Baby spinach from El Valle Central. What tries to pass for bacon from imprisoned animal intellects of Carolina. A bit of reconstituted poultry from Georgia. Way too much plastic from the Saudis. Maybe more than 30 kilocalories invested for less that one ingested. Even less digested. (And metabolized???) Un poco de vitaminas y minerales. ¡Pero […]
Author Archives: paulpeaceparables
Chula Ya Era/Belleza del Pasado: Observations Near the Greyhound Bus Station in Big D, 2015
She was a pachuca, a chola. Young living at a fast pace; wild, wicked, reckless. Cruces on her hands and tattoos up her limbs. … But the wine and dope and years wore her down. Now she is truly lost. La belleza que era aimlessly wanders the downtown parks of this bustling business town. La […]
Important Ecological Connections, With a Focus on Our Insect Friends (Some Excerpts from “Voice of the Infinite”)
Joanne Lauck (Voice of the Infinite) believes “that the microcosm reflects the macrocosm”. We humans create a “hostile world”. We teach prejudice. … Moreover, “there are real reasons why we mistrust and fear insects. Few have much to do with the actual insect. Most involve misperceptions about them and about ourselves, and are tied to […]
The Second Law: Indoor Vertical Farming and Google
Though he tried–in the clutter of conventional capitalism, commerce, materialism, and consumption; artificially manipulated high-speed electrons and electromagnetic waves (and many, many algorithms); and other aspects of an “invisibley handled”, high-input/-throughput world system– Páv?los had trouble getting the real attention of even family and friends closest to him. Moreover, although David Orr pointed out in […]
Respect
After publication in the Seguin Gazette, the following (with somewhat of a focus on Seguin, Texas) was posted in 2014 on Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/paul.b.martin.54/allactivity ) and Banned Books Cafe ( http://bannedbookscafe.blogspot.com/2014/08/respectecological-justice.html ). A version of this is also in our book Games We Play by paul martin ( https://www.kite.pub/sustainability/games-we-play ). I wish I had included a statement […]
Sustainable Community Gardening (in South Central Texas)
Thoughts toward realizing a sustainable community garden: Most important– o Visit other community gardens in the area and in other regions-Learn from others o “Institutionalization”-Make the garden an integral part of a truly sustainable community organization/entity … and over time, make it a part of a dynamic local foodshed/hub o Steering committee-Set up a formal, […]
Sustainability Forum, San Antonio
I was working on a small “paulpeaceparable” to end all paulpeaceparables (Yeah, right!!) for today’s (6/23/15) “Sustainability Forum” at the HBG Convention Center in SA, when our home computer became nonfunctional (Son John Alton is currently reviving it.). Therefore, I haven’t been able to get into the file in which I was working … on […]
Solidarność?*
Solidarno??. Solidaridad. Solidarity. Solidarity. … Solidarity!!! Can we all agree that we want a better world for all–psychologically, socially, ecologically … and unite in some sort of imperfect solidarity toward that end? With Lech Wa??sa, … Pope Francis, Dalai Lama, Jimmy Carter, and Tegla Loroupe. … With family and dear friends, in my case: Elizabeth […]
LITTLE THINGS WE CAN DO TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD
Eat healthy and exercise regularly. (Truly integrate this into your workday and lifestyle.) Experience the real world—your yard, open fields, farms, ranches, parks—and stay away from TV, computers, cell phones, video games & other electronic gadgetry. Get physically, intellectually & spiritually in touch with Nature, the Land, Community and People (the very young and Elders). […]