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Had to savour this one with my coffee! I love to enter the Symbiocene! To follow my nose to the scent of brilliance. A beautiful narrative. You are a word detective who unlocks mysteries of time! Amazing.

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thank you so much Jamie❣️ I'm just following my nose. She's a funny one + nosy (obviously) – always surprising me with the narratives she comes up with. I very much appreciate your reading and comments 🙏 💕

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First of all, I love your fairy! I wonder what word could describe the symbioses of bio and soul? Soulbioses? Soulsymbiocene! Symbiosoulfulscene?

The conversation on sexist is interesting to me since I am still processing the many challenges I have faced as a bridge builder, finding that I have overlap with people who love to use conspiracy theory to dismiss things I know to be true as much as i know I have a big toe, as well as those who use narrative to dismiss things like sexism.

My understanding is this is a deliberate way to try to separate good people into dismissing one another instead of coming together to say, "What pieces of the puzzle do you have that i might need? Here, I have this piece, see if it resonates with you...even if we see it differently, there is enough space for us all to thrive, even if perhaps not in the exact same area of the garden, so to speak!

And with all this, we need childlikeness more than ever!

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You're asking a difficult question there, Alicia. Symbiosis means literary 'living together'.

("union for life of two different organisms based on mutually benefit,")

'Bios' is the Greek word for 'life', as you probably know. And as far as I understand, soul is an integral part of life. Sym is used to combine two entities which could also be separate. Can 'bios' and 'soul' be separate at all?

Or are you thinking of the 'soul of symbiosis'?

Thank you for sharing your experiences with 'narrative' and 'conspiracy theory'. In the Anthropocene (= the current era) these are verbicidal terms. They kill off the meanings of other words (or people's stories and truths). In the Symbiocene (= the new era) the use of such words is unacceptable.

I see it exactly in the same way as you do. There is no one truth that one of us has and the others don't. We all have pieces of the puzzle. Trouble starts when we fight over which piece of the puzzle is the 'right one'. That's how ridiculous humans can be...

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May the verbicide end

Along with the Monsanto-bayer herbicide

No longer interested in what we can hide

May we rise to a joyous ride!

Finding Presence

In the Bio

In the Sym

In the Soul

Can they be separate?

Not if any wants to last

But try try try

Will the Davos Princes

To do the things that cause people like us winces

When we love one another and the soil the sky and the sea

The sacred in you and in me

When sense we are more and less than we think ourselves to be

xo

Then we will be truly free!

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love this spontaneous joyous poetic burst 💥

We're already on that ride 🏄

No one can stop us now ⋆.ೃ࿔*:・

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YES!

We Are The Ones We've Been Waiting For!

Everywhere I look people are awakening

Although in pain the world is quakening

We are learning to compost our shit into flowers

These are our powers

We can let go faster and burst forth from darkness to light

We can arise from within ourselves

And dance ourselves right!

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Oh my so good! I’ll read through a few times and be back!

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