The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
(By Paul Rogat Loeb)
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In THE IMPOSSIBLE WILL TAKE A LITTLE WHILE, a phrase borrowed from Billie Holliday, the editor of Soul of a Citizen brings together fifty stories and essays that range across nations, eras, wars, and political movements.
Danusha Goska, an Indiana activist with a paralyzing physical disability, writes about overcoming political immobilization, drawing on her history with the Peace Corps and Mother Teresa. Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, finds value in seemingly doomed or futile actions taken by oppressed peoples.
Rosemarie Freeney Harding recalls the music that sustained the civil rights movement, and Paxus Calta-Star recounts the powerful vignette of an 18-year-old who launched the overthrow of Bulgaria’s dictatorship.
Many of the essays are new, others classic works that continue to inspire. Together, these writers explore a path of heartfelt community involvement that leads beyond despair to compassion and hope. The voices collected in THE IMPOSSIBLE WILL TAKE A LITTLE WHILE will help keep us all working for a better world despite the obstacles.
pt. 1. Seeds of the possible. From "The cure at Troy" / Seamus Heaney
A slender thread / Diane Ackerman
Ordinary resurrections / Jonathan Kozol
Standing up for children / Marian Wright Edelman
You are brilliant and the earth is hiring / Paul Hawken
Political paralysis / Danusha Veronica Goska
pt. 2. Dark before the dawn. From "September 1, 1939" / W.H. Auden
The optimism of uncertainty / Howard Zinn
On being different / Dan Savage
The dark years / Nelson Mandela
An orientation of the heart / Václav Havel
Reluctant activists / Mary Pipher
pt. 3. Everyday grace. "The peace of wild things" / Wendell Berry
Gate A-4 / Naomi Shihab Nye
Mountain music / Scott Russell Sanders
The Sukkah of Shalom / Arthur Waskow
Getting our gaze back / Rose Marie Berger
Fragile and hidden / Henri Nouwen
There is a season / Parker Palmer
pt. 4. Rebellious imagination. "Celebration of the human voice" / Eduardo Galeano
"Last night as I was sleeping" / Antonio Machada
Childhood and poetry / Pablo Neruda
To love the marigold / Susan Griffin
Walking with the wind / John Lewis
Rough translation / Toni Mirosevich
Jesus and Alinsky / Walter Wink
Stories from the cha cha cha / Vern Huffman
Do not go gentle / Sherman Alexie
Despair is a lie we tell ourselves / Tony Kushner
pt. 5. Courage is contagious. "To be of use" / Marge Piercy
The transformation of silence / Audre Lorde
The small work in the great work / Victoria Safford
We are all Khaled Said / Wael Ghonim
Arab revolutions / Stephen Zunes
Not deterred / Paxus Calta
In what do I place my trust? / Rosalie Bertell
Faith works / Jim Wallis
The progressive story of America / Bill Moyers
pt. 6. The global stage. "Imagine the angels of bread" / Martín Espada
Kids, trees, and climate change / Mark Hertsgaard
Curitiba / Bill McKibben with a postscript by Paul Rogat Loeb
Come September / Arundhati Roy
The black hole / Ariel Dorfman
Behemoth in a bathrobe / Carla Seaquist
pt. 7. Radical dignity. "How have you spent your life?" / Jalaluddin Rumi
Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr
The real Rosa Parks / Paul Rogat Loeb
Prisoners of hope / Cornel West
Road to redemption / Billy Wayne Sinclair
Resisting terror / Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall
Composing a life story / Mary Catherine Bateson
pt. 8. Beyond hope. "Origami emotion" / Elizabeth Barrette
From "The New York poem" / Sam Hamill
Staying the course / Mary-Wynne Ashford
The elm dance / Joanna Macy
Is there hope on climate change? / David Roberts
The inevitability trap / K.C. Golden
Hoping against hope / Nadezhda Mandelstam
You have to pick your team / Sonya Vetra Tinsley, as told to Paul Rogat Loeb
From Hope to hopelessness / Margaret Wheatley
pt. 9. Only justice can stop a curse. "Still I rise" / Maya Angelou
Only justice can stop a curse / Alice Walker
The clan of one-breasted women / Terry Tempest Williams
Next year in Mas'Ha / Starhawk
The gruntwork of peace / Amos Oz
No future without forgiveness / Desmond Tutu”
