I am trying to choose to hope.
I am choosing to imagine public transportation.
Grocery stores with attached soup kitchens to decrease food waste.
Neighborhood meal- and garden-sharing programs.
Green spaces connecting to other green spaces.
The rainforest ADVANCING, churning up dry soil and turning it dark and healthy.
The sky filled with birds and the sea with fish, their populations increasing.
The air and water clean.
Emissions-free vehicles on roadways, with speeds governed, and safe streets for tricycles, bicycles, dogs, deer, and stray soccer balls.
Solar panels on every public building, over every parking lot.
Beehives and wildflowers on the open berms between roadways.
The total lack of gunshots around the world, and instead the sound of shovels, digging holes to plant fruit trees by public sidewalks.