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Hope is Not a Strategy

Hope is Not a Strategy

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Karen Hinks
Jul 07, 2024
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This is my “Things Can Be Worse” photo. For decades, I kept it thumbtacked to my bulletin board (remember those), just above my desk, as a reminder that no matter how bad things were that prompted this photo, they can always be worse.

For context: my partner and I were teetering on the edge of extinction. Neither one of us wanted to be the one to initiat…

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