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A Recognition That Powers Us All Through The Struggle

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A Recognition That Powers Us All Through The Struggle

A short thought to interrupt the week.

Ted Hope
Jan 12, 2023
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It's not easy for anyone, but when you know you are on the right side of art, of history, of community, of business, and of love, when you recognize it is all connected in a continuum with one thing feeding the other, that it is a process that gets better, even when we suffer the setbacks, then we know it is we who build the cracks where the light gets in. There is hope. There are steps forward, no matter how small or personal. Slowly it becomes more complete. Slowly we can handle the complexity, sometimes ever render it into beauty. This shouldn’t be easy. Of course at times it breaks us, but we can also pick ourselves back up again, and are now stronger for it. It is profound and generous whenever anyone is there for us. We know this is true for all of us, and it is all of our strength that grows. It will never be one that changes anything; it will be many, and we will all need that strength and all that resilience, and even then it will never be enough, but we will keep getting closer and closer and really is it worth it.

Special thanks to Leonard Cohen, Vanessa Hope, Audrey Tang, and Thuc Doan Nguyen

This post is a violation of my new two posts per week to your inbox policy. I am making an exception because it is so short and I know a few of you really needed to read (or hear) this. Sometimes desperate situations require one to break arbitrary rules. I hope you don’t mind! My apologies!!

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JamesLantz
Jan 12·edited Jan 12Liked by Ted Hope

When it sometimes breaks us or when we suffer, I offer this poem by Wm Butler Yeats:

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Now all the truth is out,

Be secret and take defeat

From any brazen throat,

For how can you compete,

Being honor bred, with one

Who were it proved he lies

Were neither shamed in his own

Nor in his neighbors' eyes;

Bred to a harder thing

Than Triumph, turn away

And like a laughing string

Whereon mad fingers play

Amid a place of stone,

Be secret and exult,

Because of all things known

That is most difficult.

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Todd Smith
Jan 12Liked by Ted Hope

That's why I like Ted.

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