hope?

On finally (somewhat reluctantly) waking this morning, I fumbled my way to laptop, logged into email. Nothing too urgent on this Sunday am, so skimmed through some newspaper headlines. Which, I'm happy to say (for this day) suddenly seem unusually filled with possible positivity:
"Gaza skies calm as Israel halts offensive"
"Optimism over DRC peace deal"
"Washington gears up for dawning of Obama era"

I'm not as naive as to think the world's problems are over, that peace will reign into the future or that all is well in any way, but, just for today anyway, it's quite nice to, for once, scan through headlines that actually bring a glimmer of hope rather than despair. (Reading a bit further into said articles for yet another glimpse of the extent of carnage wrecked in Gaza in recent weeks, and onto some others e.g. "Hungry Zimbabweans see even leaner times ahead" quickly reminds that all is still far from rosy in this world we live in.)

But for a personal perspective on this day think I'll try cling to the glimmer of hope (elusive though it may seem) for the moment.