The reason hope prevails at all costs, when
it does, is that

it accompanies the most reason

able sense of how the world should progress,

provided your key ass

ump

tion is that the most import

ant and overriding comp

on

ents

of the uni

verse are harm

ony, peace, integrity

, happi

ness and love

.

But the world most of

ten see

ms to defy the un

iverse of these

-- or perhap

s

everyone's sense of what these things are

con

tra

dicts their family's, neigh

bors', fri

end

s' and lovers'.

Per

haps the dream of one m

an or woma

n trying to see -- or share -- a bigger picture of how these things

work is a lost

cause. But then, there's hope for that too, isn

't there.

.

.

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