Author Archives: paulpeaceparables

Study histories, social systems, anthropology, ecology. Look around. Perform “rapid appraisals”1 Locally and globally. Capitalism has torn social fabrics In China, India, Africa And of indigenous peoples In the Americas And all over the globe. Relatively non-regulated, neo-liberal capitalism (Embodied by Donald Trump, And the major reason Trump should not be looked to as a […]

I have many dreams I think Especially while I am awake.1 (Perhaps that is all I do. … Dream! It aggravates others. But it doesn’t bother me much.) Last night it was of the sparkling, dancing eyes Of Esmeralda Santos Ramirez The mother of Yony and Rafael Martinez, Grandmother of mi compadre Luis Romero’s wife […]

Soy gallina. … I chickened out this very week ! Simply because … There were a few disruptions of PEACE In Managua … At time when the whole Eaarth is disrupted And desperately needs empathy and healing. I missed the opportunity To work in Totogalpa, Nicaragua At another level With a very real, knowledgeable, and […]

“We are much better [off] than we were 250 years ago.” from a friend I dearly love (in spite of his Eaarth*-denial). ………………… “We … (are much better [off]”) … Is ME! “‘I’ am much better [off].” … Not WE. Not those of potentially-wonderful, life-teeming organic topsoil Covered with asphalt and concrete And massive edifices […]

(Elicited from self … and more, much more … Siguatepeque, Comayagua, Honduras, Eaarth, June 2, 2019)   Saudades … For Betsy. For William, Ian Bain, and Abby (Deep saudades In part brought forth by chicos/ Hijos of the same age Of Yony Martinez, Victor Matute, Blake Peurifoy, … .), For Lane and Owen, For Amelia […]

When is enough … enough!??! ?Para mi? ?Para familia? For my tribe? For my locale? For a Trumpian EEUU. For the bloated Haves on this Eaarth. pbm 6/2/2019 [ 7Ss / VV->^^ ]

Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam. Memento pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris. We place you dark one Gently into Walnut Creek. A ceremony, a ritual. (These human acts can be good.) Plunge into the soothing water. Forget about differences which pain. Rock … Meld as one In time, space, all […]

Agrilogistics*–“It’s an agricultural program that has been running without much change–only upgrades to more intense versions of itself–since about 10,000BC, when it began at the start of the (warmer) Holocene. The basic elements of the program are: settle down (stop hunter-gathering), farm grains. There is an implicit logic to this program. Sometimes it’s directly stated, […]

“The action that has meaning for the living has value only for the dead, finds completion only in the consciousness that inherit and question.”1   THE LAW The Second Law of Thermodynamics?2 There is no free ride, no free lunch. Energy cannot be recycled. There will be no … … No perpetual motion machine! As […]