Your Daily Shot of Hope: Meditations for an Age of Despair
By Diane Silver
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Need Hope? If you’ve been thrown into despair by the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, the rise of authoritarianism and hate around the world, or if you’re struggling with hopelessness in your personal life, this book for you. Your Daily Shot of Hope provides a place to rest and recharge. It offers new perspective. Containing ninety-three short meditations written to evoke feelings of hope and love, Your Daily Shot of Hope offers daily vitamin pills for the spirit. Take one a day to strengthen your soul.
Diane Silver
A writer, spiritual seeker, speaker, and political activist, Diane Silver gives presentations about hope and an atheist’s faith to a variety of audiences. She has served as communications director for a candidate for Congress, a press secretary in a gubernatorial campaign, championed equality for LGBTQ people in bright red Kansas, and helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for universities and other nonprofits. Her writings include the books Kansas Storms, The New Civil War, and articles and essays in Ms., The Progressive, and many other venues.
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Your Daily Shot of Hope - Diane Silver
We live in unsettling times. Hate appears to be ascendant. Bullying looks like the quickest path to success these days, at least in politics. And truth? Increasingly truth—the real thing based on facts and evidence—looks like an idea that is past its prime. For many of us, hope has become a fleeting memory. But can any of us survive for long without hope?
If you are among the millions who have been thrown into despair by the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, by the passage of Brexit in Great Britain, and the rise of authoritarianism and hate around the world, this book is for you. If you wonder how you can possibly keep fighting back, this book offers a place to rest, recharge, know that you are not alone, and remember that, yes, you do have the power to create change. If you are struggling with despair in your personal life, this book is also for you because ridiculous, cockeyed hope helps us heal. Hope fuels us. It enables us to go on.
It’s easy to misunderstand hope. After all, isn’t hope supposed to be something for the uninformed and the childish because who else would be silly enough to have hope in this nasty world? But I’m not talking about hope that springs from denial. True hope stands on a bedrock of nitty-gritty reality. Pretending that pain doesn’t exist doesn’t make it disappear. Claiming