{"id":4363,"date":"2023-10-01T02:35:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T06:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/ursula-k-le-guin-on-change-menopause-as-rebirth-and-the-civilizational-value-of-elders-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-10-01T02:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T06:35:49","slug":"ursula-k-le-guin-on-change-menopause-as-rebirth-and-the-civilizational-value-of-elders-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/ursula-k-le-guin-on-change-menopause-as-rebirth-and-the-civilizational-value-of-elders-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cGod is Change,\u201d Octavia Butler wrote<\/a>, wresting the poetic truth from the scientific fact that entropy is the ruling law of the universe<\/a>. <\/p>\n

We know that everything changes, that everything passes, transitions from one state to another, from one stage to another \u2014 and yet, in our irrational longing for permanence<\/a>, we try and try to hedge against change, denounce it as deterioration, dread it as a prelude to death. <\/p>\n

Nowhere is this dread more acute than in the changes incurred by the body, that crucible of the soul<\/a>. And no one has offered a greater salve for it than Ursula K. Le Guin<\/strong> (October 21, 1929\u2013January 22, 2018) in one of the essays from her altogether indispensable 1989 collection Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>), which also gave us her reflections on writing and where ideas come from<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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