Looking forward, I see hope.

No matter how chaotic, violent and confusing the present, the Earth still travels with the Universe. Snow still falls in the North – sometimes. Birds come to the feeder.

I am connected to people living under conditions of war, of oppression and of poverty; they resist. As long as they do, I cannot give up.

I see acts of care and kindness. I have the freedom to support others; to contribute to my neighbours, to the human and the more-than-human.

I see hope, like the full moon shining in the winter night; like snow lightening the darkness; crystallizing swiftly like ice fractals.