Monthly Archives: May 2023

sure!!!! “at the end of the day,” as they often say, homo sapiens will fizzle away my department chair, dr. william conan davis, a man i respected he was almost always objective and not subjective we discussed much; and, dr. davis did sometimes express his dislike for my use of the term “fizzle” even if […]

love hate love of enemies, family, friends … a son, a brother, or a mate (or a dove) it wasn’t their or my or their or my or their or my fault that sometimes it continued and grew beautifully, sometimes there was a halt we came together … … or drifted apart the mind, the […]

I recognize that I am a pendejo!  …  I realize I don’t have time for this!  I’ll get to work in more intelligent, sophisticated, respectful & PC way “in a minute”.  …  Again, I confess that I am a pendejo!! ………………………………. This is from a little collection of fun articles (“Drink Cultura:  Chicanismo”, 1993) written […]

I want to see more holidays, memorials, statues, books, radio & television and magazine & newspaper pieces, social media posts, … celebrating PEACE, pacifists, conscientious objectors, peace activitists & PEACEmakers, Veterans For Peace1, diplomacy … . I tire of a country/an Eaarth of so much adulation of War2 in so very many ways, and I […]

All you wonderful Mothers, and others: I do hope you have/had a HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!! (Nevertheless on this day of celebration of motherhood … as we ride/rode through Seguin heading for Rio in Medina Co., Texas, the home of the formative-years of smiling/loving [my love] Betsy & home of my 94-yr-old Mother-in-law who lives alone […]

Forewords: “We were born before the windAlso, younger than the sun‘Ere the bonnie boat was wonAs we sailed into the mystic Hark now, hear the sailors crySmell the sea and feel the skyLet your soul and spirit flyInto the mystic Yeah, when that fog horn blowsI will be coming homeYeah, when that fog horn blowsI […]

In a poem inspired by one hero of mine, Waylon Gaddie … (By the way, a very fine Elder & laddie) … … In this “Poem of Hope. Prayer for Life-Sustaining Soft Power on Earth” 1 … I mention that the Lakota language is void of the harsh cursing words we genocidal-tending, species-eliminating, colonizing neoliberal-capitalistic […]

(45) Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son (Official Lyric Video) – YouTube Mom St. Louise, Dad, Roy Orbison, Uncle Peggy, Tony & Robert Cruz, Coach Gus, Ruth Allen, Mrs. Wilkinson & Belew, Lacy Haywood, Dr. Joe Schaffner, Pete Lingren, ELIZABETH FLORENCE HOFFMANN MARTIN (Betsy), Johnny Hoffmann, David Pimentel, Alton Sparks, Jeremy Bain, John Alton, Angela […]

Obviously “Less Is More!” We must be advocates for and practitioners of degrowth. … (Moreover, “’Green’ growth is a ‘fantasy’ with ‘no empirical support.’” [Economic anthropologist Jason Hickel]) We DESPERATELY need “Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology”/PEACE across the curricula & campuses of all human organizational entities in order to realize critical thinking, decision-making, and appropriate […]