I as a child of the time it never rained1– in 29-inch annual rainfall medina county texas with a tremendous range around that mean meaning it can be as low as 10 inches annually– water, freshwater, fresh water is a first love fresh water is to a great extent my serious concern when I […]
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Serious Agenda?
In a sense, I am not that serious about life. We live and we die! I realize that in the whole scheme of things that I am very, very, very insignificant. And I love humor, teasing others, and being the butt of jokes. On the other hand, yes! I do have an agenda, […]
Primavera Normal … Incluindo na Época da Pandemia de Coronavirus
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 […]
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 […]