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Apis Dea's avatar

Thank you for your tenderness and insightful analysis. This work is very much my prayer for my grandchild and for all children of the future.

I drew inspiration from Octavia E. Butler’s book Parable of the Sower. I want to share a quote from Earthseed: The Book of the Living, written by the character Lauren Oya Olamina.

All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

I hope others join me in the prayer.

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Taylor Allyn's avatar

It’s my honor. To be seen is to feel. Through witness we return to what’s oldest in us—the need to connect, to tend, to remember together.

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Birgit / Mrs.Bimako's avatar

You review with the same qualities you describe — attention, care, continuity.

There’s a quiet integrity in the way you read this world.

Stunning work, Taylor.

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Taylor Allyn's avatar

Birgit, your words steadied me. This feature asked for a kind of attention that feels almost ceremonial, and to have you mirror that back tells me the piece reached the right kind of reader. You see the through-line, the care, the integrity behind how I read these writers and their worlds. Thank you 🙏🏾

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Birgit / Mrs.Bimako's avatar

Aye... I said it before and I'll say it again: your work is stunning, Taylor. Whatever I have read so far from you invites a slower reading, the kind where you catch the echoes between the lines.

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Taylor Allyn's avatar

I'm so humbled. Thank you for reading me in a way that feels lived-in, not rushed. It makes the work feel seen in the way it was made.

I appreciate your presence and your witness more than you know. <3

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Arthur R Flowers Jr's avatar

Impressive analysis, studying. It will improve my own command of narrative. You got skilzs.

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Taylor Allyn's avatar

Thank you so much! 🙏🏾

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Birgit / Mrs.Bimako's avatar

Looking forward to read this slowly!

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