wonderful. life happens, no matter how much we humans stuff up. love your message that hope is beyond the individual and instead resides in the magic of life around us. In my work in growing food, i know that plants want to live, despite what we do to them, and sometimes we need to take a step back from intervening and just watch life happen. I will now start acknowledging the hope that resides there.
"Life doesn’t hope; it is hope, and strives no matter what." I've seen this when I was caring for the dying. The ability for the human body to keep going beyond all odds, long after everyone has said their hopeless goodbyes, the body itself seems quite hopeful that some miracle healer is right around the corner, and keeps breathing and beating.
This is so lovely. Hope resides within each of us, depending on what we do. Do we show up and do something? Or do we give up and do nothing. The lessons of nature, life, and movement are all around us. Thank you for pointing out the pathways and illustrations of hope embedded in Creation all around us.
Thank you for this exploration, Rob. Beautifully written. I'm reminded of a fine piece by Derrick Jensen in Orion many years ago called Against Hope, which he felt was an unforgivable buffer against action. I had my students wrestle with it sometimes, and the wrestling was good to see.
Thanks, Jen. Rob
Beautiful!
I had to turn away from the headlines this morning, unable to find cover, ‘hope’ in it all.
To find your piece was like a rescue. Surely welcome reminder.
‘Gin-clear pools rimmed in ice..”
“Like a candle brightened by darkness..’
-such imagery.
Thank you
Thanks, Kai.
wonderful. life happens, no matter how much we humans stuff up. love your message that hope is beyond the individual and instead resides in the magic of life around us. In my work in growing food, i know that plants want to live, despite what we do to them, and sometimes we need to take a step back from intervening and just watch life happen. I will now start acknowledging the hope that resides there.
Beautifully put, Cushla. Thanks.
"Life doesn’t hope; it is hope, and strives no matter what." I've seen this when I was caring for the dying. The ability for the human body to keep going beyond all odds, long after everyone has said their hopeless goodbyes, the body itself seems quite hopeful that some miracle healer is right around the corner, and keeps breathing and beating.
Thanks for doing that work, Didi. I'm sure you learned a lot. Rob
This is so lovely. Hope resides within each of us, depending on what we do. Do we show up and do something? Or do we give up and do nothing. The lessons of nature, life, and movement are all around us. Thank you for pointing out the pathways and illustrations of hope embedded in Creation all around us.
Thanks, Grace!
Rob, beautiful work, again.
Thanks, Jeff.
Brilliant, as always. Thank you!
Thanks, Hart. Good to hear from you.
Thank you for this exploration, Rob. Beautifully written. I'm reminded of a fine piece by Derrick Jensen in Orion many years ago called Against Hope, which he felt was an unforgivable buffer against action. I had my students wrestle with it sometimes, and the wrestling was good to see.