And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

I am so sorry to hear this and also, this is beautiful. You are indeed lucky to have had so much clarity of love and care and life in her.

I look forward to checking this out!

Omg I just watched the trailer I am IN

Yes! Terraformers is up there with Chambers’ Wayfarers series for me.

Glad to hear you remaining so upbeat despite this! Incidents like this, even when minimal, have really been weighing on me.

Evergreen

A students so frequently want the extra credit anyway, I find!

I understand the impulse to direct it to certain circumstances, but no, I don’t think it works to say (for instance) you can use it to get from a C to a B, but not from a B to an A.