A Dose of Hope

These past few weeks have been harrowing for anyone paying attention to the news cycle and the state of our world. With Climate Collapse pushing us closer to extinction on a daily basis, our “choose your own reality,” perspective as a collective culture, and the heinous evidence of world leaders sexually assaulting and grooming an entire generation of women and girls within a cult-like sex trafficking ring of billionaires, everything seems pretty grim.

And it is.

Yet, it is also an awakening.

An exposure of the cancer that we ignored for centuries; its malignancy feeding off of our apathy and consumerism until the whole system kills itself—eats itself whole.

We are bearing witness to the breaking of an ideology of power and dominance, and it is horrifyingly painful. And also, a relief for those of us who have been peeling back the layers of why it is so awful for some of us and easy for others(read: White Men, derogatory).

And we can see Hope blooming everywhere. From the streets of Minneapolis where women and queer folx created underground mutual aid distribution systems to keep their Black and Brown neighbors safe, to the world stage where European leaders are being dethroned, imprisoned, investigated, and held accountable for their involvement with Epstein.

But Hope is also in the small moments, too. The exchange of booklists with a stranger, the conversations about musical theatre with my so , the simple promise of an early morning walk with my very social Poodle puppy…it’s all around us. Gigantic and infinitesimal.

In the cacophony of chaos there are real, sturdy, true things that not only exist, but are building a powerful movement and shift in culture.

This mass deconstruction is not painless. It is not without harm. It is also not without Hope.

What was your dose of Hope, today?