cheerful and upbeat … and she could take the heat learned in a pragmatic way of living … moreover, she was always giving a bit insecure like most all of us … but not one to fuss ready to dive into really living life … florence never really sweat the strife ……… simple country life […]
Author Archives: paulpeaceparables
Neoliberal Capitalism, Consumerism … Continuing Rampant Artificialization of Eaarth
i’m sorry (VERY SORRY, very sad, and very disappointed) but if you are not sickened by the terrible artificialization of the ecosphere then you are sick … and sorry Love, pbm ( 7 S’s / VV->^^ )
Ignoring, Or Ignorance of: the Golden Rule/Natural Law/Basic Ecological Principles, Processes, & Values of Sustainability
I am an early baby boomer (born 11/24/1946) with genetics/epigenetics of and upbringing from very humble, frugal, not very captitalistic depression-influenced parents as well as the environmental influences of Vatican II, the civil rights & ecological movements, the Vietnam War & pacifist activism, and fantastic music, song, & poetry of the middle 1950s-1970s and current […]
Critically Thinking and Acting Toward Quality Life for All Including Other Species
o Given our individual & collective knowledge of ecological principles & practices, and our values, in relative solidarity we must individually and collectively make decisions for the good of all based on the monitored conditions of the various wholes/sub-wholes of the ecosphere (Eaarth/Earth; Nature, the Land, the Commons; ecological communities; the natural resource base; human […]
“Pride and Prejudice” … Naw! … Herein It Is “Humility vs. Pride”
From what I’ll call “a separate discussion by ‘A Crazy Five’ on text-Messaging by Google”:………… In biology/ecology and other fields we talk of “lumpers & splitters.” I am first & foremost a lumper. (Of course with continued discourse I begin to split & split & split until we get lost in the trees & understory […]
Ken (big brother perspective, i.e., paul bain martin Truths)
Ken, a youngest male sibling who struggled with asthma and sibling rank (and who also struggled with other forces from his genetics and epigenetics and south central texas formative environment) was relatively spoiled (dad alton even left work at the mill and rode hurriedly in his green bobtail hog truck to devine high to tear […]
failure to communicate
they will never understand me they haven’t a clue and perhaps never will especially those who ban, block, shun, scarlet-letter, burn, trash it, build walls & stretch barbed wire, lock their minds to ecological learning,*… ………………………….. i will never understand them and probably never will ……………………………. and on & on & on & on … […]
Input Into the 2023 Farm Bill. Presentations to Local Government Entities in the Seguin, Texas Area (October 2023)
(This is a compilation of three similar presentations I prepared in October of 2023 for important local governmental entities in my home of Seguin and Guadalupe County, Texas) Introduction. Thank you, Judge Kyle Kutsher and County Commissioners, Mayor Donna Dodgen and Seguin City Council members, President Alejandro Guerra and Seguin ISD Trustees … and all […]
I’m “Simply” Trying to Be a Decent Applied Ecologist (My Daddy Made Me Do It!)
“The apple doesn’t far from the tree” I am to a large extent my Dad Alton Martin of a determined mind, of focus, of a very tough love, And of some intellect, knowledge, wisdom, prudence Like Dad I am relatively low-input, -throughput, -output My flaws & frailties have been very similar to Dad’s Loving family […]