Hope vs. Despair

Laura DeMaisBerg
3 min readOct 29, 2020

Yesterday morning I got up and did a morning write. What came to me in those early hours, less than a week before the presidential election, was how I long to keep hope alive. I meditate often these days. At the end of my stillness, I ask myself, “what is it you long for today?” Almost always, the answer is hope. I want to keep that energy alive in my body because the opposite, despair, is on the other side, pulling me steadily into that dark, heavy cave.

Laura DeMaisBerg

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