Hope

Hope, a complex emotional state, contrasts with despair, influenced by cognitive processes and neurotransmitters. While we experience emotional highs and lows, our meta cognition allows us to foresee a better future despite challenges. By navigating through life’s storms with reason and optimism, we can steer towards promising destinations and maintain hope throughout our journey. … More Hope

Hope

Today is Hope. Last year, I read Steven Pinker’s wonderful “The Better Angels of Our Nature”. That phrase was the closing of Lincoln’s first inaugural address. Ironic in how the demons of our natures opposed his plea and launched that miserable war of brother against brother, which in some ways we are still seeing waged … More Hope