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I can’t move! I cannot move at all! I can’t move!! “Gene!” “Gene!!!” “Oh my God, I am heartedly sorry …” And then shortly after I had barely begun my act of contrition, it was total mental darkness and total silence! I went blank. …………………………………………………………………….. I’d completed all my responsibilities at the little feed lot […]

It was a cold, wet windy winter Sunday in the Devine area of south-central Texas. “Come on outside with me Paul Bain! We’re going to take some firewood into town.” Under Dad’s direction, I chopped some oak wood alongside him, loaded it into the green 6-cylinder bobtail truck which was normally his ride to work […]

https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/axial-shift-the-decline-of-trump-the-rise-of-the-greens-and-the-new-coordinates-of-societal-b0bde2613a9e?fbc https://medium.com/thebeammagazine/why-a-transition-to-clean-energy-alone-is-not-enough-for-a-sustainable-future-35eee2ac9901 https://www.aau.at/en/social-ecology/research/social-metabolism/ …………………………………………………………………………………… I’m not overly bright, but what I’ve learned over my 72 years is fairly simple for most anyone to figure out, and especially the energetic and intelligent young ones in today’s world.  (Of course it doesn’t mean that we have the morals & ethics, and intestinal fortitude-individually and collectively–to do so […]

  We the people of today’s artificially capitalistic-, socialistic-, and fascistic-leaning tribes drink varying flavors of toxic Kool-Aid. This is a route to extinction for all (except for the extremophiles), i.e., these high-input, artificial Kool-Aid-sustenances and -connectors are not sustainable. I propose that we slow down, meet together in ritualistic and traditional ways, struggle to […]

“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 we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.” Wendell Berry […]

Another Developing Addition for the Little Book on Applied Ecology: “Let’s Ban Plastic Bags Locally All Over the World!” by p.b. martin This piece is about disposable plastic bags and rectifying at least this one aspect of our downright sinful ways. And I do wish to make it clear from the outset, that despite these […]

Presentation/Readings for the Friends of the Seguin Public Library event, Community Meeting Room-Seguin Public Library, 10 am-12 noon, September 8, 2018 paul bain martin PEACE?/Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology?  …  Sunday, Labor Day Weekend.  I very much appreciated the community’s “coming together” (but those gathered were mostly Mexican-Americans) at the Seguin-Guadalupe County Coliseum & grounds […]

[These stories will follow an illustration dealing with biodiversity, food webs, and connectiveness in the little book on applied ecology, Games We Play.] During a political dinner one evening I sat across from an older couple who were discussing in some scientific detail the life cycles and movement patterns of the hackberry feeder, the American […]

Games We Play: More Than 200,000 Years of Living Truthfully* & of Searching for Truth** (*200,000-15,000 BCE **5,000-Present).  This is a “final draft” of several of the ca. 50 images on which Laura Salazar and my wife Elizabeth Martin are working.  Click once on the image and it will enlarge, or twice for it enlarging […]