Author Archives: paulpeaceparables

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, […]

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->^^)

I’m not a fan of apathy or complacency … (and perhaps too much “religious prayer & mindless worship of all-powerful Gods, … i.e., traditional Gods & Bible-like books & Constitutions & Laws; Ann Ryn, Trump; neoliberal capitalism, ‘technology’, the stuff/glamour/chewing gums & opiates of the mind/power/fossil energy from transnational corporations, industrial ag, ‘organics’, ‘Holistic Management’; […]

Dad Alton Martin and his “Less Is More”*-ethos/way-of-life from the Depression … and late 1800s and early 1900s conservation-ethos/way-of-life from “G.I. Bill”-learning immediately after he came home from WW II was what, I think, influenced me the greatest in my personal-ethos/way-of-life (given to me through Dad’s genetics and epigenetic and environmental influences). Moreover, the villages […]

In my life …  o  from my early youth after birth in 1946, with the “War hymns” we learned as youth, o  the various holidays & events during the year telling us how Great we are & how “great we are when at War”,o  the Devine “War”horses, o  the Corps at A&M,o  watching glorified  WW II dogfights […]

A loved one who came into our “family life” more than twenty years ago “has hope” “knowing Gen Z will someday be in charge.” As a stupid knee-jerking contrarian, I could (& would) readily quarrel, using factual substance, with several aspects of this statement above. …………………… Some pensamentos … It is a small sample size […]

intelligent, open communication humility in interacting with all species avoid putting up walls, fences, borders practice pacifism blend as one

what might i BE if i were he or she or thee?????? rather than me? (mightier than a Sequoiadendron giganteum redwood tree?) ……………… “of course not!!!” i sort of say with glee … ’cause i wouldn’t be ME! pbm ( 7 Ss /VV->^^ )

I do feel shame for the harm my Catholic Church … and other Christian churches have done over the millineum (over time) to indigenous peoples and people of other persuasions … to folk who supposedly “don’t fit the norm” in many & varied ways–with respect to the Bible, religious doctrine/dogma/teachings/–with respect to what major religious […]