Day 2
Spring seems to have finally arrived here in the Pacific Northwest, and the trail is calling.
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| Fishnets being prepped for the season |
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| Flicker in net yard |
Hope: how do we do it?
This is a great, juicy topic
My masters thesis in the bad old days, long, long ago was actually on hope. My thesis advisor and head of the Occupational Therapy Dept. at USC was a crusty old Irish dame named Mary Reilly. She made it clear that what I was to focus on was ‘lowly old hope’ – the kind that gets you from one day to the next, and not on ‘self actualization’ or the like, one of those buzzwords for the latest self-help or self improvement fad that came out of the 70’s. My task was to suss out what keeps people going in spite of the worst possible circumstances like a devastating stroke or spinal cord injury that leaves you paralyzed. Continue reading “Hope: how do we do it?”