Bringing Hope

Today is January 30^th. I began this rendition of Morning Peeps on the first of the month, and I’ve posted every day, so I think I’ve earned the right to say, “I’ve got 30 days.” Those of you familiar with

12-step programs know that 30 days is an accomplishment – an oft time difficult commitment maintained for, well, 30 days.

I jump-started Morning Peeps this year after a pledge I made at a Winter Solstice ceremony – a ceremony about the transition from darkness to light. I promised to use my writing to help bring hope to others. Without hope for oneself, how can there truly be hope for anything else? For social justice, drinkable water in every town and village, peace in the middle east and our own troubled cities – and a host of other changes that are critically important for our world and ourselves.

I am not so grandiose as to think everything I write is brilliantly inspirational. The bar I seek is lower. Can I make you chuckle because I’ve lost my pants or my dog is in diapers? Will my experience resonate so you don’t feel quite so alone (even if I’m not always optimistic myself)? Does the view from my window remind you there truly is beauty in the world?

I hope so.

Often we set out to make a difference in the lives of others only to discover we have made a difference in our own.  -Ellie Braun-Haley

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.  -Norman B. Rice

Hopefully yours,