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Second Wind

Starting late, or starting over late, and finding out it isn't late. Hope as a daily practice, changing your mind when the evidence turns, and the long stretch where nothing seems to happen before everything does.

Hope Is My Number One Drug

Thoreau said the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. He was right. Nearly six decades in, one thing has outlasted every mistake: hope, the only drug that lends from the future instead of borrowing against it. How it gets lost, how it gets found, and why things get better.

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