Today's hopeful thing:
- a reminder that authoritarians, even ones supported by powerful backers, can be defeated. It takes time and effort and working together but evil winning isn't a done deal.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- K1 and (and this is the new and hopeful part) K2 had a lot of fun hiking today and want to do it again.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- seeing that @Fuchskind's "Kekse statt Nazis" ("Cookies instead of Nazis") was at protests in four different cities. Maybe there were even more!
If the only thing these protests do is bring us together, it's still a lot.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- reading a children's book on racism, which says "if we never see People of Color do certain things, we may think they're not able to do them," and has a kid saying "don't only white people fly to the moon?" as an example.
It feels hopeful because FUCK YES as of today […]
Today's hopeful thing:
- inspiration. It's lovely to see people getting inspired to write, to process, to build. It's also lovely to *be* inspired, and that possibility will always be there.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- the world hasn't ended yet. There's that.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- fresh light green leaves backlit by sunlight. Glorious, glowing new life. The wonder of temperate climate spring.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- my brother has achieved a thing he'd wanted for more than ten years, a thing he'd already thought was impossible for him to do. Sometimes little miracles happen.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- crafting with five kids and without utter chaos and destruction. No one cried, things were accomplished, clean-up was fast. This is getting a lot easier!
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Today's hopeful thing:
- people who don't close their eyes to pain, injustice, and sadness, who witness it and take steps to lessen it.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- liftoff.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- wildlife conservation efforts, in particular efforts to connect habitats and secure migration routes, along place and leading to, e.g., growing lynx populations.
We could just not do that, and there are indeed people opposed to it. But we do it anyway, because those […]
Today's hopeful thing:
- brave people being visible.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- a random group of kids playing football, all indulging the two-year-old standing in the way, taking off with the ball, and kicking it very slowly.
Just a friendly scene.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- a better world is possible; sometimes, we can see glimpses of it.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- people being annoyed with authors' opinions and coping by seeking out works by PoC and other marginalized folks.
That's how it should be. Say inane things, boost the sales of marginalized people as a side effect.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- solidarity. People standing with others very different from them; people leveraging their privilege.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- letting go of a conversation no good can come from. I might yet learn, eh.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- there was daylight both when I left the house in the morning AND when I left work in the evening. This hasn't been the case for months!
(Unfortunately, it won't be true anymore next week because we switch to daylight savings time 😑)
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Today's hopeful thing:
- kids gradually becoming more independent and self-reliant.
(It makes for less stressful parenting, but it's also what one does parenting *for*!)
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Today's hopeful thing:
- autistic people's needs and preferences being respected and supported, both online and IRL. It doesn't always happen, but that we have language to talk about them now instead of just being dismissed *is* hopeful.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- being able to vote? I don't know. Voting is neat but too many people don't appreciate it, including some of the candidates you can vote for. Still hopeful? I guess.
(Sorry, that's all I have in me today.)
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Today's hopeful thing:
- volunteer work and all the people doing it, in whatever way.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- there will be more light than darkness tomorrow. Happy equinox!
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Today's hopeful thing: peace is possible, even if the conflicts don't leave you unharmed. A very good reminder is in the quotes post and thread!
"A tremendous amount of forgiveness and forbearance was needed on both sides to even sit […]
Today's hopeful thing:
- a bright rainbow over the fields 🌈
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Today's hopeful thing:
- the stars are there, and the lighthouses. Even if we get lost, we can find our way again.
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Today's hopeful thing:
- people go out to protest in the grey drizzle, and the local frogs go out to reproduce in their favorite ponds.
(Checked on both today, everything's in order.)
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Today's hopeful thing:
- a day that started badly* still turned good in the afternoon**
*very little sleep, changes of plans, cancelled train, annoying work
**fun with kids, nice bike ride, helped an acquaintance, vegan burgers
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Today's hopeful thing:
- our street got a lower speed limit! After two years of protesting and petitioning our local council, we did it! Now it will be a little quieter and less dangerous.
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