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Hope

Planted Jun 16, 2023·Last tended Jul 10, 2025

We generally think of hope as a good thing, as something we want to maintain in hard times. But is it ideal? What is it? How do we get it/keep it/have it?

We cannot help but hope

Don’t hope

T.S. Elliot, from “East Coker”

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope

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