the facts of an ecology -
enaction -
and the narrative -
that patterns -
the meta-sym-bolism -
generative of -
robust civil -
response-abilities -
and rico-laws -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

and it's a sort of-
anti-environment -
to re-cognize -
the form of our -
avoid-dances -
not just carrots-good -
sticks-bad -
but which carrots -
and which sticks -
are enabling of -
all our flourishing -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

pondering -
could it be -
that the real question -
isn't -
will it solve our problems? -
a-moore profound question -

will it generate -
better problems fore -
enacting a caring -
just-fair -
society -
flourishing for all? -

then be ready -
to change -
our problems -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

mhm -
neoliberal-economics -
isn't a science -
of-economics -
as much as it's -
an accounting -
for the monetization -
of a moral framework -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

and ended up-
ordering -
stuff -
sigh -
shopping -
as avoid-dancing -
mind-focus-work -
and yet -
here i am -
focusing -
with fun -
joymeants -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

9/14/2022 - New Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/09/9142022-new-moon.html

how's things? -

this slipperiness -
of time-space -
and sept-fall cycles -
of kids -
schools -
work -
home -
forms -

shuddering wefts -
in the social -
fab-rick-vironment -
warping -
reflex-civilities -
entangle-meants -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

72 yr -
white male -

for last decade -
developing a prostrate thing -
where it gets bigger -
not in an outward way -

what made this clear -
was eventually -
eliminating -
standing up -
to pee -

and only now -
really noticing -
how much cleaner -
the bathroom is -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

formal-cause -
hard to point-to -
and -
nothing can happen -
without a medium -

like a-optical-illusion-paradox -
face-goblet thing -
it's medium -
in-forming cause -
that enables -
a signal -
in noise re-cognition -
of patterns -
evolving-meanings-of-relations -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
image by leonardo.ai

new "inverse vaccine" removes immune system's memory of one molecule. While such erasure would be unwanted for infectious diseases, it can stop autoimmune reactions like in multiple sclerosis, type I diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis or Crohn's disease,

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-inverse-vaccine-potential-multiple-sclerosis.html

in a sense -
letting self explain -
self-perience -
of pondering journeys -
journeys to understand -
what makes me curious -
and the gravity -
of my curiosities -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

What is sacrificed in ‘static’ description is that infinitely complex association among words and concepts without which we would lack any sense at all that we have understood anything of the infinite abundance of reality.

https://aeon.co/essays/borges-and-heisenberg-converged-on-the-slipperiness-of-language

9/14/2022 - New Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/09/9142022-new-moon.html

Evolution seems not to favor situations where any single species thrives too aggressively, instead favoring ones where organisms are surrounded by species other than their own.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/species-repulsion-enables-high-biodiversity-in-tropical-trees-20230913/

mhm -
for all the talk -
of democracy -
in mainstream -

political-military -
power -
is suffering -

exorcisms -
of-for-by capitalism -
cartels-r-us -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry