{"title":"GIFTS FOR NEW GRADS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eYou've earned the degree — now build the life that comes after it. 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Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a writer rooted in Detroit who now lives in Durham, NC. She is a student of the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin. 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