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13 October, 2019 • 8:25 am 0

Great Central Railway, Autumn steam gala, 5th October 2019

Malcolm D B Munro
Sunday 13 October, 2019

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8 October, 2019 • 3:01 pm 0

A Call to the President of Rice University, Houston, Texas: Adopt a small ecological footprint

Rice University is a small, much esteemed higher education facility within the city of Houston. The university has enjoyed a high standing throughout the tertiary education community in the United States and beyond for decades.

The university is self-contained in that it is situated on a unitary campus This means that the University has charge of its environs and can take and implement the necessary steps to become a model for ecological responsibility and serve as an exemplar to both its home city of Houston, and to other universities in the United States, if not else where.

The drive towards a small ecological footprint should take the form of a business model, with a mission statement and projected goals and a stated means of attaining them. The University would be advised in seeking and gaining sponsors as indication to the world at large that Rice University has the support of others who, in turn, might decide to adopt similar aims as part of their business model.

Good Corporate Governance and Citizenry, and Corporate Excellence extend to the world in which the corporation finds itself.

Rice University is well paced to become a Center of Excellence for Ecological Studies and their Application, should it choose to do so.

The President of Rice University is urged to adopt this challenge which will surely bring greater honour and prestige to the university he serves.

In closing, the writer wishes to state that he has no desire or intention of having his mane attached to whatever the university chooses to do, since the call must be agnostic.

Malcolm D B Munro
Tuesday 8 October, 2019

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7 October, 2019 • 6:49 pm 0

#P3 We are not KIDS (strike through that)! no mo’. We’re children without a future thanks to you.

Performance piece, title is provisional.

The remedying the ill effects of our current way of starts at the local, starts with us as individuals. The piece does not address how this might be done. Rather, #P3 gives voice to the children throughout the world who are striking from school and engaging in other acts to draw attention to the fact that, should we continue as we are doing, they will have no world in which to live.

Examples abound but here are one or two:

No future, no children: Teens refusing to have ~~kid~~s until there’s action on climate change

John Bacon, USA TODAY Published 7:42 a.m. ET Sept. 19, 2019 | Updated 12:15 p.m. ET Sept. 24, 2019

Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg took her fight for climate change to Capitol Hill for a second day, demanding lawmakers “take real action.” (Sept. 18) AP, AP

A Canadian teen’s pledge not to have children until her government takes serious action against climate change is drawing support from young people around the globe.

Emma Lim, 18, launched a climate change movement this week called “#No Future, No Children” that includes a website where other teens can take her pledge.

“I am giving up my chance of having a family because I will only have children if I know I can keep them safe,” she says on her website. “It breaks my heart, but I created this pledge because I know I am not alone. … We’ve read the science, and now we’re pleading with our government.”

By Thursday afternoon more than 1,200 children had signed on.

Nota bene: Kids are baby goats. Children do not deserve to be diminutized

Not sure at this point how the performance piece will structure. One thing for sure – no kids, only children.

Malcolm D B Munro
Monday 7 October, 2019

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6 October, 2019 • 12:16 pm 0

Centre for European Reform

Malcolm D B Munro
Sunday 6 October, 2918

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2 October, 2019 • 9:38 am 0

November, 2018 to October, 2019 – a Year from Hell in Review

The end of a week from Hell was marked by a day from Hell, my birthday, 10 November, 2018.

November 2018 saw in me a loss of faith of income from unexpected sources. I thought to myself at the time, “This can’t keep happening.” But, why should it not have? Faith makes such occurrences possible.

The diagnosis of Wet Macular Degeneration in April, 2018, an incurable condition, led to despair at the loss of the ability to read, a catastrophic loss, from which I recovered just three weeks ago. I shall be in treatment for WMD for the rest of my life.

However, with recovery from the shock, one picks up from where one left off, albeit a year ago, however difficult that is

A dubious benefit from the condition is that I am forced to be patient, a quality for I am not well known

I doubt that such a year could be classed as a Dark Night of the Soul. I am not quite sure how the Year from Hell could be classified 🙂 Perhaps a present reader could leave a comment on this. Platitudes are not welcome.

Malcolm D B Munro
Wednesday 3 October, 2019

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23 September, 2019 • 6:29 am 0

Good morning, America

Good morning, America
How are you today?

Are you still the fine country
You once were?

Do you still have your yodelers
And singers of charm
A cowboy in the saddle
For the day is long
Out on the prairie?

Don’t you yearn for those
Days
Simpler then,
Your heroes
The cowboys
Always on the trail?

You remember them, don’t you?

Celebrated in Hollywood
Celluloid dreams.

You remember their names, don’t you?
I needn’t repeat them here.

Some were real, though,
Weren’t they? You celebrated them too,
Didn’t you?

Of their deeds
Their deriding do’s.
Their criminal acts
Living by the Gun
Still.

Do you still celebrate those?

These cowboys
With their innocent air
Stetsons and Remingtons
Killed, didn’t they?

Airbrushed over
The Genocide did
Pushed out of mind

And conscience as well?

The Non Native Native Americans
Pushed to the fringe
American Apartheid, not?

Today you bury your heads
No longer held high
A vast nation
The envy of the World
No longer held.

Sodden
Wet
Drenched
Your spirit
Gone.

What happened to you
My once bright beloved
Country?
A bright star in the sky.
You no longer hace
Pleasant dreams.

No longer are you hail and cheerful
But surly and dour
Each morning to greet each other
With a snarl.

Do you live, America
Or are you dying?
Tjhe American Dream
A Nightmare.

The Ugly American
Grotesque.

Malcolm D B Munro
Monday 23 September,2019

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23 September, 2019 • 3:21 am 0

Thank you

I have no idea as to how my thanks are received. But it doesn’t matter. I have to give them anyway.

Thank you all who follow my blog, welcome those who are just joining and to those who visit alike.

Malcolm D B Munro
Monday 23 September, 2019

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10 October, 2018 • 3:56 pm 0

50% off or more – Autumn Sale of Fine Art Work

SALE
Saatchi Art

Malcolm D B Munro
Wednesday 10 August, 2018

Should you be interested in purchasing more than one work, please contact the art through the Comments column of this blog.

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24 August, 2018 • 10:24 am 0

The Immensee

Kaspar , Kasper, Kasper Hauser,
As you walked the Immensee
Did not get very far
Stopped, halted
Having met a Water Flea.

Malcolm D B Munro
Friday 24 August, 2018

Readers who are alert will know there are three
German stories contained within this ditty. Untold millions
To those who can answer. Millions of blessings, of course.

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