Our Invincible Summer

Can  you find your “Invincible Summer”?

I get that line from writer and philosopher Albert Camus, who wrote one of my favorite lines: “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”

Deep down, I’m an optimist. Maybe not so deep down. And this line resonates deeply with me

Yet Camus also cautioned that “hope is tantamount to resignation.”

That’s right. Hope is not a strategy. And Camus added “to live is not to be resigned.” This reveals a profound truth: if we want to live, we cannot simply rely on hope to get us through.

One more from Camus: he wrote in his essay “The Almond Trees” that “we must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust… It is a superhuman task. But superhuman is the term for tasks we take a long time to accomplish.”

There is a lot of work ahead of us. We are in this together.

What “invincible summer” do you carry within you?

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