My Personal (christmas) Ethos?

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 […]

WOKE

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 […]

This Is My Story, and I Am Sticking to It

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 […]

The Human Condition. MY HUMAN CONDITION!!! (Bless me Father for I HAVE sinned …)

“… 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 Particular “Human”, Trump, … Is Certainly Not Good for a World of Quality Life for All Biota Which Might Continue to Include My Grandchildren and Other Humans

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??? […]

Resilient, Sustainable Ecological Community (Quality Life for All!). Discussions in Seguin, Texas, U.S.A. Oct 20th (Columbus Hall) & Nov 2nd (Seguin Public Library), 2024

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 … […]

salient points? from the life of insignificant? paul bain martin?

as journalists darren dunn, tess coody, & felicia frazer recently “de facto said” … and quite a few others in my life of 78 years (this month of november 2024) have pointed out i like most other individual humans or other life forms am relatively insignificant especially as a hog-farmer’s son, relatively superficial thinker with […]