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August 14 - October 14, 2020
Your God promotes change, but he stays the same.”
Travis
“God promotes nothing. Nothing at all.”
Antonio Cortez,
Tori Mora
“To take action is to change. It’s to go from action to inaction.
And he goes from calmness to anger—he get...
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Doe
Haha.
“Every time any god is accepted by a new group of people, that god changes,”
Harry Balter
Marta Figuero...
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Diamond Scott
The truth is, I let him speak today because I wanted him to speak before he was truly ready.
Haha
To make peace with others, Make peace with yourself: Shape God With generosity And compassion. Minimize harm. Shield the weak. Treasure the innocent. Be true to the Destiny. Forgive your enemies. Forgive yourself.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2033
Sacramento
Jorge Cho, Esteban Peralta, Antonio Figueroa,
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2033
He seems to have decided that the unity, the Christianity and the hope that Jarret has brought to the country makes Jarret not the monster we all feared but a potential savior.
Uh-oh ....
“The Destiny is important for the lessons it forces us to learn while we’re here on Earth, for the people it encourages us to become. It’s important for the unity and purpose that it gives us here on Earth.
And in the future, it offers us a kind of species adulthood and species immortality when we scatter to the stars.”
Zahra Balter,
Michael Kardos
SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2033
Ramiro Peralta
Pilar
Esteban P...
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If Jarret does crack down on people who don’t fit into his religious notions, they don’t want to be here at Acorn.
We learn at least as much by discussion as by lecture, demonstration, or experience.”
Perhaps that’s what a collar teaches—a horrible kind of self-control.
Ramiro, the father; Pilar, 18; Esteban, 17; and Eva,
THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2033
Dan Noyer
Gray Mora and Zahra Balter.
Change-sister
Change-aunt
Harry and I have gotten comfortable with the truck’s computers. In our earlier lives down south, we both used our parents’ computers. We’re unusual.
Along with the trucks ability to “see” in the dark via infrared, ambient light, or radar, it also has very good “hearing,” and an incorrectly designated sense of “smell.”
He wasn’t involved in this, and his duty was to hold his position and guard the other most likely approach to Acorn.
It had taken a while for us to learn not to be distracted by people who might rattle the front door while their friends slipped in through the back.
Dan Noyer
Nina Noyer.
both have what Bankole calls, “the usual infections and tissue damage.”
And in the end, what would it cost him? In the end, did that matter?
FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2033
“But Dan did it,” I said more to myself than to him. “He found his sister, and he brought her home. It was impossible, but he did it!”
Clever
Two of the intruders were wearing black sweatshirts with white crosses embroidered on them—embroidered, not printed. These weren’t the long tunics that Aubrey Dovetree mentioned, but they were interesting imitations.
They’re all as illegal as hell and as common as oranges.
Haha
