Good morning. 🦌🦌🦌25 September 2025Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. ☠️Nobody knows the trouble I've seen; nobody knows my sorrow. But we have high hopes, we have high hopes, we have high-in-the-sky apple pie hopes. 🎶🎷🎸🎹🎺I sometimes sing that little mashup. My wife reminds me they come from two different songs. Of course I know that—but they fit together so well. The first line is from an old African American spiritual with unknown origins. The second borrows from High Hopes, written by Sammy Cahn (lyrics) and Jimmy Van Heusen (music). So we move—from trouble to hope. 🐜A friend once told me: Hope isn’t a course of action, but wishing is. I think I kind of get that. Hope means knowing there’s a light somewhere, and waiting for it to show up on your face. Wishing… well, wishing requires a magical entity to grant the favor. Like rubbing a lantern to conjure a genie. 🧞 A person might wish by closing their eyes and asking a numinous presence for help.Hope, though—it’s always there. At least until the very end, there’s light at the end of the tunnel. And it gets brighter if you help it along. If you hope for a new car, wishing won’t get you there. But working, saving, showing up—that might. If you hope someone will help you, it works best if you ask. Ask a real person. Wishing alone probably won’t bring the help.“If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” — Thich Nhat Hanh“Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch… is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.” — Lemony Snicket“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul—and sings the tunes without the words—and never stops at all.” — Emily Dickinson#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #deer #WhiteTailedDeer #fawn #morning #hope #with #troubles