“The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.”
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
