![]() ![]() She is a magnificent woman, and I have loved everything of hers I have read. She has a visceral intelligence, a sharp eye for detail and a wonderful way of conveying a message. Rebecca Solnit is something of an icon for me. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.” It is to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. All that these transformations have in common is that they begin in the imagination, in hope. Sometimes one person inspires a movement, or her words do decades later sometimes a few passionate people change the world sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do sometimes those millions are stirred by the same outrage or the same ideal, and change comes upon us like a change of weather. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. “Cause and effect assume history marches forward, but history is not an army. ![]()
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