Esme & Dad

People recommended this book so many times - and wow(!) for a good reason. Now one of my all-time favorites!

Revisado: 05-26-25

Octavia Butler has created a world and characters that fascinate. Apocalyptic, often including hard-to-hear descriptions of life in a “future” U.S. that is suffering climate change and social breakdown. Yet, shimmering with wisdom (in the form of “Earth Seed” philosophy and due to the main character’s deep thought and gathered wisdoms). A tale of the importance of community mindedness and kindness and yet with an unflinching, real-world clear vision to the wrongs that humans often do to one another. The language is beautiful yet unfussy. I couldn’t stop listening! The performance was superb! Wow! Just wow to the whole experience. Now one of my favorite books and characters ever.

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Hard AND healing truths for my wounded liberal soul. Onward to Abundance!

Revisado: 04-06-25

This. Is. So. Good.

Hard AND healing truths that gave me a new frame of reference to think about what is happening in the current moment.

I learned a tremendous amount about what was previously very puzzling and unclear to me. Namely, why “liberal” prosperous places that were putting major money toward the “right” projects aimed at improving inequalities in housing, healthcare, mass transportation and schooling were failing to make positive changes despite huge amounts of money being spent.

This book scratched an itch that was calling to me from the depths of my mind. Having been quite struck by an episode of the Hidden Brain podcast on the neuroscience of scarcity complex many years ago I’d been watching myself and others make poor decisions when we felt scarcities grip (it’s proven neuroscience - check out the episode if your curious). I could apply the learnings from this fascinating science for myself but couldn’t overlay it on what was happening in US (and world) politics very well until now. This book was the key to connecting those dots.

I now have clarity about what we need to do, and how we might frame the work, in order to best support the health and vitality of both the US and the world (and address climate change urgently).

Thank you Ezra and Darrick for your clear eyed vision!

Onward to Abundance!

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Amazing world-building. Thought provoking. Utterly enjoyable.

Revisado: 02-21-25

I loved every minute of this thought provoking, amazing world-building story. The voicing was perfect as well.

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