Category: Dear reader from the future
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Dear reader from the future, I am writing this in yet another season of waiting in my life. Waiting—the kind I used to resist. But perhaps the difference this season is that the destination is clearer than it was a year or two years ago. I’d like to believe that I am now able to…
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Dear reader from the future, I just want to tell you about what my typical week is like so that you (or I) can have something to look back on (and probably compare with) a decade from now. When my husband and I run some errands, we bring our cat along. Novo has been a…
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Dear reader from the future, I just watched Tron: Ares last night. Two computer programs faced off—Ares and Athena—and their exchange struck a chord in me. “You’re out of time.” “And you’re out of lives.” The words hung and popped out from the screen, and I found myself thinking: what’s the difference? When we run…
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Dear reader from the future, How do you celebrate birthdays? Is buying stuff for gifts still a thing? Maybe after listening to many episodes of The Minimalists and reading The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, I think about all the stuff I have accumulated over…
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Dear reader from the future, Whenever provinces and cities get flooded in the Philippines, I always think about anthropogenic climate change. But there’s another problem that originates from human activity: greed. As the government poured out billions for adaptation efforts, bad actors found ways to steal what should have protected us from rising waters. But…
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Dear reader from the future, It’s easy to dwell in the present and make decisions based on what you know now. But even though you don’t feel like anything would change at all, you might not believe how different things will be a decade from now. The people you think less of might end up…
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Dear reader from the future, Sometimes, I get worried about my lack of knowledge of how to make things grow like in subsistence farming. What if another global collapse keeps goods from being transported to where they should go, and I only know how to get food from the supermarket, and the shelves will run…