Move over Move-On! Make room. The More-On Movement’s on its way here!
More On Pre-Test:
To see if you are More On material, answer the following questions.
- Are you older (&/or wiser) now than you used to be?
Y__ (Y__); N__(N__). [Do older in blanks
(wiser in blanks in parentheses).] - Is this page not sponsored by one or more of the following Mishugunah Peninsula civic organizations?
Mishugunah Lion’s Club (“Lie-Lay, Prey-Eat”);
Mishugunah Donkeys (“Graze, Bray & Buck”);
Mishugunah Rabbits (“Burrow, Cuddle & Snuggle”);
Mishugunah Chicken Hawks (“Soar, Dive & Perch”);
Void Ladies Auxiliary (“Lunch, Lick, Lit”).Y___; N___
A: If you answered Yes to any at all, congratulations!
You’re a WINNER!–You’re not only More On material,
you win an automatic honorary~~~MOM: MORE-ON
MEMBERSHIP, & with two or more Yesses, qualify for
a framable MOMA: More On Member Award.
[e.g., In #1, you’re certainly older, & by now, ought to be wiser.
In #2, the answer is yes, this page is NOT sponsored by the Mishugunah Chicken Hawks, which went out of existence some time ago when it became part of the Void Ladies Auxiliary.]
Any non-Mishugunah organization would say, enough already! After all, you’re already a free member. But as dedicated practitioners of the More On Philosophy, More On Principles & More On Postits approach, we believe even our pre-tests should have post-scripts. Thus:
2b. MOM’s more-than-annual More-On Awards are presented:
–fresh daily;
–to any reader who gets this far (but no further);
–by the mind, to the mime, in the (Y’ore-mine) mirror;
–wherever inspiration strikes (out);
–for information above & beyond the crawl of duty.
3d. For depth of perspective, the totally unrelated annual O.D.D.D. Miss Management Awards are presented:
–by the Organizational Development Division of the Disconnectady Department of Miss-Management;
–by ASAP (Associated Societies, Alliances & Partnerships);
–once every three years, in odd years only;
–at a no-host banquet at Warren’s All-You-Can-Stomach Buffet;
–in different categories for Miss Accounting, Miss Estimates, Miss Management, Miss Manhandling, & various kinds of Revenue Misses. - Awards are intentionally presented
–out of sequence;
–in absentia;
–with, by, from & to starlets, & celebrities,whenever possible;
–otherwise, anxious nominees, sweating newcomers, tipsy critics, wry comics, biting gadflies & fuming losers with a grip to air;
–as provided, advised, &/or funded by contributing co-sponsors.
Miss Management Awards are supported by some of the peninsula’s most tasteful & enlightened co-sponsors, like Lusty Snap Visuals, Spunky Ads & Promotions, Sniffinger & Co.; Miss Translation Services, & Miss Management Consulting MMC.
Taking these in reverse, Miss Management Consulting is where the rubber of the More-On Movement meets the asphalt of the road…. Sniffinger & Co. lights up the scent marketplace one finger at a time, asking, how many fingers does it take to screw in an olfactory bulb?
Upping the digital smell wattage, the aroma watt equivalent, & selling the sizzle, Miss Translation Services turns “where the head of the snake meets the clog in the line” into “where the head of the
—rake meets the clothes on the line;
—hoes meets the weeds in the rows;
—rose meets the nose where it grows;
—rosebud meets the jam of the toes.”
Lusty Snap Visuals, audio-video-augmented-unreality….now features a subscription to Haho Lucy-Nation, the neuro-net channel that promises “you won’t believe your eyes, ears, nose, throat or what your imagination is capable of…until you’ve tried Haho Lucy Nation.”
Spunky Ads & Slippery Promotions, is a one-stop shop, home of the SPONSOR TO BE NAMED LATER, saving the best for…next..which could be YOU, or a company you know. (Spunky pays bounties, finder’s fees & loser fund discount free return certificates in lieu of kickbacks.)
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More On Movement: Origins
Before the beginning was nothing–no place, no time, no thing, no nada, no beginning, no more. (No crap, no kidding.) In the lack of time before the beginning, there was neither before nor after. And then there was, & more, & more still, more in motion, more in progress, including the idea of (& urge for) more going forward, with hardly a chance to look back until now….
Some call the source of that urge & idea God & the results good; others call it existence, & results mixed (good, bad, indifferent, and more)! Either way, there’s more to be, more to know, & more to come.
Those who name this urge-&-idea use as many tongues as they have–Ma, Mum, Mmmmm, Ra, Almighty Claude, Jehovah, Yee Ho Vah, G. Hossaphat, Allah, Zoro, Geronimo, Bonzai, Tao, Dodo, Dada, #@$!^%*, etc. Once named, any urge or idea–no matter how strange–might be attributed to this primal stirring of the creator.
“Wait. You are getting ahead of ourselves,” sayeth the lord, source of all beginnings.
In the beginning was a great eruption of creative gas, making its own space & taking its own sweet time to make plenty more, until all it took was a spark, a match, a little bit of friction, to ignite the thought, light the urge, give the idea more space-time-hot gas-light room to grow sound, suns, & all manner of stuff following after.
Playing catch-up, but never succeeding, generations of star-systems & galaxies expanded the repertoire of fundamental bits, elements, and their combinations. Who knew that two bits of the primal gas (H) & one bit of O would make something so wet, so live, so thirst-quenching as water in a narrow temperature band, beyond which the same stuff became solid as ice or breathy as steam?
But not even that combination was enough to satisfy the urge to be, to be more, & to become something else again with a slight change in conditions. The urge for more, apparently as strong as ever, gave rise to planets, with water, air and all manner of rocky, mucky, sandy & yummy lands, all in motion, all becoming more, with more polymers, more variety of locations, more combinations of elements, more forms, urge & idea. - More life, in other words, with more capacity to draw & use energy, be, know & become, make interdependent networks beyond maps, with interwoven food chains, cooperations that are also able to compete at scale, where necessary, across scales, with more orders of magnitude at play.
But not even that was enough–the urge for more, apparently as strong as ever, drove a spiral of expanding complexity, fueled by mutually beneficial synergies & the fact that cooperation conferred competitive advantage, where two or more might hunt, carry or defend more effectively than the sum of what each could do alone.
If one or more are dogs, you’re really in business, as working together spans species, includes corn, artichokes, yaks, rabbits, berries, and more kinds of microbes than you can shake a stick at or even count. More vitamins & minerals, animals & vegetables, urges & ideas–tools & transformations, like use of fire, shaped sticks & stones, pots & skewers, along with the ideas, from sounds to words, signs to mimes, rocks to rockets, threads to web, print to virtual Bod Library-On-Line.
From there, of course, it’s barely a hop, skip, jump & stumble to the Bod Library’s MORE-ON-CLUB, featuring More-On-This, More-On-That, More-On-the-Little-Girl-Who-Sat-On-Her-Cat-Hat, etc., i.e., whatever members are interested in, whether they know it beforehand or not. If it’s not there yet, more is surely on its way. When was there ever less? [More on the Bod’s MORE-ON CLUB & its movement…ASAP.—
