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Hope in the Dark

Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
May 28, 2017
Wonderfully uplifting yet clear-eyed and down-to-earth book for people who need a little inspiration to keep going in the face of what often seems to be insurmountable odds. My favorite quote from the intro: "It’s important to say what hope is not: it is not the belief that everything was, is, or will be fine. The evidence is all around us of tremendous suffering and tremendous destruction. The hope I’m interested in is about broad perspectives with specific possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we act. It’s also not a sunny everything-is-getting-better narrative, though it may be a counter to the everything-is-getting-worse narrative. You could call it an account of complexities and uncertainties, with openings."