Wow. What a reread. I wasn't ready, I suppose, when I first read these books back around 10 years ago, in 2011 or 2012. They did move me, but after another 10 years of experiencing enough denial, enough of people simply refusing to believe the truth, now I can see this book very differently, particularly Parable of the Talents.

And now, having written two more books, I can see the process that Olamina went through to build a seed, and the need for a major difficult goal and a plan to get there.

That's what I've been working on intensively over the last year, but actually since about 2009 pondering the ideas.

This book, and the three movements that it spawned, have given me hope that my own book, that lays out a plan for kind of society in about 60 to 80 years, is possible. Education and adaptability are both possible.

And empathy, even too much empathy, is not a bad thing.

Thank you to our prophet, to Octavia butler.