Author Archives: paulpeaceparables

there’s a special peace here in mom’s room in her home our home in divine devine this easter day   divine devine a place of special texas wildflowers and wonderful april warmth   i do not wish to leave the bedside of such an always peaceful saint   this peace, her peace, will never be […]

lessons learned or that should be learned by me and kenny perhaps not learned by me or many or hardly any   marine corps dad taught me … War arms, armaments, preemptive or retaliatory … vengeful … strikes War! War is not worth it War … begets War   War does beget War!   Mom […]

I as a child of the time it never rained1– in 29-inch annual rainfall medina county texas with a tremendous range around that mean meaning it can be as low as 10 inches annually– water, freshwater, fresh water is a first love   fresh water is to a great extent my serious concern when I […]

In a sense, I am not that serious about life. We live and we die! I realize that in the whole scheme of things that I am very, very, very insignificant.   And I love humor, teasing others, and being the butt of jokes.   On the other hand, yes! I do have an agenda, […]

Oh sim!  Com certeza.1 Spring, a primavera, is hands down my favorite normal seasonal experience each and every year.   For sixty-two years in south and central Texas Spring has been sprinklings and blankets of beautiful petite copos de vinho, wine cups, Prickly poppies, phlox, Indian paintbrush, bluebonnets, evening primrose and so much more natural […]

Life in song. (You cannot argue with a song.1 I don’t and I won’t!)—   “I don’t doubt for a minute Someday we’ll all learn to start livin’ together We’ll fix all our mistakes … Someday we will But I wonder if the world can wait that long.”2   “I got a feelin’ called the […]

  baked red Lagopus grouse were on their plates before they left their homeland from the port of lunderburh. shearwaters and petrels flew ‘round as they rocked westward on ocean trade winds and on ocean waves for the land named for the virgin queen. (later they rocked in wagons across land … for Lands … of […]

estou quase conseguindo. mas é difícil (se) comunicar. ……………………….. diversity– but not the right kind of diversity (“right kind” is so hubristic, so very elitist, so artificial and anthropocentric)— diversity is more necessary, more desirable than equality or homogeneous excellence … in nature (dynamic homeostatic symbioses) in life, in livelihoods, in all ecological, economic, socio-political […]

I used to love to run, run, run* and think, think, think. (I think???) Therefore … I was! (Or: … “I think I thought, therefore I think I was.”) …………………………. Running’s over. But still, I attempt to think. (I think.) I’m struggling to be.   And “thinkingly” (maybe) I ponder What I was, What I […]