To hope is to give yourself to the future — and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Rebecca Solnit

I’m currently re-reading Offline Matters which, given the non-stop AI nonsense felt like something that would feel informative and relevant in new ways as tech has further altered the landscape since 2022 when it was released. It definitely continues to hit — and this quote from American author Rebecca Solnit feels directly meaningful to me in terms of the work emanating from my personal practice than it did before¹.