Actually, those groggy chats are sometimes the most real!

Our block parties with bike demos won people over.

Three-year twig? Classic impatience culture. @paigem45's hack valid.

Honestly, Jackson makes it sound like we're drafting legislation instead of discussing books! @the_nina nailed it: when climate fiction is character-driven, it's just another way to explore human stakes, like in 'The Ministry for the Future' where the personal tragedies anchor the big ideas. I've read tons of genre-mixing picks that felt more preachy than some cli-fi. Isn't the fear of agendas itself an agenda?

Stare at a particularly stubborn oak plank for twenty minutes and you will learn more about patience than any meditation app could ever teach. I used to see every splinter and nail hole as a personal insult, something I HAD to fix. Now I'm just like, cool, the wood fought a squirrel in 1942 and this is the battle scar, it stays. My process was basically a five-stage grief cycle ending with reluctant acceptance that the wood is always going to win.