Sweet Devout Catholic … Teacher of Life Skills Toward Building Sustainable Social Fabric … Seamstress, Pig Castrator, Truck Driver … Mentor for Numerous Aggies (Lógicamente, ¡Una de las más queridas de mi vida!) New Braunfels. “Brown rocks which are ‘new’”. Mom Louise came from German town (Though the indigenous ones and Latinos Might beg to […]
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Ranting Inarticulate Voice in the Wilderness
I do fully realize that I am but a very, very, very, very insignificant (& inarticulate) voice in the wilderness who is tuned out even by my kids, other close family members, and friends. Nevertheless, … we would be much, much better off as humans and other species in this world–even in these times of […]
HE (Not SHE) Willed It! (???)
[Thoughts on a Long Bicycle Ride. March 24, 2020] Mom lost her Mom at nine years of age. Was it simply population dynamics and symbioses? Did it involve Free Will? Or was it “simply the Lord’s Will”? Let the philosophers and scientists decide. Brother Lawrence— One of the very best— Died way too soon. Was […]
Mom Was “Never” Ill!
Mom Louise Katherine Kneuper Martin Was never ill! Mom’s mother, Amalia, who was a Meurer (From Fredericksburg … Texas), Fought chronic illness And died at forty-nine … in 1934. Thusly, Mom, who was approaching ten Was forced to sacrifice and tough it out thereafter … • Through various “mom’s”, • Numerous schools— o At St. […]
Big Ideas! (Developed Immediately After I “Retired” in 2006) And Perhaps a Bit of Progress!??!
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 preached in the […]
Sunshine
I adore sunshine! But life is mostly water. We desperately need overcast skies And rain! Nevertheless, The sun gives the energy which binds, Which connects! I adore sunshine! ……………. pbm [ 7 Ss / VV->^^ ]
A Bicicleta
Engineers’ wonder glides me home. Two wheels, pedals. … People Power! O’er asphalted soil which was loam. Engineers’ wonder glides me home. Yields carefree living, worlds to roam. Mine an orange and blue flower. …… Engineers’ wonder glides me home. Two wheels, pedals. … People Power! ********************* pbm [ 7 Ss / VV->^^ ]
A Proposed Introduction to a Draft of a Heavily-Illustrated Little Book on Applied Ecology
And a little bird said: “Why? don’t you humans practice what you preach? … the Golden Rule … PEACE … Love … Humility.” Why? We Developed This Book! The sky is falling for some living things at various points in time in the universes and cosmos. This can be observed … through lens of the […]
Wendell Berry
We all must begin living sabiamente, simply, smally, slowly SHARINGLY, . . .SUSTAINABLY ! “To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration […]