06/22/2026
Today would have been Octavia Butler’s birthday.
We found this formerly library copy of Kindred, which has already lived several lives.
A librarian shelved it ➡ A reader checked it out.
A teacher may have assigned it ➡ A student may have argued about it.
A book club may have passed it around.
Now it’s here, waiting for the next person.
What feels especially fitting about Butler is that so much of her work asks a simple question:
**What do we owe each other?**
Her stories explored community, resilience, education, and the ways people build better futures together… even when the world feels uncertain.
This worn copy is proof that books don’t change communities by sitting on shelves, but by moving through them.
What is a book that you feel could help our community if it found its way into someone’s hands?
