Resisting the defeatism of easy despair
“The stories we tell ourselves about our public past shape how we interpret and respond to and show up for the present.
The stories we tell ourselves about our private pasts shape how we come to see our personhood and who we ultimately become.
The thin line between agency and victimhood is drawn in how we tell those stories.”
Rebecca Solnit’s reflections on how to sustain hope in our time or readily available despair.
