Meditations in an Emergency

“Hope does not mean saying this is not bad, and it does not mean saying that we can defeat it. It just means saying we will keep showing up. That we will not give up... we do not know how it will unfold, and neither do those we oppose.”

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© Trent Davis Bailey

​​Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 25 books, including Orwell’s Roses, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A longtime climate and human rights activist, she serves on the boards of Oil Change International and Third Act.
​Her newsletter of essays and analyses can be found at meditationsinanemergency.com.