English Version | Editor's Letter: Love & Hope issue

Like all love letters, it speaks of the greater love that we so need to give and receive, of the love that intoxicates, of the love that lifts us up and makes us fly, of the love that is capable of anything and that fills up everything it touches with light.

Sterre Haket e Meerle Haket
Anouk Nitsche

Love and hope live intertwined... and together they move the most unshakable mountains. Love does not exist without believing in it.

And you always have to believe.

Alessia Merzlova
Branislav Simoncik

It is precisely in the greatest difficulties that hope is so necessary. It is also in moments of greatest despair and collapse that hope seems impossible to live, but just a drop of hope is enough to change everything. In us. And in the world.

Giselle Norman e Bradley Veragten
Alessio Albi

We need love, bigger than us. We need hope as a sense of the future. And hope that love never dies.

This issue is a love letter. And like all love letters, it can be ridiculous. It wouldn't be a love letter if it weren't ridiculous. But, after all, only those who never wrote love letters aAre the ones that are ridiculous.*

Sia e Ildjima.
Alexandra Sophie

*Excerpt inspired by the iconic All love letters are ridiculous, by Álvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa's heteronym), a poem that is always worth rereading.

Translated from the original in The Love & Hope Issue, published December 2023. Full stories and credits in the print issue.