Hopeful Things: a List

Blank canvasesBlank PagesSeed packetsNew plantsTrain ticketsFuture dreams The sight of a surprise parcel waiting outside your doorRolls of filmCollaborations with gifted and respected artistic colleaguesNew (beautiful) pensHelping my neighborsMaking a new friendSmiling at a strangerA freshly made bedNew blank notebooksThe thought of a small child named Volodia, documenting a 1924 Soviet Leningrad with an unwieldy large format cameraThe first of the month15 minutes just before dawnLearning a...