to brave again the beginning
Some things that are solid turn out to be made of straw.
Sometimes a house of cards proves strong enough to resist a siege.
Sometimes naivete is precisely what we need in order to better confront the wiles of reality.
Sometimes a fool's hope is the best, if not the only, kind of hope there is.
“The most punk thing you can be nowadays,” Bartholomew Joyce says, “is an optimist”.
Maybe that's the way it’s always been.
Hope has always been flimsy. That's how it stays supple enough to rise through the cracks of the concrete.
It’s what gives us the boldness to keep going, to begin again when necessary, and to brave again the beginning.
P.S. - all the collages in this post are available for purchase here.
P.P.S. ICAD - Day 251-254
Love this point you make Duane: "Hope has always been flimsy. That's how it stays supple enough to rise through the cracks of the concrete." It's as though a thinnest sliver of hope is enough of a wedge to divide and split pessimism.
I love all of these the last one at the bottom is my favorite. Do you sell these?