In honor of Ursula K Le Guin

It's time to get creative, since I won't be able to type for several more weeks. I had my wrist surgery on Friday and everything went very well. If you are a medical nerd and would like to see the x-rays and the wound, reply to this email and I'll share them with you.Searching for simple inspiration for today I discovered that the writer Ursula K Le Guin died on this day in 2018. I was never much into science fiction but I did read her when I was in college and shortly after college in the '70s. I have followed her life somewhat as she has become a well-known feminist and an outspoken person regarding human rights and so many of the issues that interest me. In many ways, she was ahead of her time writing about the destruction of the land belonging to indigenous peoples, creating androgynous characters that were not clearly male or female, and expanding her writing into poetry, short story, prose, autobiography, and more.I've linked to her website below and am sharing a few quotes of hers. I hope these feed your mindset this week.I continue to thank you for your patience as I recover from my injury.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Ursula K. Le Guin - Author

Ursula K. Le Guin was author of 21 novels, 11 volumes of short stories, 4 collections of essays, 12 children’s books, six volumes of poetry and 4 of translation.

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