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“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 […]

Another Developing Addition for the Little Book on Applied Ecology: “Let’s Ban Plastic Bags Locally All Over the World!” by p.b. martin This piece is about disposable plastic bags and rectifying at least this one aspect of our downright sinful ways. And I do wish to make it clear from the outset, that despite these […]

Presentation/Readings for the Friends of the Seguin Public Library event, Community Meeting Room-Seguin Public Library, 10 am-12 noon, September 8, 2018 paul bain martin PEACE?/Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology?  …  Sunday, Labor Day Weekend.  I very much appreciated the community’s “coming together” (but those gathered were mostly Mexican-Americans) at the Seguin-Guadalupe County Coliseum & grounds […]

[These stories will follow an illustration dealing with biodiversity, food webs, and connectiveness in the little book on applied ecology, Games We Play.] During a political dinner one evening I sat across from an older couple who were discussing in some scientific detail the life cycles and movement patterns of the hackberry feeder, the American […]

Games We Play: More Than 200,000 Years of Living Truthfully* & of Searching for Truth** (*200,000-15,000 BCE **5,000-Present).  This is a “final draft” of several of the ca. 50 images on which Laura Salazar and my wife Elizabeth Martin are working.  Click once on the image and it will enlarge, or twice for it enlarging […]

A draft of a personal story for Games We Play which will be a sidebar for an illustration titled “Why? Eaarth/the Anthropocene. The mess we have made and are in.”: It Was Far from Being Perfect. But What Happened to My Wonderful Home Just East of Devine, Texas?? # The Warm & Fuzzy Feel* and […]

A draft of an “Epilogue” to the little heavily illustrated book on applied ecology: Up in the upper right-hand corner of the page, the little bird will ask: “Why? don’t you humans practice what you preach? … the Golden Rule … PEACE … Love … Humility.”   Epilogue:  Major Contributors to This Book … and […]

Revision for the Introduction to Games We Play, a little heavily-illustrated book on applied ecology for kids from 12 to 120 years of age: The basics of this little book are: 1.Through more than fifty illustrations herein we hope to elicit more movement toward communicating, researching, and critically thinking about living collectively as true lovers […]

Brief explanation of the title of our little book on applied ecology, or Games We Play: More Than 200,000 Years of Living Truthfully & of Searching for Truth: After the title and necessary publisher information we will have a page with the following: “For more than 200,000 years we lived Truths of living locally and […]