Earthseed: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

Michael Talcott’s

Rubin Quintanilla’s

Silvia ...

Cory

Haha one tough lady

I.e., secrecy

anything about my mother, my hyperempathy, and how the two are connected.

Thanks to Paracetco, the small pill, the Einstein powder, the particular drug my mother chose to abuse before my birth killed her, I’m crazy.

that isn’t my fault, and

I’m supposed to share pleasure and pain, but there isn’t much pleasure around these days.

Haha!

he’s good at reading me. Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth.

Silvia Dunn, Hector Quintanilla, Curtis Talcott, and Drew Baiter,

Rubin’s brother

Silvia Dunn, Hector Quintanilla, Curtis Talcott, and Drew Baiter,

Michael’s brother

Keith and ...

They thought a proper baptism was important enough to spend some mone...

Curtis

I care

I...

the fortress-church,

Lazor wire

Made up brand name for barbed tape (razor wire), a mesh of metal strips with sharp edges whose purpose is to prevent passage by humans; much sharper than the standard barbed wire, it is named after its appearance but is not razor sharp. The points are very sharp, however, and made to rip and snag clothing and flesh. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbed_tape

Dad thinks I need more humility. I think my particular biological humility—or humiliation—is more than enough.

Haha

I wish I didn’t care.

He believes in what he sees, and no matter what’s in front of him, he doesn’t see much.

Haha!

A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of super-person.

A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.

So what is God? Just another name for whatever makes you feel special and protected?

There are over 700 known dead so far. One hurricane.

Climate change!

Most of the dead are the street poor who have nowhere to go and who don’t hear the warnings until it’s too late for their feet to take them to safety.

Where’s safety for them anyway? Is it a sin against God to be poor?

We’re almost poor ourselves. There are fewer and fewer jobs among us, more of us being born, more kids growing up...

One way or another, we’ll all be p...

How will God—my father’s God—behave toward us ...

I wonder if the people on the Gulf Coast still have faith.

I read a lot period.

My favorite book of the Bible is Job. I think it says more about my father’s God in particular and gods in general than anything else I’ve ever read.

I agree, but not about her child’s toys interpretation. Take away the folktale frame and *that’s* the God I’m coming to know.

Haha!

Bang, bang! Seven toys fall dead. If they’re yours, you make the rules. Who cares what the toys think.

Wipe out a toy’s family, then give it a brand new family. Toy children, like Job’s children, are interchangeable.

wasted on another crazy space trip when so many people here on earth can’t afford water, food, or shelter.

water now costs several times as much as gasoline. But, except for arsonists and the rich, most people have given up buying gasoline.

Vehicles like that are rusting in driveways and being cannibalized for metal and plastic.

It’s a lot harder to give...

Plus they’ll think you’re rich.

Cory

Tonight the last big Window Wall television in the neighborhood went dark for good.

We saw a dust-dry reservoir and three dead water peddlers

And we saw whole blocks of boarded up buildings burni...

Of course, no one would waste water trying to put...