Finding hope amid despair

Finding a path through despair, to hope... a great writer's gift to accomplish that journey:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/12/30/rebecca-solnit-hope-in-the-dark/

From the article by Maria Popova:  "We lose hope, Solnit suggests, because we lose perspective — we lose sight of the “accretion of incremental, imperceptible changes” which constitute progress and which render our era dramatically different from the past, a contrast obscured by the undramatic nature of gradual transformation punctuated by occasional tumult."