This Is My Story, and I Am Sticking to It

I stand pretty firm in my shout-out of the desperate need for all of us to focus on taking action as individuals and in global-group solidarity in the very most important areas listed in the photo immediately below (posted herein). Nevertheless, the complexities of diverse individual ethoses and wide variation of group-thinking (more often than […]

The Human Condition. MY HUMAN CONDITION!!! (Bless me Father for I HAVE sinned …)

“… What condition my condition was in I woke up this mornin’ with the sundown shinin’ inI found my mind in a brown paper bag withinI tripped on a cloud and fell an eight miles highI tore my mind on a jagged skyI just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in … […]

This Particular “Human”, Trump, … Is Certainly Not Good for a World of Quality Life for All Biota Which Might Continue to Include My Grandchildren and Other Humans

This IS a very messed up complicated Eaarth of too much (mis-/dis-)information, neoliberal capitalism/rampant entrepreneural business/consumerism & militaristic socio-ecological destruction!!! … and who really knows??? how these crazy MAGA-rolls of Trumpian-dice will play out in terms which of two definite routes WILL be taken: 1. that of maintaining the status quo of artificialization & destruction??? […]

Resilient, Sustainable Ecological Community (Quality Life for All!). Discussions in Seguin, Texas, U.S.A. Oct 20th (Columbus Hall) & Nov 2nd (Seguin Public Library), 2024

INTRODUCTION. Humans have been for some time and are currently … causing tremendous socio-ecological destruction at an unprecedented rate.  We’ve destroyed  climax natural ecological communities & rampantly replaced sustainable agrarian ecological communities, … and we have decimated … topsoil, … quality air … and quality water, … net primary productivity, … photosynthesizers & biodiversity … […]

salient points? from the life of insignificant? paul bain martin?

as journalists darren dunn, tess coody, & felicia frazer recently “de facto said” … and quite a few others in my life of 78 years (this month of november 2024) have pointed out i like most other individual humans or other life forms am relatively insignificant especially as a hog-farmer’s son, relatively superficial thinker with […]

the challenges … and the only real solution

A plethora of thoughts (just thoughts! & ideas!) this morning (10/27/2024) after an amazingly fantastic Ogallala Commons “Discovery Days” get-together of elders and energetic youth of the Commons … and just before entering into Betsy Hoffmann Martin & friends & colleagues’ Seguin Riverside Cemetery reenactments (Saints Alive!) of local historical figures (of whom I will […]

LASTING CAUTIOUS JOY … BUT ALSO UNFULFILLED DESIRES FOR EVEN MORE JOY (i.e., heaven on Eaarth)

i suppose like many i cannot be unhappy with my life … my heaven on Eaarth! STILL … I WISH I COULD KNOW GRANDKIDS WILLIAM HARVEY, ABIGAIL ELISE, AND IAN BAIN … …………………………………. hog farmer’s son, raised on a diversified five-acre place & largely formed in the mixed agricultural (good) multi-ethnic village of divine devine, […]