Hope

“The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible.”
— Audre Lorde

By honouring the wisdom of each of our inner seasons, and especially by embracing rest and surrender at menstruation we access an immense inner creativity and strength. In this way, our cycles can serve as a touchstone to keep coming back to, or a rooting in that help us to continue branching out.

Alexandra & Sjaine, The Red School, Red thread #

The combined connotations of desire and trust interest me greatly. But I think of hope as something much more than that, and it’s why I believe hope to be essential in difficult times: the practice of hope engages the creative mind. It makes us wonder what we might do to make that desired thing happen, or how we can become in some way aligned with