Thursday Thirteen

Some things in the world show us that resilience is everywhere, even in people, and that no matter how hard, mean, dirty, or disgusting the world can be, life and love endure.

1. Moss on stone grows where it shouldn’t, softening the hard edges of the world one green inch at a time.

2. A Tree with a lightning scar has a visible wound, but the trunk and the leaves keep lifting toward the light.

3. River can find new paths when blocked. The water doesn't argue, it simply curves, deepens, or widens until it can move again.

4. A candle flame that stays steady in a draft is a small, stubborn brightness that refuses to be talked out of existing.

5. A worn footpath shows a route that isn't carved in a day but instead shaped by return and consistency, that quiet insistence of coming back.

6. A spiderweb after rain hangs heavy with droplets, maybe it sags a little, but it still holding its pattern, still catches the light.

7. A seedling pushing through asphalt is a reminder that life doesn’t always wait for permission.

8. A mountain ridge shows the long patience of standing still, maintaining your stance, being strong and unyielding in the face of the whims of weather. 

9. Birds that return to the same branch or nest each year show a small act of faithfulness to place, repeated without fanfare.

10. A well‑mended quilt shows that repairs don’t hide the past; they make the whole thing stronger, stitch by stitch.

11. A lighthouse in fog is doing its work whether anyone sees it or not, steady in its purpose.

12. The tide always comes back. It retreats as part of its rhythm, but that's not the end, it's a part of the movement of change.

13. The first green shoot after winter is a quiet declaration that the season has turned, even if the air hasn’t caught up yet.

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