Octavia Butler Opened Parable of the Sower with Today's Date

On This Date: Embodying Stillness to Effectively Honor

I live for days like this. I love it when I stumble across “on this day” archival posts. This is a personal archival post that I have been looking forward to for a long time. This short excerpt is from Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler & is dated with today’s date. The book was originally published 31 years ago in 1993. I hope this reminder of Octavia’s text lands exactly how you need it to land with you today. This is a short message to say I see you & thank you to Octavia Butler.

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