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i feel compelled to discipline myself a bit and get some righteous thoughts up into the cloud and down on paper.   nevertheless, i am not so disciplined as to complete this task in compliance with the structured form of the assignment this week from Creekside Poets, which was ten lines, ten syllables per lines, […]

Coach Frank Wood died today, One of many friends in our adopted hometown of Seguin Who sorrowfully are passing with increasing frequency.   Frank needed me at times For companionship at a meal, To use our computer, or a ride. My needs include companionship And Coach Frank provided it And exercise and zeal Through his […]

good diversity, good natural dynamism is the beauty of our world. it is what i truly love.   i become warm and pacific when discovering some thing new and virtuous, which truly is always elderly and was always there.   innocently true beauty and innocently true love, always old and ubiquitous, but hidden for new […]

VOTE BIDEN-HARRIS. o I’ve been frustrated & angry about local & global social injustice ever since we had some agitating discussions w/ a nun in a 7th-grade Catholic catechism class in Devine, TX in the 1950s.  But never like now.  …  I feel a shame & a dirtiness that we elected Trump & enabled Trump […]

“How dare anyone cause harm to another soul, curtail their life or life’s potential, when our lives are so short to begin with?” From Caste. The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson   Skin colors Sexual orientations Cliques Cults Religions Class CASTES Tribes Nations Cultures Races1   It is “near impossible” to list all […]

Toward a Clean Sustainable Seguin … And an imagined conversation of a father (Pablo) and his oldest son (Jeremias) Jan 2007 (pbm) Enrolada*   Depression and Pinchot-wired parents taught us to conserve. 2007 Chosen People-fundamentalist preachers impel us to grab and rule the all that WE MOST CERTAINLY deserve.   Humility, frugality used to be […]

Browns to yellows to yellow-greens and mostly deep greens cover the life-giving, moist loam.   Leaf patterns seem infinite in attempts to effectively capture life-maintaining solar energy.   Innumerable leaves, and branches with leaves, jut out from St. Augustine, crape myrtles, persimmons, figs, thirteen pecan trees, and other flora in efforts to get their just […]

I think a lot about innocent children.  My poem this week herein paulpeaceparables.com for Seguin’s Creekside Poets focused to a large extent on sweet kids. As I watch and listen to a segment of Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War on PBS and think about Hiroshima, the anniversary of which was earlier this month on August 6th–I reflect on how […]

The basic clear-cut philosophy Of a Tom T. Hall Appeals to me.   “I love leaves in the wind, pictures of my friends, Birds of the world and squirrels. I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, Bourbon in a glass and grass. And I love you, too.”   “Ain’t but three things in […]