'Hope' Is the Thing With Feathers. A screenshot of photos taken by readers for the Lens blog’s “A World at 7 Billion” project that were tagged with the word “hope.”
Go to related blog post » This week our Poetry Pairing is a little different than usual. We’re matching Emily Dickinson’s classic, “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers,” with a series of photographs rather than an article. In October, around the time the seven billionth person entered the world, Lens, a Times photography blog, asked readers to help them create a “visual time capsule” that could show those born in 2011 what our world looks like today, since by the time those children grow up the world will be different. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes (Author of Self-Reliance and Other Essays) 'To the Light of September'
View from a cabin in the Maine woods where the author of “Was It Hard, Our Year in the Woods?
Yes and No” installed a game camera on a tree last October. Go to related blog post » This week’s Poetry Pairing matches W.S. Merwin’s poem “To the Light of September” with “Was It Hard, Our Year in the Woods?