Three EcoRegions that Ground these Writes of Regeneration
Storying the Emergence of the New Earth in Central Texas, Along the Río Bravo and Along the Texas Gulf Coast
There are three major ecoregions (for now) that these writes of regeneration will ground into. They will do so by imagining a regenerative culture for each region, while also storying the emergence of the New Earth in each.
The three ecoregions are represented by these three section titles:
CenTex GeoAscent
The Central Texas Regenerative Age
-- Imagining a Regenerative Culture of the CenTex Colorado River EcoRegion while Storying the Emergence of the New Earth in Central Texas.El Abrazo del Río Bravo
The Embrace of the Rio Grande
-- Exploring the concept of a geo-focused “Communion of Communities” along the Rio Grande.The Texas Bay Hopper
Times and Tides of the Texas Gulf Coast
-- Still within Contemplative Percolation
Further Expansion (In Reverse Order)
The Texas Bay Hopper
The Texas Bay Hopper is on the horizon.
During my college years at the University of Houston, and for a few years after, I was a beach-goer. Every Spring Break was spent at South Padre Island (SPI) and Matamoros, Tamaulipas. I drove a Jeep Wrangler with a distinctly Islander identity. I’m not certain but, in my memory, it seems I spent every other weekend at the beach in Galveston during the summer months of those years (often under the influence of entheogens and alcohol). But then…
I fell in love with the Texas Hill Country and its Colorado River (and its tributaries). The Texas Gulf Coast was all but forgotten for the better part of the next 30 years. (During the last ten of those 30 years, I fell in love with the mountains of Northern Mexico and with the Rio Bravo.)
In the last few years however, I discovered the community and beaches of Port Aransas (Port A, as its affectionately known regionally.) And I rediscovered Port Isabel, the gateway to SPI that I’d always sped through as a very young man (okay, as a child) enroute to SPI. The Texas beach was suddenly back in my soul-awareness. And now, Texas beach communities are there too.
Two years ago I made my first Bay-Hopping expedition from Galveston to Port Isabel -- hitting every bay along the way. And, although I’m currently vagabonding between Austin, DFW and Houston (let’s just say “friends and family”), I did spend a good part of last year, 2025, living and working in the Coastal Bend area (specifically in Rockport, Corpus Christi and Port A). I also spent a part of last year living and working in the TexMex RioPlex of the BorderPlex (specifially in Brownsville, Port Isabel and SPI).
From all this Texas Bay Hopping, the idea for the Times and Tides of the Texas Gulf Coast came to me. It’s still a very new concept for me. So, it will, no doubt, be the last of the three ecoregions for which I’m likely to develop some consistent writing. But its on the horizon.
El Abrazo del Río Bravo
The name “El Abrazo del Río Bravo” is inspired by the “Hugs not Walls” gatherings along the U.S./Mexico border. These occasional “coming together” events take place upon a few of the bridges connecting the border towns along the Río Bravo.
— These gatherings were taking place long before the recent migrant challenges. The intended focus here is communal and eco-spiritual, not political. No specific geo-political position should be assumed for the creator of this work. Generally, while vetted immigration makes sense to this writer, separating tribes and families does not make sense. And even the most necessary borders can be managed without resorting to the building of walls (given all that walls metaphorically represent). —
The Rio Grande confluences many tributary streams along its lengthy path from its headwaters in the San Juan mountains of southwest Colorado to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico at Boca Chica. This ecologically threatened river also confluences seven states (in two countries), three major ecoregions (and their subregions), three major cultures (along with their subcultures), two modern nations and, quite possibly, all that could constitute one single communion in El Abrazo del Río Bravo.
I’ve visited the border in El Paso a few times, including at the migrant height during the years of the Biden Administration. I met some people and left with some stories. That’s for another post.
I’ve visited (or at least traversed) the Rio Grande several times throughout the last four decades of my life. And, while I’ve felt its call for the last decade, it is only in the last seven years that I’ve truly received that river’s embrace. Only within the last seven years have I actually immersed myself physically into the Rio Grande and a few of its tributaries.
