Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes—you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others. Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable,

Unfortunately, stoic hope, though sturdy and resilient, is not particularly proactive or strategic — and we need to be both. Enter what Stoknes calls grounded hope. This kind of hope embraces the full paradox of our predicament. It says: “Yes, it’s hopeless, and I’ll give it my all anyway.” This kind of hope is not dependent on outcomes, nor attach

Adjacent possibles also reveal themselves when we look thoughtfully at problems we face.