Chapter 29 of Hope: A User's Manual - Do you know what the best selling game in the world is? It isn’t Tetris from back in the day or something like Call of Duty in recent years or even a venerable sports game like the Madden series. Guesses? Minecraft.
I read this one this morning. As a huge Star Wars fan since my youth, my favorite character has changed in recent years. The sequel trilogy (as well as other new stories in novels, comics, and shows) has elevated Leia to my favorite character in Star Wars (above Yoda and Luke). The reason is that she is the character that embodies hope in the saga, particularly this idea that a happy ending is something that can be checked off a to-do list. When everyone else around her fled when things got hard, Leia stayed and led a new generation to combat the evils that were presumed defeated. She lost so much, but Leia, more than anyone else, understands that "justice work is an infinite game." As Holdo and Poe tell us, Leia knew that "hope is like the sun, if you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night."
Love this one
Oh, yeah. You know I'm with you on the "playing" field. I'm thinking about Mindcraft. Can we teach people to play it in small groups?
Oh how I’d love to do that but I think there’s a lot of computer use basics that would need to be overcome for a lot of folks…
What about making it intergenerational? Bring a kid?
I read this one this morning. As a huge Star Wars fan since my youth, my favorite character has changed in recent years. The sequel trilogy (as well as other new stories in novels, comics, and shows) has elevated Leia to my favorite character in Star Wars (above Yoda and Luke). The reason is that she is the character that embodies hope in the saga, particularly this idea that a happy ending is something that can be checked off a to-do list. When everyone else around her fled when things got hard, Leia stayed and led a new generation to combat the evils that were presumed defeated. She lost so much, but Leia, more than anyone else, understands that "justice work is an infinite game." As Holdo and Poe tell us, Leia knew that "hope is like the sun, if you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night."
Yes, I love this! And she’s the one who speaks “hope” at the end of Rogue One and lives hope over and over.