The town of Creede, CO, is near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. I’ve visited Creede twice. On the second visit, I attended the Headwaters Music Festival. On the first visit, I climbed to the very trickling start of the river’s headwaters in the San Juan Mountains.
The Rio Grande Gorge, in northern New Mexico, plunges 800 ft deep from the desert mesa above. I’ve spent a couple weeks camping down inside that canyon, next to the Rio Grande. It’s one of my absolute favorite places to camp. I’ve also camped on the Río Bravo just outside Terlingua, TX, in Big Bend National Park…
The community of Terlingua — along with its Ghost Town center, that is no longer truly a ghost town — is situated in the Far West Texas, Transpecos Region. It sits on the border with Mexico, between Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park. If you’ve not been to these park treasures, they need to be added to your “to-visit” bucket list. And Terlingua is not to be missed. There is no place on Earth quite like it.
And, as already covered previously, I’ve spent quite a bit of time along the Rio Grande in the RioPlex near (and on) the Texas Gulf Coast. During my time there, I once waded out into the mouth of the Río Bravo, at the Gulf of Mexico between Texas and Tamaulipas, and shook hands with a Mexican neighbor across an imaginary border line — right there in the mouth of the river, in the gulf.
(I was somewhat taking a health risk by wading into the mouth of the river. The river flows through some major industrial areas… Albuquerque, El Paso, Brownsville, etc. before reaching the Texas-Tamaulipas Gulf. Wading into its waters that far downstream is not recommended. Upstream of Albuquerque is a different matter altogether.)
There’s more. Essentially, I’ve been all up and down the Rio Grande.
And, within these last few years, I’ve been contemplating what a Communion of Communities along the Rio Grande might look like. Yes, I do have some undeveloped ideas. However, the writing focus for El Abravo del Río Bravo will be of a distinctly exploratory nature. I’m excited to both learn from and share with others.
CenTex GeoAscent
The contemplative “mything” and writing on the Central Texas Regenerative Age began in 2007. In the time since, those writings had been “put on a shelf” many times. I’ll circle back to the reasons for this at another time. The point is, there are already many writes of regeneration to share on CenTex GeoAscent. And I’m very happy to finally be doing so. (There is also more that I’m working on.)
Starting-out, I’ll mostly be sharing these writings on the Central Texas Regenerative Age (CenTex GeoAscent). In the coming weeks and months, you can expect Writes of Regeneration on the following CenTex GeoAscent subtopics:
New Scripts, New Myths, New Writs
Toward a Better Story, a Communal Story, a Regenerative StoryThe Saint Stealth Discourses
The Ghost of the River unfolds the Ancient and Emergent Myth of Central TexasTerra Sufia
Exploring a Geologic Spirit-Wisdom for Central TexasTemplé Spiritus
Toward a Mythic Practicum and an Evolving Praxis of Central Texas EcoRitesTenor Structures
GeoHarmonic Resonances of Emergent Central Texas EcoCommunitiesTheurgy Theatre
A Rite of Hieros Gamos for Central TexasThe Charge of the Goddess in Central Texas
”It is with a New Work for New Earth that I charge you.”More
The intention is to give a particular expression to the on-going realization of our one communion with the soul of the land, with each other and with the Spirit of the Divine, or the Communal Spirit.
One Communion Honored by Writes of Regeneration
In languaging new scripts and generating new myths (via any art form) that are grounded into the land upon which we live, we might re-member ourselves. We may further emerge out of the dream of seperative existence and into a more fully awakened awareness of our wholly communion with each other and all of creation.
The very river of the land may confluence us together!
As writers and artists focussed upon the land in which we live — e.g., the Greater CenTex Colorado River EcoRegion, the Greater Río Bravo EcoRegion, The Texas Gulf Coast EcoRegion — we might sing, dance, play, forge, sculpt, paint, draw and write ourselves into our truest existence, wherein our very living becomes an intended and artistic expression of conscious creation. Our creative works may thus bare witness to the dawning of a new regenerative age for each ecoregion.
We thus get to joyfully participate in a communal ascension with the New Earth, inside the Being/ness of a New Aeon, while expressing a New Paradigm through the New Human.
Gregory
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