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Mother’s Day in South Central Texas, 2023

All you wonderful Mothers, and others: I do hope you have/had a HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!! (Nevertheless on this day of celebration of motherhood … as we ride/rode through Seguin heading for Rio in Medina Co., Texas, the home of the formative-years of smiling/loving [my love] Betsy & home of my 94-yr-old Mother-in-law who lives alone […]

Grandkid Memories … From the Past and Today/Grand Memories Which Will Stay

Forewords: “We were born before the windAlso, younger than the sun‘Ere the bonnie boat was wonAs we sailed into the mystic Hark now, hear the sailors crySmell the sea and feel the skyLet your soul and spirit flyInto the mystic Yeah, when that fog horn blowsI will be coming homeYeah, when that fog horn blowsI […]

paul vain’s/paul in vain’s IRREVERENCE … AND THE AMAZING RAY WILEY HUBBARD

In a poem inspired by one hero of mine, Waylon Gaddie … (By the way, a very fine Elder & laddie) … … In this “Poem of Hope. Prayer for Life-Sustaining Soft Power on Earth” 1 … I mention that the Lakota language is void of the harsh cursing words we genocidal-tending, species-eliminating, colonizing neoliberal-capitalistic […]

I Love Life, Have Had a Lucky One, and Feel No Real Guilt About Being a Fortunate Son … but I Do Make a Small Effort to “Give Back” … (My Fortune HAS Been Quite Different From the Focus of the Amazing Creedence Clearwater Song)

(45) Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son (Official Lyric Video) – YouTube Mom St. Louise, Dad, Roy Orbison, Uncle Peggy, Tony & Robert Cruz, Coach Gus, Ruth Allen, Mrs. Wilkinson & Belew, Lacy Haywood, Dr. Joe Schaffner, Pete Lingren, ELIZABETH FLORENCE HOFFMANN MARTIN (Betsy), Johnny Hoffmann, David Pimentel, Alton Sparks, Jeremy Bain, John Alton, Angela […]

MORE RANTS. (For My Loving Brothers et al.)

Obviously “Less Is More!” We must be advocates for and practitioners of degrowth. … (Moreover, “’Green’ growth is a ‘fantasy’ with ‘no empirical support.’” [Economic anthropologist Jason Hickel]) We DESPERATELY need “Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology”/PEACE across the curricula & campuses of all human organizational entities in order to realize critical thinking, decision-making, and appropriate […]

Ecological Learning ZOOM Meeting with Ogallala Commons. One Sustainability Thing (March 21, 2023)

Learning Call_03-21-23_Sustainability-Video.mp4 – Google Drive Small Steps in Sustainability OC Call Resources 3-21-2023 – Google Drive This was a rewarding learning process for me to facilitate … and an honor. (And tonight, April 18, 2023 it happens again with Blaze Diamond, regional Coordinator for Ogallala Commons Staff – Ogallala Commons doing the facilitating!) **************************** My […]

simplistic overview of a human condition here on eaarth, 2023

i am happy … many of us humans are relatively comfortable and satisfied my immediate family & extended family and friends are relatively contented … they have considerable power … especially the whites, the anglos, the males, the heterosexuals, the Haves, the U.S. citizens, … “the Blessed” ………………………… but what about those necessarily leaving their […]