Beauty and Bullshit (Besteira, Mierda) Here on Eaarth. Prep for a “Bad”-Guitar Gathering, Oct 22, 2023

It hurts me deeply and saddens me greatly to see the terrible, senseless carnage and lack of a decent humanity in the world … and especially now! … in this moment … in Gaza! ( https://geneva-academy.ch/galleries/today-s-armed-conflicts https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/100145/us-most-dangerous-neighborhoods-fbi-data https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/22/us/school-shootings-fast-facts-dg/index.html ) … to at least some extent because of the stupidity!, complacency, smugness, greed, misguided states of […]

Leaving (Saliendo de) the Amazing and Wonderful “Kids On the Land”. An Open Note to St. Peggy Maddox … et al.

Dearest Peggy, It is Sunday and as a christian (maybe pacifist franciscan), perhaps I should be attending Mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church here in Seguin. I attend because it is my tradition instilled in me by Mom St. Louise (Kneuper) Martin and I feel solidarity and sense of ecological community there at […]

Leaving Nazareth, Morning of 8/31/23*

The Llano Estacado! …… Spectacular sustaining prairie grass!! (Perhaps with plenty of frass!) Wanderingly, wonderingly … wonderfully painted across the landscape Into the horizon (A few fantastically foxy clouds illustrated above. A soothingly smoothly gliding bird in fly-by in the sky) …… Serene and clean dream (But lonely in this ol’ pickup truck) …… Feels […]

I Am Truly a Fortunate Son (a “crazy?” poem by a crazy, but sane, man … ignited in a few moments from his bed, early tuesday morn, september 19, 2023)

I am a fortunate son Of a successful hog-farmer on a small family farm (A humble, loving, hardworking agrarian who very, very rarely went to church … graças a Deus) …… I am truly a fortunate son Who but dreams and fights for PEACE and socio-ecological justice (For “a less … which is more”) I […]

paul bain/”vain, in vain”‘s reality

My goals/my journeys, my components for a wonderful idealistic “real reality” (what is unreality, or disreality, or BS/besteira/caca for most) are/are for … o moral and ethical application (profound & holistic) of the principles and processes of ecology/all being positively ethical applied community ecologists, or PEACEmakers; o PEACE/pacifism (antiWar activism, disarmament at home & globally); […]

PEACE!

Discussion my loving wife Betsy one morning … Most recognize, we believe, the SERIOUS problems & challenges of all this rampant artificalization here on EAARTH. Therefore … o We MUST have degrowth o We must wean ourselves rapidly, of fossil energy and in general, reduce artificial energy-throughput. I could list many more of these necessary […]

Twenty-Minute & Poster Presentations at the Southern Family Farmers and Food Systems Conference, San Marcos, TX, Aug. 5-8, 2023

“… we are, after all, striving for a better total-world to live in, and not a better way to kill FAW [fall armyworms], a more effective sampling technique for FAW, a more refined dynamic AT [action threshold] for FAW in CBG [coastal bermudagrass], or a higher quality bale of hay.” In P. B. Martin et al. 1980. Action […]