mundane things were in the plans for this last day of 2022
(by this relatively comfortable not overly-intelligent, sort of lazy white guy
who over 76 years eased himself into a doctoral degree
and relatively cush livelihoods and some relatively significant power on this Eaarth)
1. work on an irs nag
(irs is threatening to penalize me
if i don’t adequately respond to their requests by the first week in january
[in the 55+ years required to do so
i have mostly done my own tax paperwork & filing
and contrary to what maga-admired “silver-spoon-in-his-mouth,” “wall-‘em-out” trump does
i always give the u.s. government the benefit of the doubt
even though much of my tax goes to the military-industrial machine of which i disapprove])
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2. a planned bicycle ride and then a swim
(seventy-six years old? gotta get the exercise … regularly)
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3. and I have obligated myself to work a new year’s eve wedding at the silver center
(for which my beautiful betsy is on the board)
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o but readings early this morn, and tv news, of the plight of immigrants on our texas border
o this morning’s boob tube displays of the wealth of people of this nation
o and trivial (and exploitive … and definitely not trivial) pursuits of this estados unidos
(four percent of the world’s population consuming 24 percent of Eaarth’s resources)
o these Holy days; the news of benedict-of-the-(wealthy) vatican’s death
o and news from another desperately poor central-american young friend
of her difficult trek from nicaragua (not yet completed) to reagan’s shining city on the hill
(the rich dreamland on this Eaarth, … historically land-grabbing & genocidal; of slavery & exploitive neoliberal capitalism, reagan’s “wonderful” trickle-down economics, and george w. & obama et al.’s militarism)
the “shining jewel of a nation” which from the early 1900s employed its powerful military
to invade/intervene in/exploit Yoseling Cordonero’s dear nicaragua
the intervention was thoroughly done militarily and economically
with marines, large corporations, and puppet-dictators
(and then reagan’s toxic contras of the 1980s)
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Yoseling left her home in chilamatillo community, tipitata, managua department this month
a few days before the celebrated birth of the mythically holy jesus of nazareth
a birth which was supposedly part of the reason christians (and perhaps some Christians)
are holy, sharing and caring, …
and live sabiamente, simply, smally, slowly, steadfastly, and sustainably
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(this all) started my head pinging about the hypocrically immoral & unethical Christians, including yours truly, in this nation of the u.s. of a.
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WHY?? …
from Christians in the u.s.a. …
prayer, satisfaction, complacency, apathy, and smug arrogance
versus
from what should be “positively ethical applied community ecologists/PEACE-makers” …
real systematic system change toward socio-ecological justice & caring in a humble ethos of “Less Is More”
and sharing toward equity–locally & globally
pbm
7 S’s / >^^