Thoughts* on Voting for U.S. President This Year, 2024

(*Stimulated after some light texting-discussion exchanges with brothers & friends) Anyone of sanity and moral & ethical integity would not vote for Donald Trump for President of the U.S. … or support Trumpian MAGAism. Moreover, it is difficutlt to communicate, cooperate, or compromise with the (lack of appropriate) “values” and policies of the current Republican […]

Please TRY to Understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics … and “Sustainable (Quality Living Systems) Energetics”

(If what is “blurted out” below seems to be to you … goobledygook, “Greek”, doublespeak, “enrolada”, BS/”besteira”/”caca”; too scientific, overly simplistic & obvious; or too redundant & boring; etc., etc. … just please try to trust me and do begin live a life of learning in solidarity with others, … practicing, politicking, and preaching … […]

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Let’s see if I’ve got it right? …………… The best of reputable ecological scientists and their very thorough on-going studies & analysis of local & global systems data say … o given limitations of the laws of physics and biology, we are virtually limited to this Eaarth and the daily solar energy arriving each day, […]

Florence Ann Mae Sachtleben Hoffmann (8/3/28-1/24/24; 18 yrs my senior). (Her Love of Life, Devotion to Family, and Her Art and Crafts Certainly Contributed Greatly to My Personal Quality of Life!)

cheerful and upbeat … and she could take the heat learned in a pragmatic way of living … moreover, she was always giving a bit insecure like most all of us … but not one to fuss ready to dive into really living life … florence never really sweat the strife ……… simple country life […]

Ignoring, Or Ignorance of: the Golden Rule/Natural Law/Basic Ecological Principles, Processes, & Values of Sustainability

I am an early baby boomer (born 11/24/1946) with genetics/epigenetics of and upbringing from very humble, frugal, not very captitalistic depression-influenced parents as well as the environmental influences of Vatican II, the civil rights & ecological movements, the Vietnam War & pacifist activism, and fantastic music, song, & poetry of the middle 1950s-1970s and current […]

Critically Thinking and Acting Toward Quality Life for All Including Other Species

o Given our individual & collective knowledge of ecological principles & practices, and our values, in relative solidarity we must individually and collectively make decisions for the good of all based on the monitored conditions of the various wholes/sub-wholes of the ecosphere (Eaarth/Earth; Nature, the Land, the Commons; ecological communities; the natural resource base; human […]

“Pride and Prejudice” … Naw! … Herein It Is “Humility vs. Pride”

From what I’ll call “a separate discussion by ‘A Crazy Five’ on text-Messaging by Google”:………… In biology/ecology and other fields we talk of “lumpers & splitters.” I am first & foremost a lumper. (Of course with continued discourse I begin to split & split & split until we get lost in the trees & understory […]

Ken (big brother perspective, i.e., paul bain martin Truths)

Ken, a youngest male sibling who struggled with asthma and sibling rank (and who also struggled with other forces from his genetics and epigenetics and south central texas formative environment) was relatively spoiled (dad alton even left work at the mill and rode hurriedly in his green bobtail hog truck to devine high to tear […]