I must accept the Catch-22s. But they ARE becoming more and more prevalent. They are so very obvious in today’s world. A quick couple of examples, if somewhat messy examples, using an exceptionally & wonderfully culturally-rich locale on this Eaarth … 1.India has numerous challenges for numerous reasons. Mostly it has to do with people. […]
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Memorial Weekend 2025
What is below is an email form a dear fiend of mine, Tom Giessel … wheat farmer, Farmers Union Historian, on the board of Ogallala Commons for many years, devout Roman Catholic, all around good fellow!!! … “This was sent to me by my friend, Barbara. It is a great message. Just click on the […]
“Love Honduras” Veterinarian & Vision Volunteering … and Bubbles! (Ist drafted on 5/25/2025)
“Metaphorically, “living in a bubble” describes being isolated from the broader world [local & global Nature], often due to limited interactions with diverse perspectives or a preference for comfort zones.” (AI Overview from Google) …………………… I live to speak out strongly and thus learn much from others. (And I agree with the great statesman & […]
another attempt to communicate … to come clean. poetry for eaarth* to earth day, in memory of juan seguin … & pope francis (and others)
another attempt to communicate … to come clean. poetry for eaarth* to earth day, in memory of juan seguin … & pope francis (and others) by paul bain martin (bain, name of a prominent family of bankers in my old hometowns of stockdale & devine. bain, my namesake … dad’s beloved brother … was a […]
An Umbrella Story. Making Some Significance Out of an Insignificant
A Mission/Ethos. Despite no free will in the dice rolls over space & time from ca. 14 billion years ago & before, and the existential threats “seeming to come to ‘fruition’ for humanity,” “… we still must attempt to help realize quality life/equity for all biota. (“Seek profound, holistic realization of the Golden Rule while […]
Faith and Truth
Gods, demagogues, money, agriculture, capitalism, the stock market, cryptocurrency, medicine, engineering & technology, artificialization is FAITH. Life/Nature (God)/dynamic homeostatic symbioses/sustainable ecological community, mathematics, poetry & art & music & song, soil & quality air/quality water/ biodiversity & photosynthesizers/sun, … , birds and bees, health is TRUTH. Science is a process of searching for a True […]
A Dylan Prophecy About Trump’s USA?
https://forward.com/culture/music/702352/bob-dylan-its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding-1964-anthem-trump-america/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJOluJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTH1hbRUEyeOYcWqShR6CeHQD9wfdl5xDwwoZewsJ4jVuAU7gYkt6rF0lg_aem_PkFo_3N_lImY0xts735X8A
Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than It Is to Imagine the End of Capitalism?
From Commonweal (3/18/2025), a Catholic journal of opinion, and oldest independent lay-edited Catholic journal in the United State: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/thoreau-barnes-humphreys-buell-alienation?utm_source=Main+Reader+List&utm_campaign=0072bb7012-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_407bf353a2-0072bb7012-92668095&fbclid=IwY2xjawJOlS9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHatM3lto51gd85mw3krs1YKml8_y8a-zEQSB-ljewLZXV6LmjAeHxxWcLQ_aem_OTdx9VDyDyqIGtbUFsVdug **************************** “Thoreau’s understanding of Darwin is particularly illuminating. While later writers would extract from Darwin a justification for social hierarchy that saw the richest as the best-adapted, Thoreau, Buell writes, mined Origin of Species for ‘its […]
OK!!! Being a Trumpian “Conservative” or a Republican “Conservative” Has Little to Do with Conserving (Toward Sustainable Ecological Community)???
Thoughts (nothing new) after coffee and before I put in a day’s work with a hired helper … tidying up around here. (The stuff below … is not very organized …; however, I am ATTEMPTING to communicate, primarily with my friends to the relatively far-Right politically.) 1. I am definitely more conservative than most U.S. […]