This one is about a book I read...

I love talking to my family. I really appreciate that Ilana sees a passion to learn and gave me a bunch of authors and books to read. I’m starting with Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. I’m only 5% into it, according to my Kindle, and Butler paints quite the dystopia: a harrowing juxtaposition of walled-up neighborhoods who can’t afford water, whose children make themselves dirty so as to not get bullied, and extravagant missions to Mars underwritten by the “Department of Astronautics.” The 15 year-old protagonist has quite a resolute understanding of a higher being that is really interesting. As “the literal truth,” she writes:

God is Power—

Infinite,

Irresistible,

Inexorable,

Indifferent.

And yet, God is Pliable—

Trickster,

Teacher,

Chaos,

Clay.

God Exists to be shaped.

God is Change.

Imma sit with that for a little bit. “Teacher, Trickster, Chaos, Clay.” The shaped and the shapers.