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PSYCHE | R Kalvar
In its absence, we often grow listless, even court despair. I thus want to defend hope, underscore what we gain in its grip and lose when it dissolves. But I also want to buoy it, to buoy you. Hope is a dependent phenomenon and, while we cannot hope for one another, we can lift, lower or deflate spirits. Our days are both rough and slippery.