Hope: The Path of Intention

This piece reflects on hope as something quieter than optimism: an intention that becomes a path. At 26, while visiting Ilha de Moçambique, I encountered a bleached coral reef and confronted the feeling of being only one person in the face of environmental loss. Years later, through my work with NGOs, I found myself witnessing coral restoration in the Caribbean. I had not restored the reef, but I had found my way into a larger effort to bring life back. The piece asks what becomes possible when we choose a direction towards the future we wish to see, even when we cannot yet see the path.