Rough Ideas for 2-wks & 1-month of Travel in Brasil, January & February, 2022 paul & Betsy Martin (Idéias básicas para um mês de viagem no Brasil, janeiro e fevereiro de 2022)

16h45 13 de janeiro Chegada RIO (Viagem a Ouro Preto por um dia) 13-19 (Visite amigos no Rio) 19 de janeiro para São Paulo 20-22 (Visite os Mustafas) [23 de janeiro Betsy volta ao Rio e deixará o Rio às 22h25, 26 de janeiro] 23 de janeiro paul para Novo Hamburgo  24-25 (Visite Alvaro Kessler, […]

Death After Death. Thoughts As I Listen to Paul Auster Read About Crane’s Red Badge of Courage on C-SPAN Today

after quasi-suffocation unto death with an avalanche of seven foot of cottonseed hulls what if don lawrence had driven around the block several times in 1964 rather than having rushed me in devine town’s ambulance & “temporary hearse” to doc’ peters’ clinic and then Santa Rosa in SA?   after an accidently self-administered lethal dose […]

Recent (2021) Presentations to the St. Philip’s College Community Concerning Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology/PEACE/& PEACEmaking

SPC Science & Technology Institute Present “Enough for Everyone” Webinar – YouTube SPC : Earth Day | Alamo Colleges pbm 7 S’s / VV->^^    

Notes to a Dear Friend Stimulated by a Recent Tom Friedman NYT Article Concerning COP 26

Opinion | The Climate Summit Has Me Very Energized, and Very Afraid – The New York Times (nytimes.com) 1.  Thanks so much Marvel!!!  I had not seen this Friedman article re COP26!  … I do cherish our friendship, your love, & our collaborations … Siempre!  And rolling through my mind now are: a. a possible […]

(Moral & Ethical) Individual and Collective Management of COVID-19

I’ve been around many Trumpsters, folk to the right of the political spectrum, anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers in the past few days who have been promoting, proposing, demonstrating, discussing their “knowledge” of “TRUTHS” about the COVID-19 “conspiracy” and/or unproven treatments … and even snake oils. I wish that I could justify diving into and thoroughly studying […]

In The New Yorker, November 1, 2021. A Call to Appropriate Local & Global Action. “The Nutmeg’s Curse”

paul bain martin lives in a different world than most, where he sees disparity, overshoot, and drawdown of the natural resource base as serious challenges to a dynamic homestatic symbioses (‘nature”) conducive to quality life for Homo sapiens.  He aches for a time in the few years left in his life-time in which there will […]

pablo’s everlasting halloween (and more of the scene)

(in the crazed quest for more behind walls and in ecologically costly vehicles mesmerized by corporate propaganda from the pcs  smartphones  androids  and the likes stuff! we are too occupied  hypnotized  complacent  foggy-minded with self-induced ignorance to listen  to think  to act  to be humane beings … social justice?  ecological justice?  address global climate change?  […]