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Dan Hines
@DanJHines
retreat leader, coach, poet, priest
Oct 22, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A 2020 BC Election Poem
-Dan Hines

Sometimes hope is optimism.
I like those moments.

Sometimes hope can only be raw defiance.
Sometimes hope feels more like refusal.
It feels like refusal tonight.
1/9 I refuse.

I refuse to be silent.
I refuse to be limited to binary either/or reactions when I know a third way is possible.
I refuse to lie to myself that I can’t change any of this.
I refuse to be complacent as powerful corporate interests corrupt our politics.
2/9
Oct 20, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Thanks @DylanHoulihan4

I've included your thoughtful reflections in this thread. Thank you for your words.

"The provincial election is coming up and it has been a rather dull campaign with the NDP seeming to have a commanding lead over the BC Liberal Party" 1/7 "which has done an excellent job of looking rudderless. Last election, I had the great privilege of voting for Dan Hines of the @BCGreens when he ran in Kamloops-North Thompson." 2/7