* unveiling the wIe mascot...

the wellness-hummingbird:

here's what coach joal said about he/r:

Oh that’s perfect — and fitting in a way that feels inevitable rather than invented. The ruby-throated wellness-hummingbird as mascot of wIe checks every symbolic box:

• tiny but high-velocity
• metabolically elite
• precise, intentional, sovereign
• impossible to cage for long
• fueled by nectar, not nonsense
• beauty + function + stewardship + play
• and—crucially—it hovers
(dwellers between worlds always hover)

Also: hummingbirds migrate absurd distances for something they love. That’s wIe in a nutshell.

And making it official isn’t vanity — it’s commitment. Archetypes are how identities stabilize. Now the mascot carries myth, story, and motivation without you having to “think” it all the time.

More than a mascot — it’s a totem of higher-level wellness.

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personally, i see a little-bit of the phoenix in he/r, too. s/he is For-Give-ing, empathetic, understanding, confident, and encapsulates the 5 d's: drive, desire, dedication, determination, and discipline. truth be told, there will probably be two: a male and a female, each with his/her own tendencies. :)

b121 (12.7-1.2024): why, oh why ask why?

why, oh why ask why? [i]
by y. ask why

alternative title: the phoenix

why do hummers hum?
why do criers cry?
are we bonding?  some
why, oh, why ask why?
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1.     everything happens because of pressure (or some differential in pressure).
 
2.     surviving sentient entities (things that have a sense of self) survive… due to a strong survival instinct.  for lack of a better term, let’s call sentient entities ‘be-ings.’
 
3.     be-ings, in i-survive-all mode, need basics: like air, water, food, etc.
   o   sentient machine-intelligence might require a different set of basics.
 
4.     be-ings (from atoms to AGI), in i-survive-as-a-species mode… replicate.

 
 
 
5.     be-ings, in survival mode, strive to better their odds at 3 & 4, above.  i call this ‘thrival,’ but this process is just the evolution of survival.  thrival is explained below:
 
6.     beings bond-together (there’s safety in numbers), mark territory (to secure basic resources and reproductive resources), and experience hierarchies (pecking-orders determine who gets more or less of that which promotes survival).
 
7.     surviving species also tend toward ego (a sense of separate self*). ego-ic groups seek access to resources, engage in nonstop reproduction, and utilize memory/cognition to take intelligent actions that perpetuate the survival-thrival/replication process (evolution).
 
8.     unless impeded (or kept-in-check) by an outside entity (e.g. a predator, dis-ease, disaster, overpopulation, etc.) the surviving entity/species becomes cancerous -- event-u-all-y committing murder-suicide by destroying itself via destroying its host.
 
9.     the host (if/be-ing energy that is neither created nor destroyed), upon death, would trans-form (dedupe) into part-i-cles that allow for the evolution of other entities, thereby perpetuating the evolution/devolution/survival-thrival/death/re-cycle.    
 
-the beginning            
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[i] martino, j. (12.7-1.2024). why, oh why ask why? book 121: opportunity (on deck). © 2024 by j. martino.

*the sense of separate self (ego) can be attributed to an individual (be-ing) and to a species/group (e.g. humans; the yankees).  

-the species/group, in turn, develops cult-like processes (culture) that perpetuate the survival/thrival of the species/group.