Project 2: Open

Optimism does not always pay off, as it did not in this election. Sometimes being an optimist about the world prevents us from realizing that the worst outcome is still a possibility, and that in order to stop it from happening we need to act. Sometimes keeping your heart closed is the answer. "Hope" is powerless without "action".

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

Emily Dickinson