Price tags on the church candle vending machine. Ancient hope. All along a business. A trade? Is hope an investment? I have to think of how one says „I’m invested in something“. Giving myself and giving everything. . You ask where our disappointed or abandoned hope goes. What happens to our ‚investment‘? . In the past, investment meant the ‚act of putting on robes‘. Do we strip off hopes like clothes? . investedinyou, theemperorsnewclothes, spooling, threadsandknots