Some days I wish Kurt Vonnegut was still around. Others I'm glad he gets peace during this resurgence of Nazism in the US. Thinking about Mother Night. Worth reading / rereading if you haven't.

"The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined. Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell—keeping perfect time for eight minutes and thirty-three seconds, jumping ahead fourteen minutes, keeping perfect time for six seconds, jumping ahead two seconds, keeping perfect time for two hours and one second, then jumping ahead a year. The missing teeth, of course, are simple, obvious truths, truths available and comprehensible even to ten-year-olds, in most cases."

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When I'm not traveling for the holidays, my Módraniht (Mother's Night) tradition involves crafting a Yule wreath. And I do still intend to make a wreath; I've already gathered juniper branches trimmed from my front yard. But this year, as part of my meditation with the Dísir, ...

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