#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?
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@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
Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/06/octavia-butler-god/
Inspiration 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
Died 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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@michael_w_busch Yeah, and here's the rest of that poem.
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