Hope Found Me Again

Reflecting on my relationship with hope

Hello, Searchers!

I often hear people saying that hope is in short supply. I get it. Everything we learn from the media and our social media feeds demonstrates that the world is falling apart.

There are some objectively horrible and horrifying things happening.

However, we have two ways of moving through the world. We can be afraid or we can be hopeful. I choose to be hopeful. That doesn’t mean I ignore the awful. It means I choose to believe resistance is possible and that there is a path to a better world. To believe that we are doomed is to give up and to let the villains win.

I also believe that hope is not just something we choose to cultivate, but that hope is actively searching us out.

My newest book, Sci-Fi Haiku: 600 Tiny Science Fiction Stories, is out now! At its core, this is also a book about the hope of a better future. You can buy an ebook version compatible with any ereader device or app directly from the Weirdo Poetry Shop, or you can purchase a physical copy or an ebook from dozens of other retailers.

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52 Haiku Prompt 18

Each week, we get together to write and share haiku based on a prompt, with the goal of having 52 new haiku by the end of the year. Each haiku helps pay attention to the changing seasons as we experience them.

You’re welcome to start at any time. If you missed a week or two, or if this is your first time seeing the prompts, start today!