Consolation | Hope In Exile

Good luck kid – Joseph (2019) d1270

By Pete / July 15, 2020 / 2010s, Cognitive & Emotional Dissonance, Consolation, Encouragement, Hope, Slider

You’re used to looking around to seeHow everybody else is doing itNow it seems like we’re all losing itYou read the paper, it’s all bad news in itThe train’s off the tracks, boat’s capsizedDon’t know the left from rightAnd you think, how am I gonna do this?

This is the song (good luck) – Punch Brothers (2020) d1269

By Pete / July 14, 2020 / 2000s, Consolation, Encouragement, Hope, Slider

I said good luck, good luck, good luckThese are tough timesBut we’ll get byGood luck

Leaving home – Queen (1978) d1265

By Pete / July 10, 2020 / 1970s, Action, Celebration, Cognitive & Emotional Dissonance, Consolation, Encouragement, Hope, Slider

Leavin’ home ain’t easyBut may be the only way

A sermon for inside a women’s prison – Nadia Bolz-Weber (2020) d1242

By Pete / June 17, 2020 / 2020s, Consolation, Encouragement, Hope, Resistance, Slider

Faith in this kind of God doesn’t produce cheerful optimism, I think it produces a gritty, defiant hope – a hope that God is still writing the story, and that despite the darkness, light still shines.

I can’t breathe – Chloë Nixon (2020) d1241

By Pete / June 16, 2020 / 2020s, Anger, Cognitive & Emotional Dissonance, Consolation, Despair, in Memorium, Justice, Resistance, Slider

911 come fend for mebut 911 is right in front of me

We gotta pray – Alicia Keys (2014) d1238

By Pete / June 13, 2020 / 2010s, Cognitive & Emotional Dissonance, Consolation, Despair, Encouragement, Hope, Slider

We are an extraordinary peopleLiving an ordinary lifeOne extraordinary questionAre we gonna run or fight?

One love – Elle Varner (2014) d1235

By Pete / June 10, 2020 / 2010s, Consolation, Despair, Encouragement, Hope, Resistance, Slider

But who’s to say that we can’t change and give one love, one love to everyone And who decides that its not the time, to give one love, one love to everyone

I can’t breathe – Peace Poets (2014) d1222

By Pete / May 28, 2020 / 2010s, Action, Anger, Consolation, Despair, History, in Memorium, Justice, Resistance, Slider

I still hear my brother crying — “I can’t breathe” Now I’m in the struggle singing — “I can’t leave” We calling out the violence of these racist police And WE ain’t gonna stop — til our people are free!