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What brings you hope?
Jul. 14th, 2025 08:11 amMy weekly meetings with my therapist plus additional weekly meetings with Yvette Erasmus’ Conversations From The Heart community bring me hope along with pretty consistent communication skills studies and adaptations for emotional empathy in a radically non-conducive world.
Marshall Rosenberg’s work and Nonviolent Communication bring me hope.
The way the lgbt community is standing up for itself and I see so many people peacefully protesting the current administration brings me hope.
My cousin who’s now retired after 17 years of being a city supervisor brings me hope. My uncle, a retired fire chief and educator brings me hope. His daughter, a 911 operator and her husband, a cop brings me hope. My good friend and his brother, current firefighter, brings me hope. Their family of healthcare workers and educators bring me hope. My brother in law’s sister, a teacher, brings me hope. My friend from high school, a college educator, brings me hope.
That I know so many beautiful, capable people who are truly doing all they can for people, brings me hope.
My friend from junior high and my buddy’s girlfriend currently attending college in their 30s brings me hope. My cousin, now in his 40s and retired from the Air Force, just finishing his associates degree gives me hope.
My straightedge tattoos and Scout determination plus reconnecting with BSA friends and childhood friends bring me hope. My vasectomy brings me hope.
My sister’s children and all the literally dozens of amazing kids in my family bring me hope.
My brother in law and his dad’s small business that I could potentially work at brings me hope. That I have a current, valid enhanced license brings me hope.
I also have a camera and a family of people who love to be celebrated. My brother in law and sister have a million dollar Star Wars basement and half a dozen or more cosplay, some commissioned for thousands of dollars and they know quite a few comic and toy collectible traders and collectors who could use a proper photographer… and my father is a Dodge Viper engineer who’s currently touring North America with his gen IV Viper and trailer to be driven at raceways across the continent.
Dad's friends also own and race the 2 SRT Neons his buddy and him built back in the early 00s with a few other cars under Jankowski Motorsport.
Plus a few cousins have a large amount of collector cars they race on track days and bring to auto shows.
Being a photographer is bringing me hope.
…and I’m hoping to differentiate from people who want me to use my camera for their OF content but I’m also desperate for loving community so there’s that.
Marshall Rosenberg’s work and Nonviolent Communication bring me hope.
The way the lgbt community is standing up for itself and I see so many people peacefully protesting the current administration brings me hope.
My cousin who’s now retired after 17 years of being a city supervisor brings me hope. My uncle, a retired fire chief and educator brings me hope. His daughter, a 911 operator and her husband, a cop brings me hope. My good friend and his brother, current firefighter, brings me hope. Their family of healthcare workers and educators bring me hope. My brother in law’s sister, a teacher, brings me hope. My friend from high school, a college educator, brings me hope.
That I know so many beautiful, capable people who are truly doing all they can for people, brings me hope.
My friend from junior high and my buddy’s girlfriend currently attending college in their 30s brings me hope. My cousin, now in his 40s and retired from the Air Force, just finishing his associates degree gives me hope.
My straightedge tattoos and Scout determination plus reconnecting with BSA friends and childhood friends bring me hope. My vasectomy brings me hope.
My sister’s children and all the literally dozens of amazing kids in my family bring me hope.
My brother in law and his dad’s small business that I could potentially work at brings me hope. That I have a current, valid enhanced license brings me hope.
I also have a camera and a family of people who love to be celebrated. My brother in law and sister have a million dollar Star Wars basement and half a dozen or more cosplay, some commissioned for thousands of dollars and they know quite a few comic and toy collectible traders and collectors who could use a proper photographer… and my father is a Dodge Viper engineer who’s currently touring North America with his gen IV Viper and trailer to be driven at raceways across the continent.
Dad's friends also own and race the 2 SRT Neons his buddy and him built back in the early 00s with a few other cars under Jankowski Motorsport.
Plus a few cousins have a large amount of collector cars they race on track days and bring to auto shows.
Being a photographer is bringing me hope.
…and I’m hoping to differentiate from people who want me to use my camera for their OF content but I’m also desperate for loving community so there’s that.
