I am a cynic. There is no way around it.
I'm also a worry-er. It's in my DNA.
But it is balanced out by parts of me that are ridiculously hopeful. Optimistic.
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I only have one quote that I look at regularly. I found it in a magazine when I was travelling for work. I was in a hotel room in Birmingham, AL. I wrote it on a scrap of paper that I've had taped to my computer for a year. I left it that way because it meant so much and I somehow didn't want to mess with it.
I want with my heart to believe these words. I'm not sure I'm there yet...but I have hope. Because THIS is how I want to live. Believing this:
"The texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all
but that good and laughter and justice will prevail."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
