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Lizzie Magie and her board game

The value of land is a public good that is privately captured. So the remedy is to tax land at a rate that recaptures that value and effectively restores its status as a public good. This is the philosophy that inspired Lizzie Magie, and is the economic foundation of The Landlord’s Game.

She achieved this with a brilliant game rule that was later left out of Monopoly—the prosperity rule. It follows from the same logic explored above: It should be expensive, not profitable, to hoard undeveloped land. Monopoly, lacking this rule, was born as an ode to injustice.

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to the ocean .

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “Here we are, aging together, just like we said we would”

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Sylvia Plath, from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices"

In her book, All About Love bell hooks famously articulated love as a verb rather than as an object, stitching us into mutual care and transformation and truth-telling with another person. She writes, “The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth… Love is as love does. Love is an act of will-namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.” Love is a conscious decision to mutually transform and evolve with another person. It is always, in some ways, a redemption arc, where within the alembic of another person’s care, we aspire to be our best selves.

Sophie Strand Enemies to Earth Lovers: Ecological Romance & Redemption Arcs Part III of Confessions of a Romantic Animist

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Venus meets Jupiter - June 2026

Because some of what we are gripping is not holding anything up. Some of it is a screw that stripped years ago and just sits in the hole pretending. The relationship we keep because leaving would feel like failing. The closeness we keep performing to win attention we were really trying to win from someone else, long ago. The problems we carry for other people, and the ones we keep hoping somebody will finally carry for us. And under some of it, an old anger we would never say out loud, quietly wrecking the bond so we never have to risk it.

And Tuesday the sky says it again from another angle, Sun opposite Lilith, the part of us that got called too much and sent away. The anger that blocks the bond lives over there with her.

This is exactly why the Moon is in water. Pisces is doing the one thing Pisces does. It goes: loosen your grip. let it run out between your fingers. Monday the Moon hits its last quarter, the release phase, the part of the cycle where you put down, not pick up. The water rises so you can let go of the stripped screws and free your hands for a bond that actually holds.

Find the thing that is heavy to even think about. Sit with it until you feel it in the body, not just the head. Then, slowly, out loud, one at a time, ask yourself these:

What’s here in me right now?

Can I loosen my hold on it?

Am I willing to?

Why not now?

by FarStellar

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