#10 summer shards

All my energy has gone into arranging pots and flowers; greeting old friends and making new ones. At the end of the day Warren walked Luna (the dog). Afterwards we sat outside on the swing and Luna rolled and rolled on her back as if to shake off the oomph of the day, happy to feel the grass and bask in the sky.

Optimism

More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs–all this resinous, unretractable earth.

–Jane Hirshfield, in Given Sugar, Given Salt, HarperCollins, 2001, p. 71