It’s Ursula Le Guin’s birthday. “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

Observation mode.

This is so lit.

She changed me, and I’m not exaggerating. The one thing that followed me through life from having read Earthsea at 12, was to face my fears. It has made a world of a difference.

Either your momentum is your own, or you are unconsciously enslaved. Thankfully, these absolutes have a generous sliding scale of potential enablement.

I'd like to say I wore this t-shirt yesterday because I knew that. Instead, I wore it because I occasionally like to wear communist and Marxist t-shirts to work.

Love her so much. ❤️🎂

If you haven't listened to A Wizard of Earthsea read by Harlan Ellison, you're absolutely missing out.

Measured by both length and depth of influence, Le Guin is my most important author. I first read her work in 6th grade and immediately found, among many other things, the epitaph I've since hoped to earn.

Everyone should read "Words are My Matter," her memoir/speeches/book review collection.

The Left Hand of Darkness remains one of my all time most cherished sci-fi novels, and was my introduction to Le Guin. I remember finishing it and just sitting in silence for awhile thinking about the experience.