Thanks so much for this Kathleen. I had just tweeted how covid was just a warm up. As an essential worker in covid it is now all eerily similar but with no longer ignorable global warming and fascists.
I am grateful that the goddesses chose us worthy to connect. Your words bring much comfort albeit also an opportunity to scream into the void together. And burn candles instead of teslas. xx
Thank you for reading. I had just been consoling myself over the fact that I set this story in 2029 thinking that gave me enough time to set the scene for a believable political apocalypse - and it took less time to get there than it did to write the first third of the novel. So that's depressing. But I have to keep writing because there's something in this story that is saving me. And I am also grateful for our connection - I keep your postcard on my corkboard and it always lightens my day.
Excellent description of the division that came with COVID-19. I remember reading at the time about the last major plague, about 100 years earlier, only to find we did the same thing: believers, non-believers, and conspiracy theories dividing families and friends. Still, I have hope that we'll do better.
The more we go through as a species, the more I hear the refrain "people are people". It's frustrating, yes, but also reassuring. At our worst and at our best, that's people.
Thanks so much for this Kathleen. I had just tweeted how covid was just a warm up. As an essential worker in covid it is now all eerily similar but with no longer ignorable global warming and fascists.
I am grateful that the goddesses chose us worthy to connect. Your words bring much comfort albeit also an opportunity to scream into the void together. And burn candles instead of teslas. xx
Thank you for reading. I had just been consoling myself over the fact that I set this story in 2029 thinking that gave me enough time to set the scene for a believable political apocalypse - and it took less time to get there than it did to write the first third of the novel. So that's depressing. But I have to keep writing because there's something in this story that is saving me. And I am also grateful for our connection - I keep your postcard on my corkboard and it always lightens my day.
Excellent description of the division that came with COVID-19. I remember reading at the time about the last major plague, about 100 years earlier, only to find we did the same thing: believers, non-believers, and conspiracy theories dividing families and friends. Still, I have hope that we'll do better.
The more we go through as a species, the more I hear the refrain "people are people". It's frustrating, yes, but also reassuring. At our worst and at our best, that's people.