podcast friday

 It's three years into the new year and already the sadness has set in, so please check out Conspirituality's short interview with Rebecca Solnit. Solnit has made a career out of reminding us that if the situation was hopeless, their propaganda would be unnecessary. The opposite of despair isn't hope, it's agency. Though of course, Solnit talks a lot about hope too, not as a solution but as a practice.

I really appreciated this talk. I listened to it, and last night, I went out with my neighbourhood group and put up Palestine posters all over the street. Which I was going to do anyway, but it's a reminder to get up and do a thing. Just do it. Don't wait for someone else to start. That thing will lead to doing other things.