I think I am somewhat of a spiritual romantic and dreamer who also tries:
• to read, listen to, absorb, understand, and act out some of the manifestations of the intellect of relatively solid intellectuals in various realms and
• to take some worthy pragmatic actions by tagging along with some intelligent and wise take-action do-gooders performing hands-on, on-the-ground, earthly grass-roots works where such is obviously needed.
I am very comfortable being:
• a bleeding heart-leftist, wannabe pacifist, tree-hugger and democratic eco-socialist …
• who is for: an ethic of reciprocity, abiding by the precautionary principle, affirmative action & reparations, severe gun regulation, requiring all youth to serve in peace corps-type governmental & NGO entities after high school rather than the military, one-half-plus of the Earth set aside to “nature”, appropriate applied agroecology practices, and banning cars and moving to transport/transportation systems of feet, bicycles, trains, buses, and modern clipper ships (and much more … in order to lower our individual and collective ecological footprints).
But …
• I am tiring of white supremacist-, racist-, gun-lover-rhetoric … and Trumpster and Trumpian supporters and apologists.
• And I am becoming increasingly unhappy (I have what are “natural” ups and downs.) with two-faced relatives and friends (despite realizing that oftentimes they don’t recognize their dishonesty, hypocrisy, and deceitfulness) who voted for, support, and apologize for Trump’s disgraceful and socially unjust, inhumane, & ecologically insane statements, goals, policies, and actions.
(I recognize that I am often unfair with my simplistic analysis of problems and presentation of solutions, and after presenting these almost immediately begin to expound by explaining that all human-biological systems and their challenges are very complex and dynamic–temporally, spatially, evolution-wise, psychologically, socio-politically/economically, ecologically.) https://journals.flvc.org/flaent/article/view/57511 http://bannedbookscafe.blogspot.com/2013/09/normal-0-false-false-false.html Martin, P.B. and P. Prather. 1991. Sustainable agriculture: a process at the community level. American J. of Alternative Agriculture. 3(1)
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This morning’s scannings-readings of the NYT, the WSJ, the Economist, the New Yorker, the Week, the Friends Journal, Adbusters, etc. stimulated thoughts and interactions from the tree-hugger parts of my brain, or my saudades for a dynamic homeostatic symbioses.
I am not a significantly worldly global trekker, but some of the favorite “natural” places I have visited which I wish were more “natural” again are:
• 1950s Garner State Park, Texas,
• the beautiful beaches and mountains of 1980s Rio de Janeiro,
• The beautiful state of Washington in the early 2000s,
• the mountains and Chattahoochee River of 1970s North Georgia around Helen,
• the 1970s white sand beaches of St. George Island and other areas of the Florida panhandle,
• mid to late 1990s Krakow, Poland,
• Yellowstone in the early 2000s,
• 1970s Oasis State Park, Portales, New Mexico,
• The Carpathian Mountains in southwestern Ukraine in the late 1990s,
• The beaches of Cascais, Portugal in the early 2000s.
(The dates immediately above approximate what were the first times I visited these wonderful places, prior to continued artificialization and destructive challenges to the beautiful spiritual aspects of the homeostasis of “nature’s” symbioses.)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/05/travel/florida-panhandle-beach-vacation.html
pbm 8/11/19
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