Earthseed: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

Adela Ortiz’s

Javier Verdugo Ortiz.

Travis Douglas

Gray Mora

their sworn promise before the community,

Others, whether we thought of them as friends or not, would be all too willing to join the mob and to stomp us and rob us if stomping and robbing became a test of courage or a test of loyalty to country, religion, or race.

the only way to make more good friends is to make more friends period.

Grayson Mora

Travis

Bankole

I want us to grow into the cities and towns in this natural, self-supporting way.

Noriko, Michael’s wife,

Emery Mora

Allie Gilchrist, Alan Faircloth, Ramiro Peralta,

Ramiro’s oldest daughter Pilar

Aubrey Do...

Dolores Figueroa Castro

Lucio’s niece,

Marta’s da...

Emery Mora,

Lucio Figueroa

We all feed one another’s hungers.

Dan Noyer

Don’t call us a cult. If you see cult like behaviors or speech, tell me. I’ll either stop it - or explain why we do it.

One of the first duties of Earthseed is to learn and then to teach.”

Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe.

To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God.”

I should copyright and publish for my own protection.

I came to believe he was right—for the future and for a reason in the present that Bankole had not mentioned.

How do they pay taxes without being noticed?

Whether that new norm will recognize our tax paying or my copyright, I don’t know.

People are still impressed, even intimidated, by bound, official-looking books.

Even people who can’t read are impressed by books.

Acknowledge and attend God, Learn from God, With forethought and intelligence, Imagination and industry, Shape God.

education is the most direct pathway to God.

flattering or begging God isn’t useful.

Praying does work. Praying is a very effective way of talking to yourself, of talking yourself into things, of focusing your attention on whatever it is you want to do.

It can give you a feeling of control and help you to stretch yourself beyond what you thought were your limits.”

“It doesn’t always work the way we want it to,” I said. “But it’s always worth the effort.”

Jarret,

Once he’s made everyone who isn’t like him sound evil, then he can blame them for problems he knows they didn’t cause. That’s easier than trying to fix the problems.”

I shouldn’t be here, living soft, eating good food, and reading books.

My life in retirement

Beware: At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.

Human competitiveness and territoriality were often at the root of particularly horrible fashions in oppression.

This is what almost destroyed the human race in Llilith’s Brood.

We human beings seem always to have found it comforting to have someone to took down on—a bottom level of fellow creatures who are very vulnerable, but who can somehow be blamed and punished for all or any troubles. We need this lowest class as much as we need equals to team with and to compete against and superiors to look to for direction and help.

Emery Mora

Since we can’t change the stupid, greedy, vicious things that powerful people do, they think we should try to ignore them.

a good phone news service

Canada and Russia—

The climate is still changing, warming. It’s supposed to settle at a new stable state someday. Until then, we’ll go on getting a lot of violent erratic weather around the world.