Author Archives: paulpeaceparables

I’m hopeful And will steadfastly act to elect a woman and progressive. I will be obsessive To help with a slate which can be Truthfully memorable. It should be a piece of cake given this “president” who is a fake, And a snake* we all know is on the take. But I fear my dear […]

Poetry? Como é?1 Louise Kneuper’s Catholic prayers? “Hail Mary, … full of grace, … the Lord is with thee.” A Jimmie Rodgers song? “Rather drink muddy water And sleep in a hollow log Than to be in Atlanta Treated like a dirty dog.”2 E.O.Wilson and consilience? “We are not predestined to reach any goal, Nor […]

Kiaugh. Search for a palavra2, a word, previously unknown Mandates our facilitator of poetry, Says the lovely and loving learned speaker of French, The caring polyglot. … Maybe search for Latin-derived English words? What about uma palavra em ingles Similar (in letters used) to “palavra”!?! … Or maybe to “saudades” (deep blues for something lost)? […]

Foreign Affairs is always good, but I especially appreciated this March/April 2019 Issue.  Below are a few tidbits. From “This Is Your Brain on Nationalism.  The Biology of Us and Them” by Robert Sapolsky (You have to read his Behave. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/09/behave-by-robert-sapolsky-review ): “Sometimes the very foundation of affection and cooperation are also at the root […]

Written piece seen in Adbusters, Vol. 27, No. 2.  https://www.adbusters.org/ :   “If we look into our lives, we will see clearly how many unimportant tasks, so-called responsibilities accumulate to fill them up. … We tell ourselves we want to spend time on the important things of life, but there never is any time. Even […]

I do recognize that the U.S.A. has a history of original and on-going sins of: genocide of indigenous peoples, slavery, manifest destiny / expansionism / neo-liberal capitalism / related War, and rampant ecological destruction of native ecosystems involving southern longleaf pines, plains grasslands, coastal estuaries, various wetlands, karst springs, kelp forests, etc.. Moreover, I also […]

Introduction to “Living in the Future’s Past” Earth Day 2019, Public Library, Seguin, Texas No voté por esta biblioteca. Queria dos … menores. But I do appreciate it In numerous ways. … Books, the cellulosic (or—now–electronic) elixir of life. Informative presentations. Its beauty. Its wonderful people. Challenging educational activities … For the novices, For the […]

The tribes, bubbles, and cliques in which we live and the walls of isolation we work hard to construct and maintain (oftentimes unknowingly) prevent communication and hinder development of empathy, respect, and solidarity.1 It is comfortable to hob-nob in the familiarity of: English (as a language, culture, tribe, or nation), shooting trophy bucks or catching […]

https://hightowerlowdown.org/ In hopes of securing my former boss and a colleague from Jim Hightower’s Texas Department of Agriculture for a panel discussion of local water quality issues, regulation, and enforcement here in the Guadalupe County area, in Mass one recent Sunday I began to think about how I first knew about Jim Hightower, and what […]