Hope is no invisible bird

While Emily Dickinson puts hope into the symbolic form of a bird within us, we live with it as “optimism” and “a belief that things will change.”

How others define hope? Multiple ways. As a noun, people speak of hope as if it is “a feeling of trust,” or “some chance.” As a verb, it’s about 'looking forward to or anticipating” something.

Sometimes hope is the achingly hard work of recognizing the open space and holding it, or of the deliberate choice to believe in possibility, over and over again in spite of the feelings of limits.

The “made-visible” of something that is 'unseen-yet-everywhere-all-the-time.” Reaching for light, whether we see it inside or outside, or even as the edge of the darkness.