Author Archives: paulpeaceparables

it was a very good day today of fantastic sights & sounds leaves of beautifully bright yellows on various of grounds sunny and warm and nice but also giving needed rain and pleasantly cool without having to deal with even a bit of cold northern ice some little projects satisfactorily completed holiday season cards to […]

it is okay to pray and read the bible and other religious stuff and go to church and travel & hunt for fun and go to taylor swift concerts and attend a professional football game (including current university professional football games) … and buy a useless christmas gift on black friday (“buy nothing day”) … […]

My christianity is definitely not a Trumpian/Trumpster or Ted Cruz or Greg Abbott or Jair Bolsonaro or Viktor Orban Christianity! My christianity is more Franciscan, including Pope Franciscan! My christianity and christmas spirit is one not so much of prayer and being Blessed or Holy or church-going, but rather one of taking a strong visible […]

This December 2nd morning I am reading carefully through “Who Is Afraid of Degrowth?” by Celine Keller (over in Germany) … up on a hill in a late-1800s-Alsatian limestone home in Rio Medina, Texas (looking over the Medina Valley). (My wife Betsy is out in the pasture harvesting Whitetail deer venison.) ******** I guess I […]

I stand pretty firm in my shout-out of the desperate need for all of us to focus on taking action as individuals and in global-group solidarity in the very most important areas listed in the photo immediately below (posted herein). Nevertheless, the complexities of diverse individual ethoses and wide variation of group-thinking (more often than […]

I know some or all of you think I “lost it” long ago. Nevertheless, with so many around me my age or younger “losing it” or passing … I do think quite a bit about such happening to me (more completely) in the near future (0 to 20 years). I am certain that many of […]

“… What condition my condition was in I woke up this mornin’ with the sundown shinin’ inI found my mind in a brown paper bag withinI tripped on a cloud and fell an eight miles highI tore my mind on a jagged skyI just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in … […]

This IS a very messed up complicated Eaarth of too much (mis-/dis-)information, neoliberal capitalism/rampant entrepreneural business/consumerism & militaristic socio-ecological destruction!!! … and who really knows??? how these crazy MAGA-rolls of Trumpian-dice will play out in terms which of two definite routes WILL be taken: 1. that of maintaining the status quo of artificialization & destruction??? […]

INTRODUCTION. Humans have been for some time and are currently … causing tremendous socio-ecological destruction at an unprecedented rate.  We’ve destroyed  climax natural ecological communities & rampantly replaced sustainable agrarian ecological communities, … and we have decimated … topsoil, … quality air … and quality water, … net primary productivity, … photosynthesizers & biodiversity … […]