Well, kind of. I was thrilled to find an article about Africa that had the word "hope" in the title without "no" in front of it. You have to read through a lot of horrible stuff, as usual, but the guy is a little bit optimistic! Honest!
OK, if you still want to read it, here it is.
It reminded me of the poem I shared with my students yesterday:
Sometimes
Sometimes things don't go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail.
Sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.
A people sometimes will step back from war,
elect an honest man, decide they care
enough, that they can't leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.
Sometimes our best intentions do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen; may it happen for you.
-- Sheenagh Pugh
8 hours ago
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