This summer's drought prohibited the sunflowers around the bird feeder from coming up until about a month ago. They have just started to open and despite their small size are still quite pretty. They seem to stand in brave defiance of the imminent fall and ensuing winter. Wisconsin has its own 'must' built into the seasons and surviving the inevitable. But I do suppose a person could say that all of life is surviving the inevitable.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
we bear what we must
The resilience of the human spirit and will are remarkable to say the least. Ask anyone who has survived hell how they did it and they will always say 'One day at a time'. (Sometimes mixed with support, God, counseling, or drugs) If then, we survive what we must, I wonder if it all begins to crack up when there is an inkling that the 'must' is not as imperative as we had thought. Contrariwise, I wonder if life has become so comfortable that the 'must' has lolled off altogether. 
This summer's drought prohibited the sunflowers around the bird feeder from coming up until about a month ago. They have just started to open and despite their small size are still quite pretty. They seem to stand in brave defiance of the imminent fall and ensuing winter. Wisconsin has its own 'must' built into the seasons and surviving the inevitable. But I do suppose a person could say that all of life is surviving the inevitable.
This summer's drought prohibited the sunflowers around the bird feeder from coming up until about a month ago. They have just started to open and despite their small size are still quite pretty. They seem to stand in brave defiance of the imminent fall and ensuing winter. Wisconsin has its own 'must' built into the seasons and surviving the inevitable. But I do suppose a person could say that all of life is surviving the inevitable.
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