Local ecological problems, and issues which should be dealt with when profoundly & holistically resolving these challenges, are generally a microcosm of global challenges. Here in our Seguin, Texas area, a landfill proposed for development over the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer was one such challenge. And very recently the local political activity resulting from the proposed permanent […]
Monthly Archives: August 2019
Ecological Prudence, Morals & Ethics, and Critical Thinking (Including Involving the Development & Maintenance of Artificial Lakes)
“To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.” Wendell Berry, […]
The 60s
“Somewhere along the way, Nash, like many of us, got old. But that hope never did.” https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/08/11/leonard-pitts-woodstock/ In my life, the 60s & 70s was a very special time. … Flattop & burr … to hair. Latin- memorizing altar boy to knowledge-seeking skeptic. Wannabe priest/military pilot to wannabe social justice/ecological activist toward pacfism (Positively Ethical […]
Saudades for Something Closer to a Dynamic Homeostatic Symbioses (“nature”) … Before Rampant Artificialization
I think I am somewhat of a spiritual romantic and dreamer who also tries: • to read, listen to, absorb, understand, and act out some of the manifestations of the intellect of relatively solid intellectuals in various realms and • to take some worthy pragmatic actions by tagging along with some intelligent and wise take-action […]