Filled with Hope

“Give the present the gift of your full attention.”― Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

“Start making yourself at home in your life as it is.”― Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

Anchored in this day, pay attention.
Make yourself at home with what is as it is.
Keep moving, unfolding, unfurling.
Doing the work of hope, the dance of joy, the song of awe and wonder.
Breaking ground to bloom.
An earnest smile.
The power of one hopeful person.
A choir even better.

“Today I think of myself as a ‘recovering pessimist.’ I know that optimism is not at odds with wisdom. It’s quite the opposite. I think of cynicism as cool but lazy, while hope is desperately uncool—it has sweaty palms and an earnest smile on its face. What I know to be true is that one hopeful person will accomplish more than a hundred cynics. Why? Because the hopeful person will try.”― Maggie Smith