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Hope is an emotional temper that emboldens the heart to be active...It is a feat of the imagination, both courageous and ingenious, a vitality that inspires us to take innovative action to defend the world...
We achieve this vitality of spirit by rejecting the relentless promotion of despair and opening our eyes to the beauty of things...We try to view the world not as it is packaged, presented and sold to us but as we imagine it could be.
I've honestly felt very little hope lately, mostly because of *gestures around* daniel.industries/2025/01/04/2024-in-review/#the-united-states-of-collective-dissonance
This morning has been no exception, so I was happy for Fr. Cave deliver this to my inbox first thing.
Hope is one of my "core values" and it's useful to revisit these sometimes. I'm reminded of the subheadings under hope: Gratitude, Generosity, Assuming the Best, Creativity. These are the actions I can take to rekindle hope. github.com/dealingwith/values/blob/main/values.md#hope-and-abundance
Sometimes it is important to remember that money is made up and success in capitalism is usually privilege, sometimes luck, rarely anything else, and if you believe in any kind of higher power or a collective spiritual force in the universe or just like historical wisdom literature most of their POVs on money is its primary potential is as something bad for you and your soul.
Watched this the other night and thoroughly enjoyed it.
This podcast suddenly gets dark (but not wrong) right around 29m: "then you can afford to burn out a bunch of software engineers and leave them
staggering around their hometown, gazing bleary eyed into the morning light and wondering where their life went wrong."
I re-read this piece by @doriantaylor at least once a year, and it's more valuable on each re-read
