Georgetown Peabody Library

The impossible will take a little while, perseverance and hope in troubled times, edited by Paul Rogat Loeb

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

The impossible will take a little while

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edited by Paul Rogat Loeb

perseverance and hope in troubled times

What keeps us going when times get tough? How do we keep on working for a more humane world, no matter how hard it sometimes seems? In a time when our involvement has never been needed more, this anthology of political hope will help readers with the essential work of healing our communities, our nation, our planet--despite all odds

pt. 1. Seeds of the possible. From "The cure at Troy" / Seamus Heaney -- A slender thread / Diane Ackerman -- Ordinary resurrections / Jonathan Kozol -- Standing up for children / Marian Wright Edelman -- You are brilliant and the earth is hiring / Paul Hawken -- Political paralysis / Danusha Veronica Goska -- pt. 2. Dark before the dawn. From "September 1, 1939" / W.H. Auden -- The optimism of uncertainty / Howard Zinn -- On being different / Dan Savage -- The dark years / Nelson Mandela -- An orientation of the heart / Václav Havel -- Reluctant activists / Mary Pipher -- pt. 3. Everyday grace. "The peace of wild things" / Wendell Berry -- Gate A-4 / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Mountain music / Scott Russell Sanders -- The Sukkah of Shalom / Arthur Waskow -- Getting our gaze back / Rose Marie Berger -- Fragile and hidden / Henri Nouwen -- There is a season / Parker Palmer -- pt. 4. Rebellious imagination. "Celebration of the human voice" / Eduardo Galeano -- "Last night as I was sleeping" / Antonio Machada -- Childhood and poetry / Pablo Neruda -- To love the marigold / Susan Griffin -- Walking with the wind / John Lewis -- Rough translation / Toni Mirosevich -- Jesus and Alinsky / Walter Wink -- Stories from the cha cha cha / Vern Huffman -- Do not go gentle / Sherman Alexie -- Despair is a lie we tell ourselves / Tony Kushner -- pt. 5. Courage is contagious. "To be of use" / Marge Piercy -- The transformation of silence / Audre Lorde -- The small work in the great work / Victoria Safford -- We are all Khaled Said / Wael Ghonim -- Arab revolutions / Stephen Zunes -- Not deterred / Paxus Calta -- In what do I place my trust? / Rosalie Bertell -- Faith works / Jim Wallis -- The progressive story of America / Bill Moyers -- pt. 6. The global stage. "Imagine the angels of bread" / Martín Espada -- Kids, trees, and climate change / Mark Hertsgaard -- Curitiba / Bill McKibben with a postscript by Paul Rogat Loeb -- Come September / Arundhati Roy -- The black hole / Ariel Dorfman -- Behemoth in a bathrobe / Carla Seaquist -- pt. 7. Radical dignity. "How have you spent your life?" / Jalaluddin Rumi -- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The real Rosa Parks / Paul Rogat Loeb -- Prisoners of hope / Cornel West -- Road to redemption / Billy Wayne Sinclair -- Resisting terror / Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall -- Composing a life story / Mary Catherine Bateson -- pt. 8. Beyond hope. "Origami emotion" / Elizabeth Barrette -- From "The New York poem" / Sam Hamill -- Staying the course / Mary-Wynne Ashford -- The elm dance / Joanna Macy -- Is there hope on climate change? / David Roberts -- The inevitability trap / K.C. Golden -- Hoping against hope / Nadezhda Mandelstam -- You have to pick your team / Sonya Vetra Tinsley, as told to Paul Rogat Loeb -- From Hope to hopelessness / Margaret Wheatley -- pt. 9. Only justice can stop a curse. "Still I rise" / Maya Angelou -- Only justice can stop a curse / Alice Walker -- The clan of one-breasted women / Terry Tempest Williams -- Next year in Mas'Ha / Starhawk -- The gruntwork of peace / Amos Oz -- No future without forgiveness / Desmond Tutu