Get to the question behind the question, get to the heart of the thing

a little experiment in questions, a little writing, a simple post to kick off week 3 in a creative new way

I recently reread Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. The new edition has a lovely introduction by Levar Burton, who helped to nurture my own love of reading when I was a child. (Reading Rainbow, anyone?) Sigh.

Butler was prolific in many ways, and she predicted what has been too often predictable: the way an inquenchable hunger for power by some …