chuls"When I have to deal with something that disturbs me as much as the botfly did, I write about it. I sort out my problems by writing about them. In a high school classroom on November 22, 1963, I remember grabbing a notebook and beginning to write my response to news of John Kennedy's assassination.
Whether I write journal pages, an essay, a short story, or weave my problems into a novel, I find the writing helps me get through the trouble and get on with my life."
Owliphant#WomensHistoryMonth Day 14 Author Octavia Butler in her 1993 book 'Parable of the Sower' wrote about a collapsing world in the 2020's due to climate change, corporate greed and wealth inequality.
Where in the World...was she born?
Click to find out: https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=216&type=q
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Dannyboyguyman@MHowell @michael_w_busch yes, and also the rest, led by fools and cowards and thiefs and liars and tyrants all at once, it's all the same people simultaneously, a kakistocracy
I read Octavia Butler's parable of the sower and parable of the talents in quick succession for the first time in the fall of 2024, almost exactly coinciding with the date timeline that begins these stories, and in which she predicted with astonishing prescience many of the ways the US government and social order collapses into lawless and brutal persecution of minority populations, American fascism of the Future.
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The MarginalianOctavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/06/octavia-butler-god/
The Lifeboat AcademyInspiration is powerful but fleeting. Habit is what steadies a life.
If we want to trust the quieter signals beneath fear and fantasy, we need practices we return to regularly — reflection, conversation, repair.
Habit, in this sense, is not productivity. It is persistence in relationship with the 'felt sense'.
Full reflection:
https://emotus.substack.com/p/a-breadcrumb-for-my-future-self
WaltDied this day: 02/24/2006 (b. 06/22/1947)
Octavia Butler was a groundbreaking science fiction author whose novels explored race, gender, and power. She won two Hugo and two Nebula Awards, and was the first SF writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Her works include Kindred, the Parable duology, and the Xenogenesis trilogy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler
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Led By Gilded Fools@michael_w_busch Yeah, and here's the rest of that poem.
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