I finished reading “Hope’s Edge” by Francis and Anna Lappe. It’s quite inspirational in that it tells hard stories, but offers hope near the end with positive solutions. In one case, there’s the Grameen Bank in India that has offered loans to over 2 million women (mostly divorced, a taboo in that country’s societal mores). It’s nice to read things about this, as it’s balancing in a big way the book about Detroit we’re reading for next month’s session.