Lessons from a succulent.

Succulents stand up to the test of time and the elements, offering a model of tenacity and endurance. They teach us that merely staying alive in difficult times like the ones we are enduring, is enough and can be quite beautiful.

So few grains of happiness

measured against all the dark

and still the scales balance.

The world asks of us

only the strength we have and we give it.

Then it asks more, and we give it.

(Jane Hirschfield, from The Weighing)