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 […]
Monthly Archives: August 2020
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 […]
Values
The basic clear-cut philosophy Of a Tom T. Hall Appeals to me. “I love leaves in the wind, pictures of my friends, Birds of the world and squirrels. I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, Bourbon in a glass and grass. And I love you, too.” “Ain’t but three things in […]
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 […]