My thoughts constantly ping in this empty head … wanting to get out … for better or worse … for good or for toxicity!
But the mornings are always of knee stiffness and chronic but slight aches (not pain!) and worry about falling … and stomach queasiness. Not serious hurt, but nags in getting the day started. (Cortisone injections do help tremendously, but they last only about three weeks or so.)
And then on this particular morn it was tidying up a bit after a busy weekend, taking out the supposed-recyclables on city pickup-day, pulling a few “weeds” in a raised bed, cleaning out the bed of this old pickup truck and getting Betsy ready for: her work in her pasture in far-away Rio Medina, Texas (70 miles or so), taking her wonderful 94-year-old Mom (who still lives alone “in the country”) to the doctors in San Antonio, delivering some turnips for her Mom, & visiting.
I have scribbled down some of the chaotic thoughts in this brain of limited capacity on the backs of old envelopes. However, now it’s time to hand-grind venison chili-meat for the meal I’ll prepare for plus or minus 35 Lions at McQueeney Lions Club-facility tomorrow night (and prep for cooking the side-foods of pinto beans with cured pork, okra with sausage, rice, turnips and cornbread). And I have to get in push-ups, bicycling, and a swim … or this going-on 77-year-old body will deteriorate even faster.
Electronic/algorithmic organization of most of the jewels of thought bouncing around in my head will have to wait!!!
(As I drank coffee earlier and watched more of the never-ending saga of our Lord and Savior Donald J. Trump on CNN, and thought of the NRA-gathering this weekend at the McQueeney Lions’ site [I do mingle with right-wing friends here in Texas; if I didn’t friends would be very, very few and far between.], I did thumb through each of the 259-pages of our 2021-published Games We Play (kite.pub) … published largely thanks to Dra. Ana Maria Gonzalez & Michael Godeck. After doing this, it confirmed that most of my daily “jewels” were already fairly thoroughly covered in Games We Play. More Than 200,000 Years of Living Truthfully and 5,000 of Searching for Truth. Moreover, I do often revisit the same thoughts in this blog, www.paulpeaceparables.com .)
In small talk this weekend, my loving son John Alton lightly teased me about being a capitalist as well as suggested (perhaps tongue in cheek) that “AI/IT-generated” correspondence might be used very effectively to coax key/significantly-influential “conservatives” (true conservatives conserve sustaining socio-ecological fabrics) or right-wing politicians toward a journey in solidarity of socio-ecological justice and quality life for all, including other species. ( A New AI Lexicon: Sustainability. From Tech to Justice: A Call for… | by AI Now Institute | A New AI Lexicon | Medium ) My thoughts quickly arrived to a point that is common in my little head lately. I will continue to try to do some drop-in-the-bucket actions toward socio-ecological justice through living relatively lightly on the Land, in ecological activities with youth here in the Seguin area, with Kids On the Land on Texas ranches out west, and Generations Indigenous Ways on Pine Ridge Reservation, through volunteer service activities in Central America, and by taking advantage of oral and written presentation-opportunities afforded … but also through attempts to make small talk transcend to BIG TALK.
However, my time … my body and mind … are rapidly coming to the end! Moreover, as with most individuals of the species Homo sapiens, I have done little in these 76+ years and have frequently dropped the baton.
Therefore, I would hope that my kids and grandkids, and other youth, will pick up the baton and carry it forth in a sustainable direction (of socio-ecological justice) … mostly through realization and promotion, promotion and realization, of “Less Is More”. … O Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Kofi Klu | Goodreads O Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth review – forget growth, think survival | Economics | The Guardian O This Pioneering Economist Says Our Obsession With Growth Must End – The New York Times (nytimes.com) O University Press of Colorado – A Prosperous Way Down (upcolorado.com) O Small is beautiful – an economic idea that has sadly been forgotten | Madeleine Bunting | The Guardian
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(YES! “LESS IS MORE!” … BUT MORE ON “THIS” LATER.)
pbm
7 S’s / VV->^^ (Important things to remember as we strive toward action of quality life for all: 1.The Golden Rule & pacifism which should be applied profoundly & holistically throughout Nature, 2. “Less Is More” especially with regard to the food component of our ecological footprint (produce locally; less “artificial/synthetic”, processing, packaging, transport, water. fossil energy; more efficient capture of solar energy), 3. “Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology/PEACE” across the curricula & campuses of all human organizational entities, 4. Always remember that “Today is the first day of the rest of your life!” and that music and art is the key to quality human life for the rest of your life, 5. Radically/”naturally” think out of the box!!!
Care! And Share!!!)
