“Hope is a function of struggle,” the Peabody Award-winning creator and host of On Being, Krista Tippett, said in a public conversation with me at Long House Reserve in East Hampton in July of 2025. “We get courageous and we learn to be hopeful — which is to have faith that we can do things that don’t look obviously easy right now — because of those times in our lives when we got through something in our lives we didn’t think we could get through.” For the full conversation, click the link below.
Krista Tippett and Biddle Duke, Long House Reserve, East Hampton
Photo: Durrell Godfrey
Hope takes courage, vulnerability, imagination... I (me, Biddle) had to prepare for this crackling, wonderful hour with this bright star of humanity I have admired and listened to and read for decades. I was nervous as hell, but it was fun, illuminating, valuable, beautiful.
“…Another fallacy we’ve inherited is that we’re supposed to be heroic individuals and therefore that hope of the virtues are qualities of character that we would build up in ourselves and carry alone, and that’s not the way it works. We have to surround ourselves with others who may carry hope for us on days when it is too much to ask of ourselves…”
“Vulnerability is an important part of being human…”
To watch or listen to the full talk: Grounded Conversation with Krista Tippett and Biddle Duke