To be hopeful

RCC_2293, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To be hopeful,

to embrace one possibility after another – that is surely the basic instinct.

Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson

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Labour Pains

There is only one truth.
I shall give birth to a child,
truth driving outward from my inwardness.
Neither good nor bad; no sham about it.

Yosako Akiko, Labour Pains