I’ve heard Emily Dickinson’s line many times, “Hope is the thing with feathers…”. I thought it was a non sequitur. Just now I looked up the whole verse and came to understand how beautifully it captures an inexplicable human characteristic. People want to have hope. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” Think of three things that give you hope and for which you are grateful.