“To live holding both the terrifying and unjust in mind while at the same time finding strength to do the drone work of living is a juggling act we perform with various degrees of success at different times of our lives.” Love this ❤️
I am a big believer in hope as a source of daily fuel as well as curiosity too. I’ve also reached a point in my life where with an eternal heart for social justice, I can and must hope to use my position of privilege for making a small difference in this massive f***ed up world. Thank you as always for your delicious love letters x
Curiosity and hope are very much linked, it seems to me. And I think it ties in with Rebecca Solnit's idea that both pessimism nor optimism assume knowledge about the future, whereas hope admits it cannot know the future. To be curious is to be open to how things will unfold. Thank you, Penny, for being a delicious reader!
“To live holding both the terrifying and unjust in mind while at the same time finding strength to do the drone work of living is a juggling act we perform with various degrees of success at different times of our lives.” Love this ❤️
As do I ♥️
Also, as it so happens, I can came across this poem just today. It feels quite fitting:
Hope Is Not a Bird, Emily, It’s a Sewer Rat
by Caitlin Seida
Hope is not the thing with feathers
That comes home to roost
When you need it most.
Hope is an ugly thing
With teeth and claws and
Patchy fur that’s seen some shit.
It’s what thrives in the discards
And survives in the ugliest parts of our world,
Able to find a way to go on
When nothing else can even find a way in.
It’s the gritty, nasty little carrier of such
diseases as
optimism, persistence,
Perseverance and joy,
Transmissible as it drags its tail across
your path
and
bites you in the ass.
Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird,
Emily.
It’s a lowly little sewer rat
That snorts pesticides like they were
Lines of coke and still
Shows up on time to work the next day
Looking no worse for wear.
That is marvellous! Hahaha. Hope is a lowly little sewer rat. Brilliant!
I am a big believer in hope as a source of daily fuel as well as curiosity too. I’ve also reached a point in my life where with an eternal heart for social justice, I can and must hope to use my position of privilege for making a small difference in this massive f***ed up world. Thank you as always for your delicious love letters x
Curiosity and hope are very much linked, it seems to me. And I think it ties in with Rebecca Solnit's idea that both pessimism nor optimism assume knowledge about the future, whereas hope admits it cannot know the future. To be curious is to be open to how things will unfold. Thank you, Penny, for being a delicious reader!
I absolutely love this, and will return to it many times. Thank you!