Toward a Clean Sustainable Seguin … And an imagined conversation of a father (Pablo) and his oldest son (Jeremias) Jan 2007 (pbm) Enrolada* Depression and Pinchot-wired parents taught us to conserve. 2007 Chosen People-fundamentalist preachers impel us to grab and rule the all that WE MOST CERTAINLY deserve. Humility, frugality used to be […]
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Looking Out from Our Front Porch Steps Near Downtown Seguin, Texas at Two in the Afternoon, Late August, 2020
Browns to yellows to yellow-greens and mostly deep greens cover the life-giving, moist loam. Leaf patterns seem infinite in attempts to effectively capture life-maintaining solar energy. Innumerable leaves, and branches with leaves, jut out from St. Augustine, crape myrtles, persimmons, figs, thirteen pecan trees, and other flora in efforts to get their just […]
Message to My Adult Relatives and Friends: “Children, Innocence, and Ecology”
I think a lot about innocent children. My poem this week herein paulpeaceparables.com for Seguin’s Creekside Poets focused to a large extent on sweet kids. As I watch and listen to a segment of Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War on PBS and think about Hiroshima, the anniversary of which was earlier this month on August 6th–I reflect on how […]
Values
The basic clear-cut philosophy Of a Tom T. Hall Appeals to me. “I love leaves in the wind, pictures of my friends, Birds of the world and squirrels. I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, Bourbon in a glass and grass. And I love you, too.” “Ain’t but three things in […]
Civilization: Perceptions and Reality
Three “Civilized” Perceptions. Britannica, land of hope and glory. Belgium, for freedom and law. United States of America, where the flag stands for freedom. Reality. “You can best serve civilization By being against What usually passes for it.” So says Wendell Berry … And we should all agree! If could be that many […]
An Appropriate Process. Nihilism? … No!
Conception and life. … With sex. Without. We begin. We sense. And we learn. Still with so very much nil. Fathomless mystery. At times it frustrates. But keep LIVING! And learning. Life’s goal? Care!!! ************** pbm ( 7 S’s / VV->^^ )
Despondent Frustrations
Pretenses are that we so love and adore the poor and humble Jesus of Nazareth Who persevered for thirty-three years in a struggle for social justice. Yet, in socially and ecologically destructive behaviors and lifestyles, We drive our big pick ‘em up trucks and SUVs, Live in big luxurious air-conditioned homes Eat industrial Haber-Bosch foods […]
Water Ecology … with Generations Indigenous Ways, Pine Ridge Reservation, 2020
Water is wet. It makes me sweat. Sweat helps keep me cool, on this you can bet. Lakotas deserve an abundance of quality water; let’s check for appropriate macroinvertebrates with our trusty aquatic net. No Uncle Waylon. Global warming has not covered Texas again with that what’s wet. Not yet. Yes. To Lakota Land we’ll […]
Saudades … e Sacanagen!!!
saudades (deep, deep heart- and soul-felt connection and homesickness; melancholy yearning) i have a love for o Brasil like no other place it’s blending of peoples, brazilian portuguese (the singing phrases of the nortestinos; the “sh, sh, sh” of cariocas, o povo adoráveis de Rio Janeiro; the “(a)rs” of the mato grossenses; the “trems” of […]