"Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.
Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal.
To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable."
Rebecca Solnit
She speaks of hope as an aggression, a kill or be killed, but what if the hope she writes of is one of compassion and love, even for the opposing aggressor. Maybe she would say that in order to get to my ridiculous notion, we have to be aggressive.
Maybe, just maybe,
I don't know because all I have is this very limited experience,
I need to hope less.
Today I am grateful for going home early, an afternoon snooze, protein, water with lemon, a phone call, a present inhabitable.
The music is this.
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