Hope is the belief that no matter how dire things look or how long rescue or healing takes, modern science in tandem with people’s goodness and caring will boggle our minds, in the best way. Hope is a sometimes cranky optimism, trust, and confidence that those I love will be OK-that they will come through, whatever life holds in store. Yet I have boundless hope, most of the time. You would almost have to be nuts to be filled with hope in a world so rife with hunger, hatred, climate change, pollution, and pestilence, let alone the self-destructive or severely annoying behavior of certain people, both famous and just down the hall, none of whom we will name by name. With Earth beset by conflict, climate change, pollution, and other ills, the best-selling author asks: What better time to be hopeful? ‘Show Up With Hope’: Anne Lamott’s Plan for Facing Adversity Here is the piece I wrote on Hope for the great National Geographic in 2018: maybe it will bring you some today:
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