“Gratitude to you for the snack and the pouch and, most of all, the susurrations that recent sequences will begin taking a turn up life’s sinuous highway.”

“We had distanced from the burn and were watching wind’s enstrophy exacerbate, rather than extinguish, the catastrophe.”

“Mom made it too, but is too out-tuckered for a feed? Good on you. She led us to ruderal sprouts away from the flames, guided by a survivor’s sense.”

Instinct and luck may carry one down legs long and patches rough, but compassion and mercy are the jumpstarts that bounce the resilient back to their tale. ; )