Looking Out from Our Front Porch Steps Near Downtown Seguin, Texas at Two in the Afternoon, Late August, 2020

Browns to yellows to yellow-greens and mostly deep greens cover the life-giving, moist loam.   Leaf patterns seem infinite in attempts to effectively capture life-maintaining solar energy.   Innumerable leaves, and branches with leaves, jut out from St. Augustine, crape myrtles, persimmons, figs, thirteen pecan trees, and other flora in efforts to get their just […]

Message to My Adult Relatives and Friends: “Children, Innocence, and Ecology”

I think a lot about innocent children.  My poem this week herein paulpeaceparables.com for Seguin’s Creekside Poets focused to a large extent on sweet kids. As I watch and listen to a segment of Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War on PBS and think about Hiroshima, the anniversary of which was earlier this month on August 6th–I reflect on how […]

Civilization: Perceptions and Reality

Three “Civilized” Perceptions. Britannica, land of hope and glory. Belgium, for freedom and law. United States of America, where the flag stands for freedom.   Reality. “You can best serve civilization By being against What usually passes for it.” So says Wendell Berry … And we should all agree!   If could be that many […]