What it means to create

Hope matters

I recently was at a poetry reading where Lee Maracle read from the book she co authored with Columpa Bobb andTania Carter.

Her poem Hope Matters really moved me and I wanted to share it here with you.

Hope lives inside the artist: instrument, brush,

voice, pen, sculpture, body. Hope breathes life

inside those shadowy crevices where doubt

waits to feast on our weakened and dimmed

inner light. Hope gives us strength to trudge

through the muck and the mire to find

solid ground. Hope is the home of curiosity,

imagination, intelligence, and compassion.

Artists are an empathic link between hope and

the outside world. Hope frees, hope relieves: hope

moves us. Artists move people from inspiration to

action and direct hope toward a new reality that

can be share by everyone. In the end

Hope matters.

I have such respect for this women and her voice. Run out and buy her book “Hope Matters”.

In fact read the others too.