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If Hope is the Thing with Feathers

  • Jan 6, 2025
  • 1 min read

If hope is the thing with feathers, then hope is also the thing with a beak. The thing with

claws.


Hope is the thing with hooves, too. Hope is the thing with scales, with quills, with

tortoiseshell. With hair and nails and fur.


All these are made from keratin, a protein. Hope is a thing produced by the skin of 

animals.


My cat’s whiskers: hope.


May we also go hope-clad through this world. Let’s keep ourselves warm, let’s protect

each other.

Nicole Walker


ERICA SOON OLSEN is the author of Recapture and Other Stories. She lives in Vernal, Utah.





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Apr 19

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Mary Sojourner
Jan 25, 2025

One of the wisest women I've ever known said this : "Hope is a con. While people are hoping, they are not acting. Hope is the favorite escape for privileged people. Activists don't hope. They act." Nice people hoping for some altered future are part of why we are here now - in these dangerous times.

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Jan 10, 2025

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