Last week was a bad one for anyone who believes in democracy, justice and decency. Even for people who are willing to settle for basic humanity.
I’m not even going to list specifics; just
know that the entire world was covered in a layer of shit that came out of the
firehose anchored to the Oval Office, and it’s going to take so long for us to
dig ourselves out from it.
So I’m going back to Nature for my
gratitude today. Because she just keeps doing her thing, no matter how much
humans stomp around in a dominance display. On the same site where developers
are spewing up 82 “luxury” townhouses in five acres of space, where they’ve
done their best to turn the three ponds that they’re required to retain
(because they’re part of the headwaters of Difficult Run) into sludge, this
hibiscus (I think) is reaching for the sun.
(I couldn’t get closer to it because the
developers’ neglect of the landscape has resulted in it being overrun by poison
ivy, and I did not fancy my skin becoming a battleground for the fight between
mosquitoes and urushiol oil rashes.)
Nature reminds me that we’re in a
marathon, not a sprint. I need to be thinking long game, just like the lotus
and the hibiscus.
(Also, tbh, like the poison ivy.)
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