I remember years ago seeing a little yellow flower growing right through a crack in a tennis court. I was so moved by the ability of that little flower to find its way to the light.
And all these years later, I am once again moved by the power of nature. Here is a lovely evergreen tree growing right in the middle of a tennis court. I am in awe of its power to grow in such a hostile environment. There are many lessons here, and as far as I can tell, all of them are optimistic!
I am reminded that nature surely has the ability to grow right over and around, and demolish and overtake all that human beings have paved and built and created. And the process would probably not take as long as you might imagine. Pieces of land next to the highway we frequently travel used to be corn fields. Now they are forests, and that was in recent memory.
Nature has its power. Life will have its way. Sometimes there is absolutely nothing that can stop it. All it needs is the tiniest toehold, or ray of light, and life will push itself forward.
I stand in awe.
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