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“Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast […]

“Lavandera mala no encuentra jamás buena piedra. A bad washer doesn’t ever find a good rock.”1 (These bad washers blame the system!) ……………………… El sistema smells bad! The system tastes muy mal. It feels bad. The system appears to be … So sad!! ……….. “Those Illegal Immigrants who can no longer be legally held (Congress […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2S46evll8I&fbclid=IwAR08E93Ec2cBPgS_mtxyer8hFnAzJm8uoMhOjDFUQksq03sS9jQubXdxmj0 After viewing this ca. hour-long YouTube presentation by Dahr Jamail this morning, I felt strongly that I had to share it via email, http://www.paulpeaceparables.com/blog/ , and https://www.facebook.com/paul.b.martin.54 before tackling other matters I had planned for this terça-feira, March 20, 2019. Dahr’s talk is very powerful for many reasons in terms of discussion of the […]

I’m hopeful And will steadfastly act to elect a woman and progressive. I will be obsessive To help with a slate which can be Truthfully memorable. It should be a piece of cake given this “president” who is a fake, And a snake* we all know is on the take. But I fear my dear […]

Poetry? Como é?1 Louise Kneuper’s Catholic prayers? “Hail Mary, … full of grace, … the Lord is with thee.” A Jimmie Rodgers song? “Rather drink muddy water And sleep in a hollow log Than to be in Atlanta Treated like a dirty dog.”2 E.O.Wilson and consilience? “We are not predestined to reach any goal, Nor […]

Kiaugh. Search for a palavra2, a word, previously unknown Mandates our facilitator of poetry, Says the lovely and loving learned speaker of French, The caring polyglot. … Maybe search for Latin-derived English words? What about uma palavra em ingles Similar (in letters used) to “palavra”!?! … Or maybe to “saudades” (deep blues for something lost)? […]

Foreign Affairs is always good, but I especially appreciated this March/April 2019 Issue.  Below are a few tidbits. From “This Is Your Brain on Nationalism.  The Biology of Us and Them” by Robert Sapolsky (You have to read his Behave. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/09/behave-by-robert-sapolsky-review ): “Sometimes the very foundation of affection and cooperation are also at the root […]

Written piece seen in Adbusters, Vol. 27, No. 2.  https://www.adbusters.org/ :   “If we look into our lives, we will see clearly how many unimportant tasks, so-called responsibilities accumulate to fill them up. … We tell ourselves we want to spend time on the important things of life, but there never is any time. Even […]

I do recognize that the U.S.A. has a history of original and on-going sins of: genocide of indigenous peoples, slavery, manifest destiny / expansionism / neo-liberal capitalism / related War, and rampant ecological destruction of native ecosystems involving southern longleaf pines, plains grasslands, coastal estuaries, various wetlands, karst springs, kelp forests, etc.. Moreover, I also […]