{"id":3275,"date":"2019-06-28T10:19:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2020-01-29T10:11:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T15:11:37","slug":"poem-the-ins-and-outs-of-breathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/28\/poem-the-ins-and-outs-of-breathing\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: The Ins and Outs of Breathing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which is better<\/strong>
\nTo breathe in or out<\/strong>
\nAt their annual convention<\/strong>
\nThis was the question<\/strong>
\nOf the year<\/strong>
\nNot a moment<\/strong>
\nToo soon<\/strong>
\nAs immanent researchers congregated<\/strong>
\nTook sides<\/strong>
\nGave talks<\/strong>
\nOf oxygen and carbon dioxide<\/strong>
\nAerobic capacity and respiration rates<\/strong>
\nJousting with jargon<\/strong>
\nAnd championing with prodigious and prestigious citations<\/strong>
\nAs philosophical schools of fish out of water<\/strong>
\nEvolve their thinking <\/strong>
\nIn the now<\/strong>
\nShared err<\/strong>
\nMissing the import of inspiration<\/strong>
\nAnd export of expiration<\/strong>
\nAnd in that moment<\/strong>
\nA women seated arose<\/strong>
\nPreviously silent spoke<\/strong>
\nIt simply depends<\/strong>
\nWhat you did last<\/strong>
\nAnd decidedly acting<\/strong>
\nPut it to rest<\/strong>
\n(until next)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some wear long the weigh, I heard the Zen or Zen-like answer to the question: Which is better, breathing in or breathing out?\u00a0 Steeped in an atmosphere of competition for the best and an all-too-often default mode of reducing problems to a single, universal solution, those of us living in Western cultures may miss the sublime holism and simple practicality of the answer: it depends what you did last. I am struck by the rhythm and harmony of this answer and its corresponding reality in nature. Nature breathes in deep harmonies, an underlying balance only poorly reflected in our oft pasted together half-truths and over-lying and mismatched self-servings.<\/p>\n

To this Zen meditation of a poem, I add my love of science and social justice, both of which lean gently but persistently into a more accurate and more fulfilling relationship with reality as a whole. A woman seated arises. One previously silent speaks. And decidedly acting it is put to rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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