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I adore sunshine! But life is mostly water. We desperately need overcast skies And rain! Nevertheless, The sun gives the energy which binds, Which connects! I adore sunshine! ……………. pbm [ 7 Ss / VV->^^ ]

Engineers’ wonder glides me home. Two wheels, pedals. … People Power! O’er asphalted soil which was loam. Engineers’ wonder glides me home. Yields carefree living, worlds to roam. Mine an orange and blue flower. …… Engineers’ wonder glides me home. Two wheels, pedals. … People Power! ********************* pbm [ 7 Ss / VV->^^ ]

And a little bird said: “Why? don’t you humans practice what you preach? … the Golden Rule … PEACE … Love … Humility.” Why? We Developed This Book! The sky is falling for some living things at various points in time in the universes and cosmos. This can be observed … through lens of the […]

We all must begin living sabiamente, simply, smally, slowly SHARINGLY, . . .SUSTAINABLY ! “To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration […]

In the 1970s, ecologist David Pimentel introduced me to energetics of agricultural and world systems. Then while at the University of Florida, H.T. Odum piqued my interest. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1815769.Food_Energy_and_Society https://www.resilience.org/stories/2005-01-01/prosperous-way-down/ Shortly after these interactions with Drs. Pimentel and Odum, I became aware of similar work (and comparable resultant conclusions) from Texan, Rice University graduate, and (later) […]

Tuesday, I saw grocery cart after grocery cart after grocery cart after grocery cart … of white plastic bags roll out of HEB, Seguin, Texas. (It was on a Tuesday, but it could have been any day.) GIVE IT UP!!! ……………………… Wait! This humble, humbling attempt at a work of art for Creekside Poets in […]

In especially trying times … durante la gran y larga sequía en los Estados Unidos en la década de 1950, the terrible southwestern drought of the fifties … it felt particularly satisfying to drag my young but experienced and leathery bare feet through the warm deep Devine sand while traversing my little niche of south […]

Recycling mineral resources takes energy which in being produced and used causes pollution and environmental degradation (recycling-is-not-the-ultimate-answer principle). To reduce resource waste and resource supply interruptions, get as much as possible of what we need locally, and dispose of or recycle wastes locally (principle of localism). Stress the use of perpetual and renewable resources and […]

Yes fifty years of one Quihi-Love. Twenty-four and eighteen they meet on the Quihi dance floor. The lighter wood was there. The Johnny Hoffmann smile, a somewhat revealing blouse, alcohol, great music and smooth tight dancing … Sparks ignited a bright enduring flame. A young bull and a heifer with hormones flowing. Or perhaps young […]