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Category: on Hope

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on Hope/on Praxis/the Cycle of the Seasons/the Work

the third day

Posted on 24 December 2022

Hope and the willingness to let the day roll over you is a discipline, which means that sometimes it is VERY HARD and you have to practice interrupting your own...

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on Hope/on Praxis/the Cycle of the Seasons/the Work

the second day

Posted on 23 December 2022

Darkness is no friend to the light. And the more we build our fire, the bigger and brighter it is.

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on Hope/on Praxis/the Cycle of the Seasons/the Work

the first day

Posted on 22 December 2022

Today’s failures were the small mistakes, the ones we say or act without forethought. Today’s anxiety kept us from perfection, but it always does that.

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on Hope/on Praxis/the Cycle of the Seasons/the Work

twelve days

Posted on 21 December 2022

We are in a time of darkness but also a time when the promise of the light returning is deeply meaningful.

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on Hope/on Praxis/the Cycle of the Seasons/the Work

reaching toward the light

Posted on 17 December 2022

Trauma causes us to create new ways to behave, to keep ourselves safe, to keep the dark away.

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on Deathwork & Griefwork/on Generational Trauma/on Harm & Reciprocity/on Hope/on Queerness

I dream of disappointing my mother

Posted on 11 December 2022

I had a bad dream which was trying to be a good dream, but it was a bad dream because none of it is true.

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CURRENTLY READING:

I am on StoryGraph tracking my reading and the reading challenges I've joined. You can go to my StoryGraph profile if you want to see what kind of reading I'm doing right now.

CURRENTLY WATCHING:

I am using MyDramaList now! Here's my MDL profile and my MDL watchlists. I recommend looking at my 2025 watchlist to see what I've watched already and what's on my massive personal wishlist for the year.

It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.

-- excerpt from The Dispossessed: an Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. LeGuin

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