Hi friends,

 

I hope you got the chance to read last week’s edition, as some of you, my dear thoughtful readers, sent me messages that resonated. Thank you.

 

I am sure many of you are dreading what’s to come this week and the near future. According to The Atlas of the Heart: “Dread occurs frequently in response to high-probability negative events; its magnitude increases as the dreaded event draws nearer.”

 

I am here to remind you of hope, also referring to the same book:

 

“We need hope like we need air. To live without hope is to risk suffocating on hopelessness and despair, risk being crushed by the belief that there is no way out of what is holding us back, no way to get to what we desperately need. But hope is not what most of us think it is. It’s not a warm, fuzzy emotion that fills us with a sense of possibility. Hope is a way of thinking—a cognitive process. Yes, emotions play a role, but hope is made up of what researcher C. R. Snyder called a “trilogy of goals, pathways, and agency.”

Let’s check the hope trilogy against our cause:

When it comes to our cause, hope is inevitable.

Here is your weekly dose of The Sunday Spark ⚡️ a newsletter listing 3 sparks that I thought were worth starting your week with*: 

1. ✌️ I immensely enjoyed the Arabic translation of Louis Allday's introduction to the newly reissued biography of Ghassan Kanafani, which "outlines the choice Kanafani made between being an organic participant in the resistance and his life as a writer. Kanafani chose, and in doing so, chose his fate". The book came out in an eerie timing, September 2023. I can't wait for my copy to get here.

 

2. 🎓 Check the education hub for social media on Palestine awareness: https://www.thepalestineacademy.com/. I am proud of the effort that has been put into this website. A free crash course is there to help you learn about history.

 

3. 💭 Always need a reminder to focus:

 

"We must resist the temptation to drift along, reacting to whatever happens to us next, and deliberately select targets, from activities to relationships, that are worthy of our finite supplies of time and attention.”  

―Winifred Gallagher, Rapt

 

(Thank you Readwise for helping me find this quote from something I read)

🙏 Don’t forget that we can donate to support Palestine 🇵🇸. Jordan friends please donate to Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization. 

* Note: To the best of my ability, I am trying to share content by authors who have not disappointed me, and they are hard to come by! Please let me know if any author I share about showed disrespect to Palestine.

P.S. I am working on a couple of podcast episodes in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.

 

 

 

See you next Sunday First name / my dear friend!