I Must Accept an Abundance of Catch-22s Here on Eaarth (McKibben 2010)*. But They ARE Becoming More and More Prevalent and We are Doing Little About It!

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. […]

“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 […]

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. […]