inspired.
We have been in one of the worst droughts for three years now. This morning I was just looking around at all the trees and the tiniest grasses growing up through the cracks between bricks and they all are obviously suffering. The trees are dying at the tips, the grasses are 1/3 the size they normally would be and bleached to a dull brown. All the plants are hunkering down, their suffering is silent, their powerful will to live and grow still alive--no energy for complaint, only for survival. They are adapting to what is. We humans have a hard time with this. We want to scream and cry when things get hard, when things change, when we don't get what we want or need. Some of these trees are hundreds of years old. This is not the first drought they have lived through. Maybe this will be the one that finally takes them down. But this morning all I can see is peaceful acceptance and getting on with the business of living and it is inspiring to me.