Esperar

I came across Pope Francis’ autobiography in bookshop. This text from the first page feels like a fitting prologue to the new year:

People often say “wait and hope” — so much so that the word esperar in Spanish means both “to hope” and “to wait” — but hope is above all the virtue of movement and the engine of change: It’s the tension that brings together memory and utopia to truly build the dreams that await us. And if a dream fades, we need to go back and dream it again, in new forms, drawing with hope from the embers of memory.

Here’s to a year of hoping and redreaming in new forms.