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Sunday, August 17, 2025

All struggles

All struggles

Are essentially

power struggles.

Who will rule,

Who will lead,

Who will define,

refine,

confine,

design,

Who will dominate.

All struggles

Are essentially

power struggles,

And most

are no more intellectual

than two rams

knocking their heads together.

—Earthseed: The Books of the Living

Saturday, August 17, 2024

Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay

God is Power—

Infinite,

Irresistible,

Inexorable,

Indifferent.

And yet God is Pliable —

Trickster,

Teacher,

Chaos,

Clay.

God exists to be shaped.

God is Change.

Earthseed: the Books of the Living

Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Simplicity is a Blessing

Sometimes simplicity is exactly the blessing that I need.

Second batch has garlic and chicken strips with mushrooms in a white miso with black rice noodles. Perfect for this rainy day that has turned stormy and now includes a tornado watch overnight.

Monday, August 17, 2020

Monday Mood

Happy Monday, y'all!

1. Loyalty.
2. Forbearance: self-control towards others.
3. Hardihood.
4. Generosity: not just a simple matter of giving away what one has, but "Largitas in a man caused him to set no store on greed or gifts, and to have nothing but contempt for bribes."
5. Benevolence. The Davidic ethic: It is the strongest quality of the preudomme - benevolence of the strong toward the weak.
6. Honor: honor is achieved by living up to the ideal of the preudomme and pursuing the qualities and behavior listed above.

7. Championship: everywhere and always be the champion of the Right and the Good against Injustice and Evil.

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