As the wasteland of the new regime opens out before us, Rebecca Solnit calls in the elders and ancestors to help us resist the false comforts of doomerism:
As Mariam Kaba said, "hope is a discipline."
As Václav Havel said (well before he helped liberate his country from totalitarianism), “Hope is … is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something is worth doing, regardless of how it turns out.”
“Part of our work as people who dare to believe we can save the world is to prepare our wills to withstand some losing, so that we may lose and still set out again, anyhow.” --Julian Aguon
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” --James Baldwin
I needed this shot in the arm.
