{"id":1040,"date":"2025-02-01T17:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T17:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2025-02-02T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T14:26:14","slug":"february-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/february-1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"February 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lauren Olamina\u2019s journal entry for today <strong>February 1, 2025<\/strong> in <strong><em>Parable of the Sower<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em>from<em> <\/em>1993, by <strong>Octavia E. Butler<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWe had a fire today. People worry so much about fire, but the little kids will play with it if they can.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also today, in the same location written about by Butler, the Eaton and Palisades fires that burned for nearly a month, were finally announced 100% contained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2000, in an essay she wrote for <em>Essence<\/em>, Butler wrote, \u201cI didn\u2019t make up the problems. <strong>All I did was look around at the problems<\/strong> we\u2019re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow in to full-fledged disasters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo. I mean <strong>there\u2019s no single answer<\/strong> that will solve all of our future problems. There\u2019s no magic bullet. 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