Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.