“I’m feeling much better now that I’ve given up hope.” Zen Comic Nearly everyone touts the value of staying hopeful in troubled times – personal, local and global.

"Paths are made by walking", wrote Franz Kafka. Or as the poet Antonio Machado said, “There is no way. The way is made by going.” For me that

“I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail and blown out on the trail… ‘Come in,’ she said, ‘I'll give ya shelter from the storm.’ “