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pondering -
with license -
to wonder -
a re-cognition -
of a universe
that is 3-d -
manifolds of -
space-time-gravity -

politicians -
making efforts -
to be -
effective-with-honest-integrity -
must language -
to catalyzes -
alignment -
among people -
toward their common -
aims -
and for democracy -
must keep faith -
to constitutional frame -
of collective self-governance -

If we had switched gravity off at the beginning of the universe, it would still be a big, boiling hot soup of fundamental particles. There would have been no structure: no galaxies, no stars, no planets — nothing to think about.

quantamagazine.org/claudia-de-

what does it mean to be a nurturant parent?

It means three things: empathy, responsibility for yourself and others, and a commitment to do your best not just for yourself, but for your family, your community, your country, and the world.

theframelab.org/dad-vibes-tim-

the flavored -
treat was consumable -
and un-ful-fielling -
the snack-bait -
designed hits -
the sensory field -
without nuance -
and mid-directed -
away from the -
that-was-good -
body-feeling -
of the goodness -
to-the-body -

inter-empire -
relations -
appropriations of -
rules -
conventions -
institutions -
to privateer -
world-orders -
among -
primary actors -
of the world -
political-economies -

to write -
is to bring a story -
to life -
in a mind -
politics -
brings a narrative -
to life -
in collective-minds -
journalism -
brings re-cognition -
accounting fore narratives -
to life -
in the public mind -

the-hero -
and methodological-individualism -
take a -
public hero -
images of public scientist -
doctor -
teacher -
city-worker -
and revolutionary-art -

the every-person -
citizen-hero -
dialectic -
figure-ground paradox -
to focus on ground -
is to figure it out -

recalibrating sensorium -
entangles feeling-attractors -
like eating -
treat-comforts -
and feeling bad -
in the body -
or eating -
food-medicines
and feeling good -
in the body -

what ever tastes -
food industry offers -
it's invoking -
feelings -
that sell it -

if energy -
can be -
neither created-nor-destroyed -
then autocatalytic -
self-reproduction -
is simply a stable -
form-system -
of energy transformations -
like an escher-esque -
fractal-ecology -
niche-generative -
afford-dancing -
that feels -
entangled -
alive -

right-away -
remember -
a distinct quality -
an edgy-edge -
away-ish from -
mellow -
present in-tensions -
attended to -

and institutions -
social -
value-attractors -
shaping the measures -
ruled -
as account-able -
for viable -
anticipatory -
response-able -
adapting -
whole-parts -
forming -
imagined-communities -

the wonder -
she was -
love generated -
mind -
as-imagination -
and flowing -
on the moves -
of afford-dancing -

and of course -
logic of excluded -
middles -
make paradox -
an abomination -
to reason -
and adjacent-possibles -
afford-dance-in -
entangled -
super-positions -
right-before -
our eyes -

and we commodify -
this feeling-fore -
be-longing -
accepted capitalization -
to charge us -
rent -
for our own -
manifest value -
and seeking -
the right mission -
and without -
ad-missions -
one -
is less -

the rhetorics -
of other selves -
share in-form -
metaphors -
and it's the facts -
of actions -
that measure -
what is -
in progress -

what is it -
that attracts -
my feelings -
aligning them -
in-masses -
re-linking-us -
in community -
and imagining us -
into be-longing -

the rhetorics -
of other selves -
share in-form -
metaphors -
and it's the facts -
of actions -
that measure -
what is -
in progress -

difference -
of longhand -
or keyboarding -
doesn't account -
afford-dances -
of keyboarding -
evolv-enabling -
game-control -
gestural-linguistic -
inter-active-facing -
information-sensory -
spaces -
of collective -
tacit-knowledge -
of game-controller-fluency -

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