{"id":10777,"date":"2013-07-10T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/?p=10777"},"modified":"2013-07-10T09:13:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:13:29","slug":"on-hope-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2013\/07\/10\/on-hope-history\/","title":{"rendered":"on hope &#038; history&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Rebecca Solnit&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1560258284\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1560258284&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=pilgrimgirl-20\">Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zgmfawovpoavfuzhuwzq\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=pilgrimgirl-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1560258284\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, on hope and change and activism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Causes and effects assume history marches forward. but history is not an army.\u00a0 It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension.\u00a0 Sometimes one person inspires a movement, or her words do decades later; sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do&#8230;All of that these transformations have in common is that they begin in the imagination, in hope.\u00a0 To hope is to gamble.\u00a0 It&#8217;s to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety.\u00a0 To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As someone who studies those slow eroding drips of history, I love how Solnit affirms the notion that individuals can create large-scale change. 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