Local ecological problems, and issues which should be dealt with when profoundly & holistically resolving these challenges, are generally a microcosm of global challenges. Here in our Seguin, Texas area, a landfill proposed for development over the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer was one such challenge. And very recently the local political activity resulting from the proposed permanent […]
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Ecological Prudence, Morals & Ethics, and Critical Thinking (Including Involving the Development & Maintenance of Artificial Lakes)
“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 we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.” Wendell Berry, […]
The 60s
“Somewhere along the way, Nash, like many of us, got old. But that hope never did.” https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/08/11/leonard-pitts-woodstock/ In my life, the 60s & 70s was a very special time. … Flattop & burr … to hair. Latin- memorizing altar boy to knowledge-seeking skeptic. Wannabe priest/military pilot to wannabe social justice/ecological activist toward pacfism (Positively Ethical […]
Saudades for Something Closer to a Dynamic Homeostatic Symbioses (“nature”) … Before Rampant Artificialization
I think I am somewhat of a spiritual romantic and dreamer who also tries: • to read, listen to, absorb, understand, and act out some of the manifestations of the intellect of relatively solid intellectuals in various realms and • to take some worthy pragmatic actions by tagging along with some intelligent and wise take-action […]
All Roads Run In and Out Of … and Through Roma
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/movies/roma-review.html https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/all_roads_lead_to_Rome We watched Roma today As on the couches we lay. What a touching show! That truly does helps us to know. I immediately entered into a super-pensive mood … And truth be told, at times … a very deep brood. But suddenly it turned to good memories about a brasiliero. Yes!?! … Sort […]
Twenty-Two Very Memorable Times. Some Good, Some Bad. paul bain martin, 11/24/46-7/20/19
(These thoughts were triggered by the footage currently being shown on CNN of the lunar landing, 7/20/69 and meeting an acquaintance of Ernie Koy, Jr. at the Seguin Wellness Center during a recent evening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Koy_Jr. https://www.si.com/vault/2005/08/22/8270922/ernie-koy-jr-running-back- https://www.kjas.com/news/local_news/article_c071fe54-ec53-11e8-b7b5-a35bdf322dc5.html 1. Love, empathy, fellowship, and solidarity; amazing dancing, good barbeque, beer, and champagne. Our wedding night at Quihi […]
The Romantic in Me: A Christmas Night Culminating Into An Amazing Day (July 16, 1971) … and Development into a Wonderfully Fascinating 48+-Year-Ride
It was mostly her Johnny Hoffmann-smile Across the floor at Quihi, With an abundance of friends, … Good folksy music and a real country feel. And alcohol! But, moreover, her seductive attire. And we danced and danced so very close. And being the obsessive narcissistic idealist I am I tapped another to take my date […]
TRUTHS
TRUTHS are: 1. We are OVER CARRYING CAPACITY for humans & domesticated species. 2. We are DRAWING DOWN ON THE NATURAL RESOURCE BASE. 3. There is tremendous DISPARITY ON EAARTH and there is no way an Earth can carry 7-10 billion humans at the levels at which U.S. citizens and other Haves consume. 4. Therefore […]
“POEM” OF HOPE (“PRAYER” FOR LIFE-SUSTAINING SOFT POWER ON EARTH–Response to an assignment by Generations Indigenous Ways leader, Waylon Gaddie)
Waunspe wacekiya.* Let us learn on our own. And let us prod ourselves to actively do so. True learning has to be “hands on”, Often painful. We’ve got to get dirty. But it’s worth it For all of life … For dynamic homeostatic symbioses. Camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente. The shrimp […]