Kindness Eases Change

     This is quoted from the excellent weekly digest by Maria Popova:

This is the weekly email digest of the daily online journal Brain Pickings by Maria Popova.

      Kindness eases change are the words of  

 

      "Octavia Butler (June 22, 1947–February 24, 2006) — another rare visionary — offered a glimmer of guidance in her sibylline two-part series set in the 2020s: Parable of the Sower (public library) and Parable of the Talents (public library) — a set of cautionary allegories, cautionary and future-protective in their keen prescription for course-correctives, about the struggle of a twenty-first-century society, Earthseed, to survive the ecological collapse, political corruption, corporate greed, and socioeconomic inequality it has inherited from the previous generations and their heedless choices."