Scaggot 🍉

Who's got the time?

I followed them silently, dissected and enjoyed their scents, listened to their conversations. Sometimes they became aware that they were being followed, though they never saw me. My coloring had darkened and I hid easily in the shadows. The forest understory was usually wet or at least damp, and it was easy for me to move silently. The Humans I followed often made much more noise than I did. I watched a Human hunter make so much noise that the feeding peccary he was stalking heard him and ran away. The Human went to the place where the peccary had been feeding and he cursed and kicked the fruit the animal had been feeding on. It never occurred to him to eat the fruit or to collect some for his people. I ate some when he was gone."

Another favorite quote of mine, also from Grace Lee Boggs:

"We must transform ourselves to transform the world"

Let this be the winter of our discontent.

Endless thanks to @adriennemareebrown for introducing me to Grace in the article below:

With the news out of Minneapolis today, I felt like it might be a good time to grab my copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower off of my bookshelf. I flipped to the first entries in 2026 from Lauren Oya Olamina's journal and found two Earthseed verses:

2026 Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

10 When apparent stability disintegrates, As it must- God is Change- People tend to give in To fear and depression, To need and greed. When no influence is strong enough To unify people They divide. They struggle, One against one, Group against group, For survival, position, power. They remember old hates and generate new ones, They create chaos and nurture it. They kill and kill and kill, Until they are exhausted and destroyed, Until they are conquered by outside forces, Or until one of them becomes A leader Most will follow, Or a tyrant Most fear. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

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