Hope: An Owner's Manual

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November 4, 2020

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Hope: An Owner's Manual

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

- Rebecca Solnit -

Hope: An Owner's Manual

"Look, you might as well know, this thing is going to take endless repair: rubber bands, crazy glue, tapioca, the square of the hypotenuse. Nineteenth century novels. Heartstrings, sunrise: all of these are useful. Also, feathers. To keep it humming, sometimes you have to stand on an incline, where everything looks possible; on the line you drew yourself." Barbara Kingsolver shares more in this beautiful excerpt from her 2008 Commencement speech at Duke University, "How to Be Hopeful." { read more }

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For more inspiration read this excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr's Nobel Prize acceptance speech: "We Shall Overcome." { more }


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