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Category: J.Z. Colby

On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak.

communication, nebador, ship, silence

The world has many places that can make us uncomfortable. Calling them evil, or any other bad name, doesn’t make them go away.

evil, nebador, uncomfortable

I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement … anywhere … ever.

adventure, educational, personal-power, science-fiction, young-adult

The universe is so arranged that the power to destroy the climate or the ecosystem of your home planet only comes when you also have the wisdom to know that doing so is a fatal mistake. Therefore, any species that does that is suicidal, and will probably not qualify for any kind of help, from the powers of the universe, with fixing that error.

climate, ecosystem, nebador, suicide

I can’t feel too sorry for them. Every gift has to run out someday. Anyone but a child knows that.

We only refer to sapient creatures as civilized when their society is willingly self-correcting. That means that any problem or imbalance that arises is fixed, and I mean really fixed – not ignored, not hidden, and not passed off to a future generation.

civilization, nebador

No, I will finish what I started, here, at Glimpa’s Arch. The act belongs to me, the consequence, pleasing or not, belongs to the gods.

actions, consequences, god, nebador

If you can’t see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it’s just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly.

ethics, nebador, politics

No, this isn’t right. I don’t think the people doing it know or care about right and wrong. This is all some kind of show, but I don’t understand it either.

I’m just a girl trying to learn where to put my feet … and where not to.

I don’t think Tera is capable of working with you by her own choice, no matter how much grass you pull for her, no matter how much you brush her. I think she’s more like … a three or four-year-old child, and you are her mother. Mothers must be firm with their children, sometimes make them do what needs to be done, sometimes even punish them.

animals, children, nebador, training

I’m just a girl trying to learn where to put my feet … and where not to.