Happy New Year to all! Feliz Ano Novo!!!! Feliz año nuevo. Szcz??liwego Nowego Roku. ********************************** Eduardo Galeano’s Children of the Days for 12/31 & 1/1: [The first of two of Galeano’s inspirations, herein below this introduction of mine, seems like a good one for those who are in the health care field. … However, “Give […]
Monthly Archives: December 2015
“Simple” “Solution”
“The” solution is “simple”. Live simple, small, slow*. … But the insurmountable challenge can be basically stated as two/“too!!”: 1. There are too many people living with too much and too very many living with much too little. And there isn’t enough to go around. 2. Ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, energetics; psychological, socio-political, and economic aspects […]
Some Alton and Louise Martin Family Christmas Stories (ca. 1946-66 and beyond) by paul b. martin, 69 yrs-young, oldest of 6 brothers & sister
As with members of many families and communities I suppose, I do not believe the odds are that I could have been raised in a much better family or community than the Alton & Louise Martin family and Devine, Texas. And life was particularly sweet around Christmas time!! (It wasn’t perfect and could have been […]
Live Like the Poor: Pact of the Catacombs, the Meaning of Human Existence, Technology, Frost’s The Road Not Taken, and Truth*
My original idea for this blog site was to do very short, succinct and light, but thought-provoking, stories based on “facts” with links to substantive scientific knowledge, and with illustrations by my more artistic wife. With help perhaps I will eventually get there before I pass. If I had been born with a silver spoon […]