stepping in the right direction

Our common aesthetic tendency is to agree that the digestive product of our bodies is unpresentable, without much need for further discussion. At the same time, the digestive products of our fuller beings are, at their best, viewed as valuable, and are celebrated and consumed and recycled or reproduced in a perpetual ecosystem of culture.

Still…there may be something to be learned from this discrepancy in our regard for our various species products. For, at its worst, the digestive product of our bodies is organic matter: readily composted into earth and soon forgotten. In contrast, the worst products we otherwise contribute to life on this earth (ideologies, economies, practices, etc.) are toxins that can pollute entire cultures and generations, create holocausts and genocides, perpetuate prejudices, etc. etc. So, there is something to be said, after all, for the scatological view of human productivity.

What selective principles do we use to distinguish between what ought to be flushed straightaway and what ought to be valued and shared? Judging from the history of the species, we do well to distrust ourselves at least a little when it comes to our productions.

In turn (and this is the pirouette), if you’re one of the ones with any kind of an eye for the good, and some ability to put it out there, shouldn’t you be trying to do that like it’s your job? Don’t we all need every step we can get in the right direction, for the good of all our health?

I may not be able to do much. But I’ll go on taking these little steps,
hear that gentle & intermittent tapping:::
the sound of my fingers tripping along in pursuit of health.