As I write this, we here in the Westwood, MA area are currently in the middle of 11-out-of-14-days-of-rain. Easter has passed. My schedule is still full. The news holds yet more arguments, shootings, and pain. A girl could get pretty depressed, tbh. And yet, today outside my office, I saw this plant. It is mostly dead, or it appears to be mostly dead. Yet there are a few small leaves and a few new branches growing. Out of the brown and the dull there emerges a green new shoot