Hope as a Practice

To truly witness the world, you have to root yourself deeply in the discipline of hope. It is not an easy practice. 

What we are witnessing in our communities and the world is a heavy and ongoing load. Especially when also being directly impacted. But rooting in hope can help us honor our full spectrum of emotions, while moving us to action. History has been made by hope's existence, over and over again. When it's stated to be impossible, when the majority upholding harmful systems cannot fathom another way, the discipline of hope is what keeps the collective going. And that changes everything, for everyone.

As Mariame Kaba shared, "Hope doesn't preclude feeling sadness or frustration or anger or any other emotion that makes total sense. Hope isn't an emotion, you know? Hope is not optimism. Hope is a discipline...we have to practice it every single day."