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Services by Hurley Funeral Home, Devine, Texas (already arranged) & perhaps something in Seguin if the family desires. A simple coffin (I have already built my simple pine box according to necessary specs.) and no embalming … finally placed in the cemetery beside Betsy’s plot at St. Joseph’s cemetery, Comal, TX near Grandpa Paul & […]

Oscar Bain! Military War killed that warm, caring, and loving flame Who through life had much more love to give and to gain He didn’t complain and it was inhumane But in senseless War he was slain Were it not for that, … well … I might still be the same …………………….. Neither he nor […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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); […]

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 […]

(My use of the title of Sister Prejean’s very informative book and the subsequent movie … works of art making an incredible case for needed policies & actions toward social justice, amazing works which highlight “the hypocrisy of condemning people to death for killing others” … my use may seem flippant. But I dearly and […]