If I have hope, it is because I create space to engage it through my daily actions. I am constantly inspired by others who model such marvelous human potential in ways big and small. I see that where people choose to direct their personal, temporal life energy accumulates over their lifetime and makes a difference. The following poem on (grounded) hope comes as an offering from Lu Xun--

“Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the Earth. For actually the Earth had no roads, but when many people pass one way, a road is made.”