holding hope a talisman in my pocket soft smooth stone slowly rolls through my fingers breath of a meditation beads of a rosary or mala a prayer for a new year a new day a new hope …and thus, we enter a new year and a new opportunity to express ourselves creatively. I’ve played with words this past year in the form of poetry, and a podcast, and that is a new form of expression for me. What new mediums call to you? There is concrete hope on the horizon that life will