Resilience

     In a world that seems to be increasingly unpredictable and with digital media providing us with perhaps more news, especially of the “bad” variety, than we can logically process without risking overload on several levels, it is reassuring to know that evidence of resilience is also readily available. Even right outside the door.  This morning as I was watering drought-affected plants I noticed that several varieties that had been eaten down to the ground by similarly drought- affected deer had new green shoots sprouting up. Resilience. And the deer themselves now have spotted fawns at their sides. Resilience.

     Human resilience…what better example than the victims of the Waldo Canon Fire who already have building permits to start again?  Or Baby Hugo, who was born a few days after the Aurora shooting in the same hospital where his father, gravely wounded in that same shooting, fights to recover.  When newborn Hugo was brought into the hospital room his father’s vital signs indicated he knew his son was there. Resilience. 

     And, of course, there is the resilience found in countless rescued animals. Even those most cruelly treated by humans often wag their tails and lick their rescuers when they sense that they are safe.  And those animals that have, through no fault of their own, lost their owners and their homes? They welcome a new forever family with love and gratitude.  Please consider adoption. Encourage resilience.