A plethora of thoughts (just thoughts! & ideas!) this morning (10/27/2024) after an amazingly fantastic Ogallala Commons “Discovery Days” get-together of elders and energetic youth of the Commons … and just before entering into Betsy Hoffmann Martin & friends & colleagues’ Seguin Riverside Cemetery reenactments (Saints Alive!) of local historical figures (of whom I will […]
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LASTING CAUTIOUS JOY … BUT ALSO UNFULFILLED DESIRES FOR EVEN MORE JOY (i.e., heaven on Eaarth)
i suppose like many i cannot be unhappy with my life … my heaven on Eaarth! STILL … I WISH I COULD KNOW GRANDKIDS WILLIAM HARVEY, ABIGAIL ELISE, AND IAN BAIN … …………………………………. hog farmer’s son, raised on a diversified five-acre place & largely formed in the mixed agricultural (good) multi-ethnic village of divine devine, […]
Preparation for & Possible Introduction to Sustainability Discussions on October 20th & November 2, 2024 in Seguin, Texas
(Presentations to Local Governmental Entities Concerning Upcoming Sustainable Ecological Community Discussions, 10/20 & 11/2/2024 It does distress me greatly that so many in very levels of power, and the populace, or demos, which voted them in, have so much ignorance of ecological principles & processes, & appropriate values … and thusly some of the most […]
2024. The State of Eaarth, “Enjoying” Comforts within, and Improving It All for All (aka “The Golden Rule”) for the Immediate and Long-Term Future
Eaarth* in 2024 “Common sense” observations and soft and hard science tell us … o Ignorance is bliss but dangerous. That ignorance is very dangerous is particularly true when dealing with lack of profoundly holistic ecological knowledge. We must begin to have principles, processes, and values of applied ecology across curricula and campuses of all […]
Solid Thoughts Re PEACE/Resilient, Sustainable Ecological Community While Bicycling Around Seguin, Texas Today, August 8th, 2024
“Small Is Beautiful!” (E.F. Schumacher) “Less Is More!” (Jason Hickel) “Steady-State Economics.” (Herman Daly) “Moral Human Beings and Moral Society.”(Reinhold Niebuhr) rather than “Growth-Economics.” ……………………………. every “excessive” … mile that you travel, especially by air or automoble or cruise ship, number of electic or gasoline cars you own/operate, personal recreational, private defensive, or military gun, […]
Uncle Oscar Bain and How He Helped Influence Me Toward Pacifism & Antimilitarism & Disarmament (and Gun Control)
My namesake, Uncle Bain was killed 21 months before I was born. However, family stories about him and his calls for peace in his letters during World War II did greatly impact me.
A Focus on Degrowth & Socio-Ecological Justice. A New Profoundly-Holistic Golden Rule for Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology/PEACEmaking
https://xueyingyingxue.substack.com/p/roy-morrisons-a-new-golden-rule-for https://degrowth.info/en/blog/book-review-less-is-more-how-degrowth-will-save-the-world-by-jason-hickel I am sort of “trying” to not do “this” so much (i.e., posting of the sort of very sad Truths like that in the URLs far below). … Nevertheless, I do wish folk would truly begin to be very aware of our various processes of destruction of “a dynamic homeostatic symbioses including humans”, […]
Thoughts Up on the Llano Estacado and Nearby during a Trip from TX to SD to NM & Back to Texas (We Were Doing Ecological Activities Up in Yellow Bear Canyon, Pine Ridge Reservation)
Passing through the agricultural area around Lamesa, Texas on our way home to Seguin, Texas from Yellow Bear Canyon, Pine Ridge Reservation & Santa Fe, NM (7/2/2024). ******** More than 60 years ago, my brother Lawrence Alton and I did support work for several summers during our high school-years … in the growing, harvest, processing, […]
“All Education Is Ecological Education!” (Paraphrased from David Orr)
We desperately need “‘positively’ ethical applied community ecology”/PEACEmaking across curricula & campuses of all human organizational entities on Eaarth (principles & processes of ecology and appropriate values, critical thinking, decision-making, action & practices … short- & long-term). paul bain martin ( 7 Ss / VV->^^)