Can robots be equal?

one of the weird and wonderful things
about being human
is that in a certain way
we have only
three choices:

high functioning robot

low functioning robot

awake


in our awake state
we are right here,
now

another person
is a wonder to us,
like a flower,
a redwood tree,
a sunset
perfect
just as they are

awake people
can love,
can see others as amazing
don't get into who is
better, gooder
all that
nonsense

asleep people,
the high and low
robot times in
our life:
we can't love,
we can want
demand,
crave
worry

worship others
look down
on them

can't be equal,
so well always live in stress:
who is better than me,
who is less

ah, the worn out feeling
of trying to live a lie

and then,
at any moment we can wake
up out of that
and
love
again

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today at the Brain Plasticity Blog
a fun movement lesson for strengthening
our real core:
the lower back,
which holds up upright
and propels us as we walk and run,
and allows our hands and arms to be free
when we sit and want to type
or play the piano
or draw a beautiful picture of
a rose or a redwood tree