Kaitlin Ruiz: an old professor, a survivor of his country's civil war, often reminded me that all activism relies upon hope, sister to faith--the evidence of things unseen. our ability to imagine and enact better futures, even when we don't have visuals, is how we endure.

I joke a lot about my capacity for despair, but there's enough Catholic discipline in my youth to remember that it is in fact a sin, one that absorbs all the best in you more comprehensively than a tar pit. I left the church ages ago, but I held onto that cable: despair is not a long-term good.

an old professor, a survivor of his country's civil war, often reminded me that all activism relies upon hope, sister to faith--the evidence of things unseen. our ability to imagine and enact better futures, even when we don't have visuals, is how we endure.

Merwin, as ever

Thanks by W. S. Merwin | Poetry Foundationwww.poetryfoundation.org Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you.

Emily Dickinson described Hope as 'the thing with feathers,' but I have found Hope to be more like the diamond that you yourself create by hanging in there in the face of insurmountable pressures. It's the immovable object and the unstoppable force; it's the drive to live written into our coding.

Have you read Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark?

I have a copy floating around somewhere that I keep meaning to read! I really like Solnit.

she compares hope to a moth following the moon, it'll never reach it but still needs it as a guide

oh gosh, that's gorgeous

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