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A new blog to contain answers to prompts |
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one. Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.  |
| Prompt: "Hope springs eternal." Write about this in your Blog entry today. --------- "Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest." Alexander Pope’s poem An Essay on Man (1734) How could I forget this quote! I knew Princess Megan Rose  's prompt was tied to something very familiar but couldn't put my finger on it right away. Now, I know after searching it. Alexander Pope was probably my tenth grade English teacher, (RIP) Mrs. Mc Achron's favorite poet and she told us never to forget "hope." That was more than six decades ago.But I did forget "hope" at times, as life does it to people, and it did to me, too. Yet, as I have found over and over again, things can and do improve, maybe not exactly to my liking, but in the least, they become tolerable. Even in the face of adversity, disappointment, or failure, hope finds a way to emerge...quietly, persistently, and sometimes irrationally. It was hope what motivated me to try again and again after failing, to love again after losing, or to believe in peace in times of conflict, as no matter how difficult life became, I had to continue to hope for better days. Hope always knows when to emerge when to motivate me to get up and brush off the dust and gloom, and continue to change, to heal, and to keep on going. This quote then, is not only a poet's observation but a powerful, quiet truth about our human condition. I hope I never lose hope! |
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