hope

hope is seeing farther than you believe is possible.

hope is seeing today in light of the tomorrow that must come so that today can be recollected and recapitulated.

hope is refusing to submit to the present disaster.

hope is embodying the possible alternative in impossible times and places.

hope is fragile and threatened on all sides.

hope is activity in the temptation to passivity.

hope is passivity in the temptation to activity.

hope is trying to make itself unnecessary.