"Hope" is the thing with feathers

We were in Washington DC for a mortgage bankers' convention a few years ago.  While Todd was doing his conference business, I went exploring and discovered the photogenic and hip Blagden Alley, home to the outdoor DC Alley Museum - a series of colorful murals painted on garage doors and building walls. This is Lisa Marie Thalhammer's LOVE mural. Where there is love, hope is close by.

 “Hope” is the thing with feathers

By emily dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.