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“It’s better to teach people than to scare them”

“‘These things frighten people. It’s best not to talk about them.’

‘But… that’s like ignoring a fire in the living room because we’re all in the kitchen and besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.’”

It’s giving “don’t talk about sex, religion, and politics”

“I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. there is something brought alive during play. and this something, when played with seems to play back. “

“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.”

“There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind of story with hopelessness in it.”

lesson from a banned book: dialectics

“‘People have changed the climate of the world. Now they’re waiting for the good old days to come back.’

‘Your father says he doesn't believe people changed the climate in spite of what scientists say. He says only God could change the world in such an important way…

‘My father has his blind spots… He's the best person I know, but even he has blind spots.’

“The police…may be able to avenge you, but they can’t protect you.”

Maturing is realizing the police, by definition, do not exist to prevent crime.

“Donner has a plan for putting people back to work. He hopes to get laws changed, suspend ‘overly restrictive’ minimum wage, environmental, and worker protection laws…

Will it be legal to poison, mutilate, or infect people— as long as you provide them with food, water, and space to die?”

Octavia Butler was out here predicting Project 2025 in the 90s damn

“Hey, we can run a space station, a station on the moon, and soon, a colony on Mars. That proves we're still a great, forward-looking, powerful nation, right?“

sounds familiar.

“Old Testament… God sounds a lot like Zeus-a super-powerful man, playing with his toys the way my youngest brothers play with toy soldiers. Bang, bang! Seven toys fall dead. If theyre yours, you make the rules. Who cares what the toys think. Wipe out a toy's family, then give it a brand new fam-ily. Toy children, like Job's children, are interchangeable.

Maybe God is a kind of big kid, playing with his toys.”

There are over 700 known dead so far. One hurricane. And how many people has it hurt? How many are going to starve later because of destroyed crops? That's nature. Is it God? 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?

Some say God is a spirit, a force, an ultimate reality. Ask seven people what all of that means and you'll get seven different answers. So what is God? Just another name for whatever makes you feel special and protected?

“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.”

“I saw at least three people who weren't going to wake up again, ever. One of them was headless. I caught myself looking around for the head.”

The casual way she says this is so shocking to me.

Then again, many people are casual about roadkill, even though it’s chilling to me every time I see an animal dead in such a violent way.

All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God
Is Change.



i read ‘change so many times it stopped feeling like a real word

“my fear wasn’t some kind of rare artisanal object. it was just a mass produced item, available on the shelves of any generic box store. and that’s the thing I wanted to build my entire identity around? The most boring instinct I possessed? The panic reflex of my dumbest inner tadpole?”

This makes me think of the study that showed conservatives have more activity in the fear centers of their brains

“my fear was boring because it was identical to everyone else’s fear”

the Aquarian need in me to be unique needed to hear this

“if I’d had my way I would’ve spent… my entire childhood indoors snuggled on my mother‘s lap in low light preferably with a cool wash cloth on my forehead.”

the best artists are almost all undiagnosed autistic girlies

Elizabeth Gilbert out here listing off every single fear that stops me from making art including, but not limited to:

“you’re afraid your work isn’t politically, emotionally, or artistically important enough to change anyone’s life”

and

“you’re afraid you’re too fat”

feeling slightly called out

On sex magic

“The life force energy we harness in sex is potent but neutral… It’s like fire or water, it’s not bad or good. You can burn down your house with fire or create warmth.”

“It has always been easier to hex than to heal.”

The type of magic Bri writes about in this book is highly influenced by her experience as a woman of color.

The use of many of these powerful techniques have been necessary for the women in her family to use under the trauma of oppression.

This book has made me understand the context in which the spells my mom always told me to stay away from were written.

Grandma Sylvia

“Her cunning and strong presence was too much for many people. I now recognize that being ‘too much’ is true strength and power.”

I think every woman who feels afraid to take up space would benefit from reading this book

“learning to trust yourself is the most important healing magic”

“What does embracing personal power feel like? It feels like ease.

Personal power feels like authenticity, like stripping away the urge to perform for others.

It feels like clarity and certainty. It feels like being okay with not being accepted by everyone.

You are not for everyone.”

“Your boundaries are a form of protective magic.”

~Honor the Dead~

“It’s important to remember that creating an ancestral or remembrance altar is an affirmation of a person’s life rather than a continual mourning for a loss”

~Becoming~

“Many women have been taught to ignore or discredit their intuition, or what some might call “psychic senses” for fear of being called crazy or facing ridicule from friends or family.

Eventually, we lose the connection to… ourselves.”

Sometimes magic is as simple as… slowing down and being present with your innermost self, and creating a meaningful ritual for this moment.

When you feel like you are simply trying to survive another day, performing meaningful rituals can feel like pulling yourself out of the depths of hell. That is where the power of transformation can be found.

Who is this book written for? The author answers:

“Those…who have a passion for developing their powers and their intuition in their day-to-day life”

“Do not mistake her softness, vulnerability, sensitivity, compassion, love, resilience, or silence for weakness.”