CHANGE: A CONNECTING THREAD 

"Everyone knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season..."), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom. But I don't believe we're dealing with all that that means. We haven't even begun to deal with it. 

We give lip service to acceptance, as though acceptance were enough. Then we go on to create super-people—super-parents, super-kings and queens, super-cops—to be our gods and to look after us—to stand between us and God. Yet God has been here all along, shaping us and being shaped by us in no particular way or in too many ways at once like an amoeba—or like a cancer. Chaos. 

Even so, why can't I do what others have done—ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in the world." 

Earthseed: The Books of the Living
by Lauren Oya Olamina

—Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower