The Prompt
Pulitzer Prize winning author Barbara Kingsolver finishes the thought, “And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
Hope is the active thing that built what we are doing right here. Under its roof, we invite human artists to reflect and make things with life-giving creativity. Hope is a place to ponder ideas of purpose, to examine our lives, and to imagine how our place in the world might even change the world.
It helps us see what we’re meant to see and resist the distortions and distractions that don’t belong inside our hope.
There is a be still quality to figuring out one’s hope. Living right in it is an exercise of craft and character. As we nurture, suffer and celebrate in hope, we come to find that we need it as much as it needs us to be truly alive.
As artists, how can we, at the very least figure out what we hope, and at most, live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof, and create?