Why giving up hope is not an option

“We are carried along by the heroines and heroes who came before and opened the doors of possibility and imagination.”  The quote is by Rebecca Solnit in her essay “Protest and persist: why giving up hope is not an option” in The Guardian, 3/13/2017.  Although I have a dramatic chapter to finish writing, I took time to read Solnit’s essay:   I highly recommend it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/13/protest-persist-hope-trump-activism-anti-nuclear-movement