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“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 […]

failure to communicate

they will never understand me they haven’t a clue and perhaps never will especially those who ban, block, shun, scarlet-letter, burn, trash it, build walls & stretch barbed wire, lock their minds to ecological learning,*… ………………………….. i will never understand them and probably never will ……………………………. and on & on & on & on … […]

Input Into the 2023 Farm Bill. Presentations to Local Government Entities in the Seguin, Texas Area (October 2023)

(This is a compilation of three similar presentations I prepared  in October of 2023 for important local governmental entities in my home of Seguin and Guadalupe County, Texas) Introduction.  Thank you, Judge Kyle Kutsher and County Commissioners, Mayor Donna Dodgen and Seguin City Council members, President Alejandro Guerra and Seguin ISD Trustees … and all […]

I’m “Simply” Trying to Be a Decent Applied Ecologist (My Daddy Made Me Do It!)

“The apple doesn’t far from the tree” I am to a large extent my Dad Alton Martin of a determined mind, of focus, of a very tough love, And of some intellect, knowledge, wisdom, prudence Like Dad I am relatively low-input, -throughput, -output My flaws & frailties have been very similar to Dad’s Loving family […]

October 22, 2023 Here on Eaarth!

Manifest Destiny of Neoliberalism & Growth Manifested by transnational corporations Over Nature, Land, the Commons And as in the past here in “America” and in its Global Empire The soldiering and Wars that come hand in hand With a Manifest Destiny of Growth  Buffalo hunters of capitalistic-declared commodities remain But with an increased appetite of […]

U.S.A.? Red U.S.A?? Far-Right U.S.A.??? MAGA U.S.A.???? (Is Ignorance Bliss?)

Book banning (Why don’t we ban … plastics? … use of fossil and nuclear energy? … use of most synthetic “pest”icides? … assault weapons? … uncontrolled, very dumb growth covering necessary life-giving watersheds, wildlife habitat, sustainable ranch and farmland and doing all sorts of polluting? … nuclear weapons? … War?) Don’t teach Darwinism! (But our […]

learning and interacting and learning and interacting …

as much as our genes and epigenetic influences and environment will tolerate, we must (toughly) lovingly, “scientifically” interact with all of nature (dynamic symbiotic symbioses) and all humans and other biota within and learn together … in solidarity and interact and indoctrinate and rewire as we wisely and prudently inherently know we should … for […]