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“The very act of trying to look ahead to discern possibilities and offer warnings is in itself an act of hope." --Octavia Butler

Mar 19, 2022, 6 tweets

Mostly I'm here to talk about climate and feminism and stuff, but I believe beauty helps us get through the days and the years and the burdens of history and sometimes points toward the possibilities. Ocean Beach, San Francisco. #beautyintermission 1/5

Yesterday was a good day for seafoam, leaving its signatures upon the shores. 2/5

"The city turned into sand and the sand into surf and the surf into ocean and just to know that the ocean went on for many thousands of miles was to know that there was an outer border to my own story, and even to human stories..." --The Faraway Nearby 3/5

"It was the familiar edge of the unknown, forever licking at the shore." --The Faraway Nearby 4/5

"The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself..." 5/5

p.s. Yesterday evening, I should've mentioned! We are blessed to live in a city with this as its western edge.

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