HOPE

“Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, an orientation of the spirit.” And I have faith; maybe more than hope, I have faith. I think of my great-grandmother, Vilate Lee Romney, who came from good Mormon stock. She always said to us that faith without works is dead, so I think if we have hope, we must work to further that hope. Maybe that is the most important thing of all, to have our faith rooted in action…I really do believe if there is hope in the world, then it is to be found within our own communities with our own neighbors, and within our own homes and families. Hope radiates outward from the center of our concerns. Hope dares us to stare at the miraculous in the eye and have the courage not to look away.
I refuse to walk away.”
--Terry Tempest Williams

The Progressive Interview by David Kupfer’
“The Progressive”, February 2005, v.69 n.1, p.39