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Since 1998 I've been sending out these reflections first thing each
week--one or more quotes plus my thoughts about the intersections and
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Quote #1192 - #HopePersists
30 Jun, 2025
HOPE PERSISTS
"Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does can be lost so easily."
Lemony Snicket
THE BEATRICE LETTERS
"Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic."
Laini Taylor
DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE
"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it."
Amanda Gorman
"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing."
Raymond Williams
A terrific acting teacher (Peter Flood,
who flooded my brain and body years ago
with tools and ideas I use as both teacher and practitioner)
said when you do your work as an actor and then
throw yourself into the moment of the scene/play,
all these presents come while you're there,
like presents coming in the mail.
I love that image.
I'm thinking these days that's the best we can do now:
do our work as citizens, as democracy-lovers,
as human beings,
and hope that the presents come in the mail,
even though at the moment they're few and far between
and can be so easily lost.
Right now, hope is a radical act--
not oblivious going-on-as-if-our-country-is-not-collapsing,
but pushing back against the demonic forces,
and creating art that both illuminates and celebrates,
as if it won't always be this way.
Shellen Lubin
June 30, 2025
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