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TOKYO’S TOKENISM OFFERS A LESSON FOR PARIS 2024

While euphoria still echoes round the room,
about things viewed in Olympics 2021 by zoom;
out of this world’, ‘over the moon’, ‘Oh my God’,
‘fantastic’, ‘unbelievable’, ‘amazing’, ‘incredible’,
‘extra-ordinary’, abounding examples of individuals and their teams
expressing the outcome of patient and persistent preparation,
with the encouragement of skills instilled by familial training.

Is this not a glimpse, hint, open aspiration, of evolutionary enterprise,
as seeded at every birth; the wonder enclosed within
that profound term ‘incarnation’, potentiality available eternal creativity,
seen in every tiny sphere each occupies within the cosmic vastness.

Such spirited energy has expanded for the supereon since Big Bang.
‘Oh my God’. How now to convert such dedication and discovered glory
in our drive for the Common Good as one ‘international human team.’

What mutuality, what enduring training, what end outcomes?
Yes, unique opportunities to serve and not to count the cost,
to see the outcome not of individual medals or near misses
but the true sharing of the Common Good.

What is the use of that marvellous Olympic global viewing
of personal best or new world records, massive achievements,
if we do not diligently apply expertise and training to life ourselves;

to the tasks of structural change ahead, the end of usury,
the passing on of earth’s gifts without possessiveness,
the evolving of co-operation as the basic mode
of not only Olympic aspiration, but that of the salvation
in perpetual evolution of nature’s eternal gift,
integral life in its prior unity expressed ever in rich diversity.

Let’s all birth anew each day such euphoria, such hope.

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Dialogue translating Olympic fervour for structural redesign and application.
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 GARFOSS