Daily Dose of the Southwest: Reach for the Sky

After months without rain, the Ocotillo’s blooms are dried up, brown.

And yet it still reaches for the sky.

It’s once brilliant green leaves have shriveled and fallen to the ground.

And yet it still reaches for the sky.

Whether the sky is deep blue or middle gray or filled with stars or shooting off lightning bolts…

It still reaches for the sky.

And Ocotillo will not stop reaching until the day it dies. It’s a resilient sort, really.

Let us not get stuck in the rut of the status quo, but keeping reach for the sky. We owe it to ourselves.

-Jake

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