Since our blog debuted in 2017, we have published 500+ posts. While some of you may have been with us from the start (thank you, loyal readers!), others may have joined us more recently.
As a result, we’re highlighting some of the posts that have garnered a lot of views or that address topics of continuing interest in the current moment — posts that you may have missed or that you might want to revisit.
Today’s archival find: two posts published in 2020, “Hope, Part I” and “Hope, Part 2.”
As Phil Nel explained when first introducing these posts,
As the days get darker and anxieties seem to expand, we asked faculty and graduate students to share a favorite quotation on the theme of hope. They were happy to oblige.
Visit “Hope, Part I” and “Hope, Part 2” to read reflections from a range of authors, including Louisa May Alcott (“Hope, and keep busy”) to Octavia Butler (“Kindness eases change. / Love quiets fear”) to Rebecca Solnit (“Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed”). We hope these selections can help parry literal or metaphorical darkness gathering nearby.
— Karin Westman, Department Head
K-State English 