Friday, September 25, 2026

Make your own

What do we do with hope?
I have not figured that out for myself.
There was a quote I wrote down
from a climate activist, Mary Annaïse Heglar.
She says, “I think hope is really precious,
and the most precious thing about it is that you have to earn it.
Usually, when people are asking me what gives me hope,
what they really mean is ‘give me hope,’
and I can’t do that for you.
You have to go out and make your own hope.” 

        Alena Smith, Vulture, 2021