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From Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
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November 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
A photo of a young child on the beach in a pink and black halter dress blows bubbles at sunset while holding a basket for wedding flower petals. White text reads, “33. Pray working Respect God:
Pray working.
Pray learning,
planning,
doing.
Pray creating,
teaching,
reaching.
Pray working.
Pray to focus your thoughts,
still your fears,
strengthen your purpose.
Respect God.
Shape God.
Pray working. ∞ = Δ”
October 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
A photograph of a pond in summer is scattered with lilly pads and pink water lilies in bloom. Reeds border the pond and a colorful art display hands suspended above the pond, reflecting slightly off of the pond’s surface. White text over the picture reads, “32. Your teachers Your teachers
Are all around you.
All that you perceive,
All that you experience,
All that is given to you
or taken from you,
All that you love or hate,
need or fear
Will teach you—
If you will learn.
God is your first
and your last teacher.
God is your harshest teacher:
subtle,
demanding.
Learn or die. ∞ = Δ”
October 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
A photograph of a toddler with one long braid, crouching to see a penguin through observation glass at an aviary has white text that reads, “31. Sculptor and Clay As wind,
As water,
As fire,
As life,
God
Is both creative and destructive,
Demanding and yielding,
Sculptor and clay.
God is Infinite Potential:
God is Change. ∞ = Δ”
October 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
A dirt path in a green forest with tall deciduous trees leads back to a bend. White text is overlaid stating, “30. Shape Self The Self must create
Its own reasons for being.
To shape God,
Shape Self. ∞ = Δ”
October 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Know your rights, Illinois.

Stay safe and stay informed.
Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub. 1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything. For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/ Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub. For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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It’s strategic and targeted.
August 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
An adult person and a child look over the city of Pittsburgh from Mt. Washington. Cerulean clouds are mixed with clouds that have light pouring through them. Text from Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ reads: 29. The rest of what we need God is neither good nor evil,
neither loving
nor hating.
God is Power.
God is Change.
We must find the rest of what we need
within ourselves,
in one another,
in our Destiny. ∞ = Δ
June 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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you can report ice checkpoints in waze using "police" or "bad weather --> icy conditions"
June 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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"You can cover your faces, we can still tell you're pigs"
Seen in Seattle
June 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A short and worthy read!
This photo is a screenshot of the “I Hate Men” Audiobook cover by Pauline Harmange.
May 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
The end of an orange sunset can just barely be seen on the horizon of a twilight sky. In the foreground, a stream wends between trees shaded to near darkness. On the right side text reads, “28. The Galaxies Changes.
The galaxies move through space.
The stars ignite,
burn,
age,
cool,
Evolving.
God is Change.
God prevails. ∞ = Δ”
April 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
Yellow flowers bloom around dark green leaves. White text on the right side says, “27. A Gathering of Earthseed Once or twice
each week
A Gathering of Earthseed
is a good and necessary thing.
It vents emotion, then
quiets the mind.
It focuses attention,
strengthens purpose, and
unifies people. ∞ = Δ”
April 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
A photo of an orange and yellow sunset through slate gray clouds above the bay on Long Beach Island New Jersey. A portion of a dock is on the left, a pair of ducks floats on the right. White text over the picture states: 26. Embrace diversity Embrace diversity.
Unite—
Or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed. ∞ = Δ
April 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The US backed Israel committed the largest child massacre in a single day last week, killing over 200 children. In addition it killed 100 women and at least 200 men.

This was done with US bombs and the blessing of the US government. No widespread media coverage or global condemnation.
© HAARETZ Opinion Opinion | Ignoring Massacres in Gaza City While Protesting for Democracy in Tel Aviv How is it possible to square the defense of Israel's democratic values with a situation in which on the other side tens of thousands of Palestinian lives are being cut short in a single blow? Hanin Majadli Mar 21, 2025 Follow Israel recently committed the largest child massacre in its history. Two hundred children and 100 women were
March 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
A photograph shows the sun shining as it sets over the Beaver Valley in Western Pennsylvania. Over nearly leafless trees and a low rock fence, text reads, “25. Cast on new ground Earthseed
Cast on new ground
Must first perceive
That it knows nothing. ∞ = Δ”
January 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
Three toddlers stand in a photograph at the edge of a pond, looking into it at sunset. Text reads, “24. Kindness Kindness eases Change. ∞ = Δ”
January 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
A black and white photograph of a smoky phoenix tattooed in between my shoulder blades has white text on the left that reads, “23. A Phoenix In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn. ∞ = Δ”
January 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
A toddler’s hand can be seen gripping the chain of a swing on the left side of the photograph. In the background sunlight dapples the green leaves of deciduous trees. Text reads, “22. Earthlife We are Earthseed. We are flesh—self aware,
questing, problem-solving flesh. We are that
aspect of Earthlife best able to shape God
knowingly. We are Earthlife maturing, Earthlife
preparing to fall away from the parent world.
We are Earthlife preparing to take root in
new ground, Earthlife fulfilling its purpose,
its promise, its Destiny. ∞ = Δ”
January 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
A photograph of the mist coming off of the fountain at Point State Park in Pittsburgh creates a rainbow. In the background, tall buildings reach into a clear sky. White text reads, “21. What a living world will demand There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you. ∞ = Δ”
January 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
White text in a black box over a massive covering of twinkling string lights reads, “16. Civilization is to intelligence 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. ∞ = Δ”
January 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
Snow blows over a darkened sky in a photograph of hanging star-shaped lights at a display at the Pittsburgh Botanical Gardens. Text reads, “20. Life that perceives itself changing We are Earthseed
The life that perceives itself
Changing. ∞ = Δ”
January 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
Large green leaves are propagating ina glass vase on a window sill. Text over the photograph reads, “19. All successful life All successful life is
Adaptable,
Opportunistic,
Tenacious,
Interconnected, and
Fecund.
Understand this.
Use it.
Shape God. ∞ = Δ”
January 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
A photograph shows a coniferous tree trunk is in the foreground with a blurred sunset over a field and other green/golden leaves of trees on a fall day. Text reads, “18. Any change Any Change may bear seeds of benefit.
Seek them out.
Any Change may bear seeds of harm.
Beware.
God is infinitely malleable.
God is Change. ∞ = Δ”
January 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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#earthseed #booksoftheliving #octaviabutler
Small white text is printed over a blurred picture of a sun setting through green shrubs. It reads, “17. When stability disintegrates 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. ∞ = Δ”
January 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM