Giving my voice (and you 😉) the night off. Instead, please enjoy this audio of Octavia Butler at a panel discussion at UCLA in 2002.

FYI, this book sounds great:

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

"Susana M. Morris places Butler’s story firmly within the cultural, social, and historical context that shaped her life: the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, women’s liberation, queer rights, Reaganomics. Morris reveals how these influences profoundly impacted Butler’s personal and intellectual trajectory and shaped the ideas central to her writing"

Added to my post-diary reading list ☑️

I do my best work behind the scenes 🎭

Live from the ladies room of the Growler Garage 🧻

(Had to edit out some juicy gossip ✂️ People I don't know dishing on other people I don't know. Now I know too much! )

"We are born, not with purpose, but with potential"

Aikido is The Art of Peace 🕊️

"Parables can be understood only from within"

- James R. Edwards 

"Frankenstein is a parable for the rise and fall of artificial intelligence"

- Cherie Hazzard (Where does it say I can't quote myself? )

Five Postulates of a Spiritual Vision for the Internet

1. In the Virtual World, There Is Only The Present
2. To Be ON the Internet Is Not To Be OF the Internet
3. Virtual Communion Can Lessen Isolation
4. We Must Re-Imagine the Sacraments in the Virtual World
5. We Must Transcend Obsolescence

The virtual world makes us disembodied and discarnate - we become angels.

Online, we are more than our bodies - we are all soul.

Rats! Mispronounced Ffynnon - again. I really need a mnemonic... How about, 'Huckleberry Finn, under the moonlit sky' - Finn-un - got it! 

...then I found this in 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'...

"As I lay there, I smoked my tobacco and looked into the sky - not a cloud was in it. The sky looks very deep when you lie down on your back in the moonlight"

...which got me thinking about this...

Moon River, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style someday
Oh, dream maker
You heartbreaker
Wherever you're going, you're going my way

Two drifters off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end
Waiting 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend
Moon River and me

...Did you know Huck Finn faked his own death? Could it be the work of the Amelia Project?!

(How's that for polyfusion, Quel? ... Ok, don't answer that )

🌼 A Daisy a Day Drives the Doldrums Away 😊

You can't force polyfusion

“Twenty-five hundred years of rational culture are in the process of dissolution. Age-old habits of conceptualization will not serve to train observation on the effects of the new man-made forms of energy. Since Plato, philosophers and scientists have attributed constant forms and patterns of action only to the world of ‘Nature.’ Both Plato and Aristotle, and their followers, as well as all the other schools of philosophy, have refused to recognize any patterns of energy arising from man-made technologies. Having invented ‘Nature’ as a world of rigorous order and repetition, they studied and observed only ‘natural’ forms as having power to shape and influence psyche and society. The world of man’s artifacts was considered neutral until the electric age. As the electric environment increasingly engulfed the old Greek ‘Nature,’ it became apparent that ‘Nature’ was a figure abstracted from a ground of existence that was far from ‘natural.’”

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