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For some reason it’s much harder for me to get into this series from Tchaikovsky compared to his sci-fi work.

“Wherever slavery exists it gives birth to souls of the same kind.
What hope is there for Russia if even her greatest prophets cannot tell freedom from slavery?”

“…only one form of retribution is visited upon an executioner-the fact that he looks upon his victim as something other than a human being and thereby ceases to be a human being himself, and thereby executes himself as a human being. He is his own executioner. While the man who has been done in, has been executed, remains a human being for all eternity, no matter how he has been murdered.”
p. 144

I forgot how devastating Parable of the Talents is. It’s almost too much for me to read it in today’s political climate.

Done with Parable of the Sower. Still such a powerful and moving read. It feels more relevant every day.

I’ve shed a few tears reading through these personal vignettes of loss, trauma, and yearning. Looking forward to how the rest goes.

Just covered Houston’s Allison and Harvey. Always glad I escaped that city when I did and never had to suffer through one of the disasters.

Twentieth century drilling for oil in south Louisiana prompts changing of the landscape for industry, sinking of the land, and burning of fossil fuels that in turn fuels climate change and more destructive flooding.

I think a lot about large cultures and civilizations vanishing due to cataclysm, invasion, and plague, but it’s surreal to think that we’re watching little vanishings happen in real time.

So far we’ve covered 2017 Hurricane Irma in the Florida Keys, 1999 Hurricane Floyd in Kinston, NC, and the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, CA.

The past few week’s fires in LA fit into this pattern. The choices we make about where we settle and what investments we make to slow/reverse/adapt to climate change are the most importantly decisions, but I fear it’s too late with our current geopolitical alignment.

The short stories of each disaster and how it all winds together for the larger picture is a great way to tell this story that we’re experiencing every day.