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Hope isn't a feeling you wait for. It's a small practice — the plant watered, the plan penciled in. You're allowed to hope in pencil.
The back of Hope in pencil — with the code that opens this room
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TEND · XII

Lesson 51 of LII · the TEND course
The idea behind this card — Hope in pencil

Hope isn't a feeling you wait for. It's a small practice — the plant watered, the plan penciled in. You're allowed to hope in pencil.

TEND — The practices — sabbath, service, blessing, hope, vigil

…people sat with this card this month
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The practice

make one pencil mark on the future today: a month with one thing in it — the visit, the garden, the class. Pencil counts. In many old languages, hope started life as a verb.

Where this idea comes from

  • C.R. Snyder — hope theory
  • Hope as verb — Hebrew kavah, Latin sperare, Old English hopian

More in this deck

GROUND · XII  ·  FEEL · XII  ·  REMEMBER · XII

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