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August 14 - October 14, 2020
Perfect weather for getting pinned down by armed lunatics.
Haha
She was filthy beyond my ability to describe filthiness.
I don’t share any feeling with the unconscious or the dead, I’m glad to say.
The other two were a big, naked, middle-aged, blond woman shot in the legs and thighs and a clothed blond boy of about 15 shot in the legs and left shoulder.
Indenturing indigents, young and old, is much in fashion now.
The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments—the ones abolishing slavery and guaranteeing citizenship rights—still exist, but they’ve been so weakened by custom, by Congress and the various state legislatures, and by recent Supreme Court decisions that they don’t much matter.
“The risk in running away empty-handed was at least as great as the risk of going for the truck.”
Well, I never thought you were stupid. Obsessed, perhaps, but not stupid.
We’re you name it: Black, White, Latino, Asian, and any mixture at all—the kind of thing you’d expect to find in a city.
God is Change, And in the end, God prevails. But meanwhile… Kindness eases Change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles
FROM Memories of Other Worlds
But then, both love and zealotry are irrational states of mind.
Olamina believes in a god that does not in the least love her.
Yet Earthseed is not a fatalistic belief system. God can be directed, focused, speeded, slowed, shaped.
God is inexorable, yet malleable.
Odd.
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the Earthseed...
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Earthseed is Olamina’s contribution to what she feels should be a species-wide effort to evade, or at least to lengthen the specialize-grow-die evolutionary cycle that humanity faces, that every species faces.
“or we can be just one more abortion.
‘The Destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.’
She hopes and dreams and writes and believes, and
perhaps the world will let her live for a while, tolerating her as a harmless eccentric.
That’s odd,
love for a compassionate God, fear of an angry God, fulsome praise and desperate pleading for a God that rewards and punishes.
For the human species, immortality is something to be won by sowing Earthseed on other worlds.
Its promise is of hard work and brand-new possibilities, problems, challenges, and changes.
Krista Koslow Noyer.
Zahra Baker and Allie Gilchrist
Danton Noyer, Junior.
May.
our May.
I’ve heard that in some of the more religious towns, repression of women has become more and more extreme.
Scolari
Figueroas
Dovet...
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May’s a sharer,
We’re 67 people now with the Noyer children. We’re growing too fast.
Kassia and Mercy
Leontyev
seven people in the Noyer family
Krista and Danton, Senior;
Kassia and...
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Paula and...
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Dan,
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The Noyers were nominal Christians—a Catholic mother, an Episcopalian father, and kids who had never seen the inside of a church.
FROM Memories of Other Worlds
Sequoia sempervirens
young redwood trees—those only about a century old, not yet mature—are withering.
FROM The Journals of Lauren Oya Olamina
