Real-life examples of people who embody hope through their thoughts, words, and deeds can bring hope to nearly everyone. Whose example makes you feel hopeful that you can make it through any challenge? Whose life story makes you feel hopeful that you can achieve what you want to bring to the world? One place to start could be with the people who have offered us hope during our national season of sheltering-in-place – people like Stacey Abrams, whose dedication to voters’ rights in Georgia led to two historic elections in that state, giving people around the country newfound hope; or like Amanda Gorman, whose poise and presence as the youngest poet ever to read at a US presidential inauguration gave us hope for the voices of the future. (And young Ms. Gorman wants to run for president in 2036!) Start a collection on your bookshelf of works by and about such “hope heroes.”
— Maggie Oman Shannon in Have Hope