These Solstice greetings arrived in my inbox yesterday. They are from a friend that I used to work with at Germantown Friends School. He is a retired science teacher and now a photographer living in New York.
Cape Ann, Massachusetts Photograph by Paul Stetzer
Point Valdes, Argentina Photograph by Paul Stetzer
The solstice is about light, about recognizing the rhythm of the earth as it goes around the sun at its crazy tilt. For some of us the amount of daylight is the greatest now. For others the shortest amount of daylight begins to get longer each day.
Leonard said, “There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” (I’d think that the light is another word for hope)
Ernesto M. Guevara, Md (Che) said that hope is a revolutionary feeling.
“Hope is a discipline. It’s less about 'how you feel,’ and more about the practice of making a decision every day, that you’re still gonna put one foot in front of the other, that you’re still going to get up in the morning… It’s work to be hopeful. It’s not like a fuzzy feeling… you have to actually put in energy, time, and you have to be clear-eyed, and you have to hold fast to having a vision. It’s a hard thing to maintain. But it matters to have it, to believe that it’s possible, to change the world…”
— Mariame Kaba
It feels that hope is more needed now than ever and ever more challenging to feel. Let us help one another to . . . hope.