the plan was to develop disdain …
in his grandkids …
for rampant artificialization, stuff, cars, plastics, large air-conditioned homes, agrilogistics, exotic imported foods, too much order, … fossil material/energy, Neoliberal Capitalism borne of genocide, slavery, socio-ecological injustice and destruction, and usury … and militarism and War.
they would understand disparity, biocapacity, carrying capacity, overshoot, draw-down of the natural resource base;
dynamic homeostatic symbioses/Nature/LIFE! & biodiversity, an ethic of reciprocity, the second law of thermodynamics, and the precautionary principle; and
the need for ecology-across-curricula-and-campuses of all human organizational entities.
they were to have small ecological footprints
and to know, advocate, work, and fight for the poor, the disenfranchised, the undocumented, the powerless.
they would tear down all walls, and communicate and negotiate toward real love and lasting peace … and PEACE or Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology.
……………………
perhaps he’s failed, this stubborn, ignorant man.
you know, the “best laid plan … .”
and this wasn’t best laid by this catch-as-catch-can … man.
he was banned, roughly/toughly blocked by loved ones.
clipped in the “football-game” of life, hit above–and below–the belt
and overtly and covertly announced to be toxic!
truth be told
there were many and complex reasons (though he thinks not always so legit/not quite right)
for loved ones acting cold and shutting him out of their fold … tagged with a scarlet letter.
grandpa failed to adhere to norms deemed appropriate by society, the club of Haves, those of Power/by those Goodly & Godly, Blessed, Chosen … and by some loved ones.
in their eyes he was infected and scarred-unsightly in more ways than one through his ethos and actions.
(and for certain he wasn’t the perfect partner for his most loved one … or for any of his loved ones.)
……………………
still … he never gives up, and now he thinks, ponders, and cogitates,
“i do hope at the least that grandkids/others learned/learn ‘the lessons’”:
- it is good to have confidence in your decisions and a certainty that you do care.
- but take care to carefully test the winds and the air (including that in your head, fred).
- there are always unintended consequences; life is not fair.
- for some reasons … love, empathy, decency, respect, forgiveness, COMMUNICATION! is spare or not there in many you believe should care.
- (but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care and shouldn’t all the while enjoy the fair.)
…………………..
a trumpian wall, a discriminatory prejudice, (a ban from stepping on a site of loved ones cerca de las aguas del cañón) … is there, … and certainly not fair.
nevertheless, i love them all!!!
(and there are many others to friend in this world of a lair.)
pbm
7 S’s / VV->^^
