The first Notes from Saving the World collaborative scrapbook - offering a new lens on global challenges from trauma survivors, activists, writers and poets.
This is such a complex and beautiful subject, expressed in so many amazing ways here. Lovely to see this project come to life. ‘Agile hope’ resonates so much. 🩶
Thank you so much Jo. It has honestly been so great to dive into hope and hear how others have shaped it in their lives outside of Instagram quotes and false positivity - it feels more possible to me now to create hope for myself and the world we live in.
I think that’s what I love about it most. It’s not the diminishing sort of hope that overlooks challenging circumstances with pink and glitter, but the grit of finding hope, existing alongside those challenges.
Thank you Juliet for contributing your words and ideas to this piece. It was truly a helpful process to focus on hope for a while. I am going to do more of that.
This is such a great collaborative research project into something we so badly need to re-configure. I loved being prompted to write and therefore think my way into where I sit with hope now. Thank you Catriona for the openness, depth and beauty you have brought to this, and for creating community in the process.
Thank you so much for contributing your words and ideas to this piece Sally. I loved ready your piece and bringing together these different angles on, like you a say, a topic that needs more exploration and reframing.
Love coming across this randomly. I'm igoing through Krista Tippett's Hope Portal weekly podcast and journaling with a group of about 20 women. Our weekly conversations are so rich and uplifting!
I've been a student of hope for a while, so I'm excited to dig into these resources. My Substack was originally called "Building Hope," as a companion to a podcast I produced to feature some of our architecture grad students' environmentally visionary projects.
This is such a complex and beautiful subject, expressed in so many amazing ways here. Lovely to see this project come to life. ‘Agile hope’ resonates so much. 🩶
Thank you so much Jo. It has honestly been so great to dive into hope and hear how others have shaped it in their lives outside of Instagram quotes and false positivity - it feels more possible to me now to create hope for myself and the world we live in.
I think that’s what I love about it most. It’s not the diminishing sort of hope that overlooks challenging circumstances with pink and glitter, but the grit of finding hope, existing alongside those challenges.
Thank you so much Jo. I am glad you appreciated that because it is that sort of pink and glitter that kept me from exploring this topic in the past.
"the grit of hope"... that really resonates!
Thank you for putting this scrapbook together Catriona and including my poem. I want to savour this beautiful publication.
Thank you Juliet for contributing your words and ideas to this piece. It was truly a helpful process to focus on hope for a while. I am going to do more of that.
I love your poem Juliet 💕
Thank you Clare. I’m looking forward to downloading the pdf so I can sit with all this beautiful collation.
This is such a great collaborative research project into something we so badly need to re-configure. I loved being prompted to write and therefore think my way into where I sit with hope now. Thank you Catriona for the openness, depth and beauty you have brought to this, and for creating community in the process.
Thank you so much for contributing your words and ideas to this piece Sally. I loved ready your piece and bringing together these different angles on, like you a say, a topic that needs more exploration and reframing.
I'm so happy to discover your work through this project, Sally 💕
An entirely. Mutual happiness Clare, thank you for your powerful piece 💚
Thank you for reading it 💕
I'm honoured to be featured in this beautiful, collaborative scrapbook Catriona. This resource will be a balm to so many people 💕
Hope rebranded, real,
not the fluffy flimsy kind.
Wide-eyed brazen hope.
...
Fierce hope meets horrors,
risks failing, being mocked, crushed, squashed.
Resists doomsaying.
fabulous x
Love coming across this randomly. I'm igoing through Krista Tippett's Hope Portal weekly podcast and journaling with a group of about 20 women. Our weekly conversations are so rich and uplifting!
I've been a student of hope for a while, so I'm excited to dig into these resources. My Substack was originally called "Building Hope," as a companion to a podcast I produced to feature some of our architecture grad students' environmentally visionary projects.
From that early time, one of my posts on hope: https://open.substack.com/pub/juliegabrielli/p/hope-is-how-we-give-ourselves-to?r=4cg2x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
And this one: https://open.substack.com/pub/juliegabrielli/p/creating-space-for-both-despair-and?r=4cg2x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false