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Kaitlin Ruiz

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an old professor, a survivor of his country's civil war, often reminded me that all activism relies upon hope, sister to faith--the evidence of things unseen. our ability to imagine and enact better futures, even when we don't have visuals, is how we endure.

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Kaitlin Ruiz's avatar Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social
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Merwin, as ever

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Jeremy Doan 's avatar Jeremy Doan @jeremymdoan.bsky.social
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Have you read Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark?

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Emily Dickinson described Hope as 'the thing with feathers,' but I have found Hope to be more like the diamond that you yourself create by hanging in there in the face of insurmountable pressures. It's the immovable object and the unstoppable force; it's the drive to live written into our coding.

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