Born in 1946 after my Marine Dad arrived from the Pacific Theater in the beginning of the neoliberal heyday and boom after World War II … my (paul bain martin’s) Vatican II-period upbringing and the civil rights, ecological, and anti-War movements of the 1960’s and 70’s resulted in a profound and holistic positive-ecological mindset and […]
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Some Bits Concerning Sustainability
1. Some new slogans I will work on for “memes” to be used by a highly-respected local partner in crime: a. “First Do No Harm!!!” An admirable, righteous guideline for very focused or more profoundly holistic (Eaarth) health care folk. But it is almost impossible to realize.(That is why it is imperative to be very […]
Pope Francis et al. Laudato Si’ Movement
I, like Pope Francis & all of humanity, am VERY flawed. But based on 50+ years of experiences in what I now call “positively ethical applied community ecology/PEACE,” I do what I believe I can & fervently believe I MUST! for socio-ecological justice. I’m on this Health Care/Earth Care-Webinar with the Laudato Si’ movement now, […]
“Not Good Company and Plastics” and “The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Plastics are on my mind, floods. Any pausein the conversation, I come up with someSorry Business, Aboriginal term for mourning.Doleful, that’s me, no small talk, not unpleasant,but my idea of intimate is apt to be someterrible statistic. I can’t say Susanis feeling better or Eileen’s arm is mendingwithout adding but she has a preexisting conditionor […]
Good but naive Chris, “paul, will Nicaragua ever get its act together?” paul, “The proper question, Chris, is: ‘Will the neoliberal transnational corporate-capitalistic/militaristic U.S. (the most powerful nation on the globe greedily sucking much more than a lion’s share of resources from south of the Tropic of Cancer) ever get its act together?'”
I must “retort” to “ugly” smug, hubristic, “Christian ameericuns” that: o There were the toxic acts of turning-over Nicaraguan anti-enslavement laws and other disruptions of the shenanigans of U.S. imperialist William Walker, and the Filibuster War in 1855 … and other Yankee mischiefs before and after that time. o The U.S.A. used Marine military-invasions and […]
Thoughts On a Summer Sunday in Seguin, Texas … Related to Socio-Ecological Justice, Resilient/Sustainable Ecological Community, Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology/PEACE
TRULY SEEING THE FORESTS VS. BEING MESMERIZED BY THE TREES. Flimflam artists and hucksters like Trump, Joel Osteen, Musk, Bezos, Greg Abbott … and even relatively honest “knowledgeable” scientific specialists can wrongfully manipulate our individual and collective minds away from the reality of our socio-ecological justice battles … with the diversity of information/misinformation/disinformation and negative […]
The Good … and the Bad and the Ugly. … And the Good!
Good! Yes there are some good people1 in this old world. Yes, good music2 and art does make life worth living. Yes, “I love you grandpa!” from the likes of Owen; the energy and upbeat joy of Amelia, Lane, Landon and all of the grandkids, and their amazing intelligence, are injections of very much good […]
fizzling away
sure!!!! “at the end of the day,” as they often say, homo sapiens will fizzle away my department chair, dr. william conan davis, a man i respected he was almost always objective and not subjective we discussed much; and, dr. davis did sometimes express his dislike for my use of the term “fizzle” even if […]
love for each other … and some hate of the perceived actions of others
love hate love of enemies, family, friends … a son, a brother, or a mate (or a dove) it wasn’t their or my or their or my or their or my fault that sometimes it continued and grew beautifully, sometimes there was a halt we came together … … or drifted apart the mind, the […]