Monthly Archives: April 2020

I suppose I have to have hope in humanity (i.e., in its quest for scientific knowledge, humility, empathy, compassion, respect, discipline & integrity, and in its capacity for Truth & Prudence) … and hope for quality life for all!!??!! “Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology-PEACE” across curricula & campuses (EACC), of all human organizational entities, will […]

The WSJ has it mostly wrong today re the Green Revolution on their editorial page … and the PBS Norman Borlaug documentary is on the right track. It should be common knowledge by now that: 1. Dr. Borlaug et al. didn’t abide by the Precautionary Principle, 2. there were better routes toward quality life for […]

Memories shared at brother Lawrence’s funeral service ten (10) year’s ago in the same church where the funeral service of our beloved and highly respected Coach Marvin Gustafson was held ( https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/lawrence-martin-obituary?pid=139164488 )– [Lawrence gifted me with the book in the photo above, Paideia Problems and Possibilities, and invited me to present one afternoon to […]

  What would an ethical and rational critical thinker and decision-maker expect? Two hundred thousand years of living in dynamic homeostatic symbioses through a light ecological footprint.. Then from one million in 8000 BCE to one billion in 1800 to eight to ten billion! Daily consumption by some of these humans rising from 20,000 kilocalories […]

My mother Louise had this letter (and photo) in her cedar chest (which seems to be bottomless). My sister Linda Louise gave it to me the other day … a few weeks before Mother’s Day 2020: “14 May 1967 Dear Mother, Today is Mother’s Day and I am sorry I’ve not done more Mother to […]

Verdant sunny trail Well cleansed after rainy morn Wine cups spring delight pbm [ 7 S’s / VV->^^ ]

Those who believe they know “THE TRUTH” and “THE WAY” live the biggest of lies. We all live, at a minimum, little lies even though we may wish not to acknowledge it. For too many, Truth is that More is good for our Eaarth.  That is a very big lie, disappointing, and sad! For some […]

My poor family deserves more! I’m leaving for that good-paying roofing work in Texas tomorrow.. Twenty-two days of walking; rickety school buses; coyotes; La Bestia; crossing hot, blistering, cold-at-night desert. Siguatepeque to Nuevo Laredo … and more coyotes. Two hours in San Antonio. ¡Pinche putos cabrones! ¡¡¡La migra!!! Back to Honduras the next day. …………………. […]

There is no racing high like when pushing it and then coasting in a final stretch. Racing and its high have long since petered out for me! Nevertheless, in this evening’s bicycle ride along Walnut Creek I am moving, grooving. The ride is smooth, soothing! The evening air cool and clean. The path and the […]