Our civilization is engaged in a transformational shift. We’ve experienced them before — the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and when our species began to build cities and establish agriculture. At each of these moments, we have a choice — take the challenge and move forward, or turn away and fall back. Our choice this time…
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A Story of Connection
Everything is related, always. There is no end to this, and no beginning. It simply is. New Trails, by Jody Norman The world is random, purposeless, with no meaning. Nothing that happens matters, and nothing is connected. Everything is linear. “Intelligence, order, purpose, and design are illusions; underneath it all is merely a purposeless jumble…
Books I Recommend
Sung Home, by Laura Ramnarace This is a hopeful post-apocalyptic trilogy, and that descriptor intrigued me enough that I went and bought the book. I read it, then bought and read the sequel Growing Home, and then the final book of the series, Rising Home. I’m not a fan of apocalyptic stories, so this is…
How Do We Create a Sustainable Civilization?
It’s All About Worldbuilding This is my personal vision of what sustainability is, in its largest sense, and how we move forward with it. This understanding underlies my vision of the world of my New Trails series, which sometimes falls short (of course!) and sometimes outstrips us. But our challenges are that society’s challenges, too;…
Books I Recommend
The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix Harrow I love this book. This book of Doors, and magic, and liminal spaces just waiting for us to walk through, if we dare. I love the understanding that that mystery, and opening to it, is as necessary to souls, and to worlds, as anything rational ever…