Oh sim! Com certeza.1 Spring, a primavera, is hands down my favorite normal seasonal experience each and every year. For sixty-two years in south and central Texas Spring has been sprinklings and blankets of beautiful petite copos de vinho, wine cups, Prickly poppies, phlox, Indian paintbrush, bluebonnets, evening primrose and so much more natural […]
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Life in Song
Life in song. (You cannot argue with a song.1 I don’t and I won’t!)— “I don’t doubt for a minute Someday we’ll all learn to start livin’ together We’ll fix all our mistakes … Someday we will But I wonder if the world can wait that long.”2 “I got a feelin’ called the […]
lovers ancestral/bird adventures over more than three hundred years (red grouse, bonilla’s eagle, shearwaters, petrels, passenger pigeons, mockingbirds, … and many more)
baked red Lagopus grouse were on their plates before they left their homeland from the port of lunderburh. shearwaters and petrels flew ‘round as they rocked westward on ocean trade winds and on ocean waves for the land named for the virgin queen. (later they rocked in wagons across land … for Lands … of […]
diversidade (uma tentativa inicial de organizar meus pensamentos por escrito)
estou quase conseguindo. mas é difícil (se) comunicar. ……………………….. diversity– but not the right kind of diversity (“right kind” is so hubristic, so very elitist, so artificial and anthropocentric)— diversity is more necessary, more desirable than equality or homogeneous excellence … in nature (dynamic homeostatic symbioses) in life, in livelihoods, in all ecological, economic, socio-political […]
Until the End of Time (Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe). Obrigado Brian Greene!
I used to love to run, run, run* and think, think, think. (I think???) Therefore … I was! (Or: … “I think I thought, therefore I think I was.”) …………………………. Running’s over. But still, I attempt to think. (I think.) I’m struggling to be. And “thinkingly” (maybe) I ponder What I was, What I […]
Cold “Snap-fus” (Thoughts on an Unusually Cold Winter Day in South Central Texas)
“Man that was cold.” “Wow! That IS cold!” Says my Historically-Black St. Philip’s College colleague Al Williams From Clean Seguin, Texas When he painfully reflects on Past treatment of fellow African-Americans Or recoils to events current. ………….. Cold! … So cold! Small mistakes with cold ambients Can result in a wondrous fluid situation Turning to […]
Demos, Democracy, … Transnational Corporations, and Militaries. Thoughts from a “Pig Farmer”
This (diversified) small hog farmer*/ag entomologist/wannabe “positively ethical applied community ecologist/PEACEmaker” believes there is generally groupthink across the globe because of a prevalence of de facto (neoliberal) capitalism, powerful transnational corporations spewing out effective negative (in terms of transition of Eaarth to a neo-Earth) propaganda**, and conspicuous consumerism including in our food systems … necessarily […]
amor
balmy weather and we’re together lovely greens, green, and greenery abound life-yielding moisture from soaking rains in topsoil-ground balmy weather and we’re together fresh color full flowers adorn the atmosphere a diversity of birds chirping delight the ear balmy weather sweet smells of early quasi-spring orally and in sweet sensitive noses begin […]
rapid-fire poems for creek-side poets, january 11th, 2021 “!#@%”
poem number one you bet!!!!!!! i can get it in gear and appear to exude cheer especially after a veneer of substantial beer poem number two ¡¡¡¡¡¡seguro que si!!!!!! i’d like to write something very upbeat and happy yet truly profound nevertheless the insignificance which comes forth now in this […]