Our days are both rough and slippery. Hope brings traction | Psyche Ideas
What is hope? Hope is the act of wanting something to happen or to be true. Hope means that we are not giving up on our country or ourselves.
Alice Wong • Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People
If people find themselves living in a world in which some hopes are realized and some joys are incandescent and some boundaries between individuals and groups are lowered, even for an hour or a day or several months, that matters. Memory of joy and liberation can become a navigational tool, an identity, a gift.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Unfortunately, stoic hope, though sturdy and resilient, is not particularly proactive or strategic — and we need to be both. Enter what Stoknes calls grounded hope. This kind of hope embraces the full paradox of our predicament. It says: “Yes, it’s hopeless, and I’ll give it my all anyway.” This kind of hope is not dependent on outcomes, nor attach
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Grounded hope channels the pivotal insight of Vaclav Havel: “Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”5 Grounded hope offers us no guarantee that we’ll ever walk on out of the darkness,
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