Hope is never calibrated to the fervor of optimism or the distress of pessimism. Hope is fixed to a larger horizon and rooted in an expansive memory.

Hope cannot be auctioned off to the highest bidder; cannot be put up for collateral; cannot be traded on the big board or leveraged in the futures market. In fact, the only future hope can secure is that the last shall be first; the least rising above the most, the homeless over the host; privileging the humbled over the boast.

Here the bound jump the crowned for seats at the paschal feast prepared for the least, the lost, and the languishing. The finest linen of the royalty taken to clothe the festal table.