Marco V Morelli @[email protected]

And here is perhaps my favorite:

The Universal Destination of Goods.

"The universal destination of goods is an overriding principle in Catholic social teaching, as it relates to economic ethics, and basically says that the goods of the Earth belong to everybody, without exclusion, without exception, not just to the rich."

"How about this concept of integral human development?”

"It’s very simply the good of the whole person and each person. So each person means you can’t exclude anybody from the common good. But the whole person means you want the development of all people across all dimensions of human flourishing."

"[T]he common good is the good of our shared social endeavors that transcends the good of each individual and can’t be divided into the individual goods that make it up. It’s basically the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We are bound together and community, tied to each other intimately. And that includes the economic sphere."

I grew up Catholic, but left Catholicism behind me when I began reading widely, learning Buddhist meditation, and taking philosophy and literature more seriously, as a young man. That said, as I’ve grow older, I can recognize a lot of value in the Catholic worldview, even if its theology may disagree with me.

“Cathonomics" is one area where we can agree, if this includes the common good, integral human development, integral ecology, and solidarity among its principles.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-05-13/can-cathonomics-produce-a-just-and-sustainable-world

War/life balance—
How does one achieve
the optimum?

Cold War, Gulf War, War on Terror,
War on Drugs, Race War, Sex wars,
Culture wars, Tweet wars—

War in Ukraine, war in Somalia…
All our lives: war movies, alien invasions
At war with ourselves

And every day, we go back to work
Back to our arts & sciences
Return to our measured critique

While the War Machine rumbles
And the Beast feeds…
And our childrens' futures bleed.

Just had a beautiful conversation with Andrea van de Loo, a writer with the co-op who is working on a memoir that goes back to her childhood during WW2 in Holland, and follows her experiences through the countercultural movements of the '60s, #spiritual communities, #psychedelics, the sexual revolution, and much more. Now entering her 9th decade, Andrea has so much life experience and elder wisdom to share. “The Pressing Stones” will be published by Unimtely Books whenever it’s done!

I’m loving exploring all the interesting instances and individuals using #Mastodon. The #fediverse is much cooler than the tweetsphere. This is how the Internet *used to feel like*. The only difference is, we were innocent then; now we are experienced. I speak for myself, anyway.

And now we have a sales tax license to conduct business from our 'economic nexus' in the state of Colorado. On top of our beautiful new PO Box number (3). We’re officially ready to sell lotsa lotsa books and not get in trouble. Will the ecstasies of adulthood never cease? #allgrownup

I own my own social network, too. It does pretty much the same thing the other one does, without the asinine algorithmic advertising and self-serving billionaire BS—it's just a little bit lonelier, perhaps, at this stage. But that could change...

Hey, want to own your own social network with me?

Cosmos.social is welcoming new members. Social.coop, too. There are many diverse communities in the fediverse, distinct yet interconnected. Pretty cool concept. Take your pick!

#indie #coop #ownership

When are we going to stop poisoning the earth and ourselves? https://coloradosun.com/2022/04/22/forever-chemicals-colorado-fish-samples-pfas

Our new website (still in development) is coming along… https://untimelybooks.com/

"Untimely Books is an indie publisher of literary works that bend the mind, question the contemporary, and reimagine horizons of thought, feeling, and action for an integral age. As an imprint of Cosmos Cooperative (a creative community & member-owned publishing platform) and Metapsychosis (a journal of consciousness, literature, & art), Untimely Books serves as a conduit for diverse forms of writing by Cosmos members, including original works of fiction, poetry, philosophy, essays, and memoir."

Spending the day doing a final proofread of #Plenum, which I finally have a review copy of in my hands. Despite issues with the print job (from Amazon), which some design modifcations from K should correct, mostly the book reads beautifully. I’ve found only a couple typos so far (we previously missed with the electronic/PDF proofs) and a few minor copy-editing items for Gj. If all goes well, by tonight we’ll have uploaded final files and be on track for an April 19th publication. 🥳

Crossing thresholds: I am about to pay our lawyers their retainer to start working with us on Cosmos’ author contracts, bylaws, and membership agreements, starting with an MoU tied to Geoffreyjen’s novel Plenum. And just in time. Our review copies for that are on the way, and the book seems to be on schedule for an April 19 release. It is now available for pre-order on Amazon, and will be everywhere else fine books are sold soon. I 💗 the work everyone’s done on this. https://amzn.to/3JaJOpe

And that strange sensation when you open a file to discover a poem which you clearly wrote at some point in the last few years—it is definitely in your style, and refers to your other work, and it’s pretty good and mostly finished, too—and yet, you have no recollection, or perhaps only the slightest glimmer of a memory, of having written it. "I wrote that?” What if there are whole other lives that I’ve forgotten? Whole books sprouted from my mind when I wasn’t paying attention? #self-archaeology

AND… Balance Sheet acheived. 💪🏼

As of December 31, 2021, our TOTAL ASSETS & LIABILITIES were $442.70 (in the BLACK, baby)

And now for a song by a good ol' friend:

https://soundcloud.com/robert-troise/balancing-act-radio-edit-master

Profit & Loss Statement done! 🎉

We spent $1869.98 more than we took in in 2021. Well, it was the year my mom died, and we were just trying to keep the project afloat, the focus wasn’t on money.

Fiscal Year 2022, with the launch/landing of our first real publishing projects (with books by Geoffreyjen Edwards, Brian George, Lisa Maroski, Mary Thaler, and Maía in the works; and the opening up of real co-op membership), is shaping up to be much better.