Author Archives: paulpeaceparables

TRULY SEEING THE FORESTS VS. BEING MESMERIZED BY THE TREES. Flimflam artists and hucksters like Trump, Joel Osteen, Musk, Bezos, Greg Abbott … and even relatively honest “knowledgeable” scientific specialists can wrongfully manipulate our individual and collective minds away from the reality of our socio-ecological justice battles … with the diversity of information/misinformation/disinformation and negative […]

Good! Yes there are some good people1 in this old world. Yes, good music2 and art does make life worth living. Yes, “I love you grandpa!” from the likes of Owen; the energy and upbeat joy of Amelia, Lane, Landon and all of the grandkids, and their amazing intelligence, are injections of very much good […]

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 […]