“Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured.”
Travis Beacham
Like most Americans of a certain age, I can’t see the date of September 11 without thinking of 2001. And, like most people, thinking of one tragedy reminds me of others. Sometimes, it is possible to respond to tragedy with a steadfast belief in a better tomorrow that comes into crisp focus in the mind’s eye. And sometimes, it’s all we can do to know this too shall pass, and to know that we can hold on until it does.