More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and 
over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the
light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another.
A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs—
all this resinous, unretractable earth. 

"Optimism" by Jane Hirshfield


haggadah Section: Kadesh
Source: "Given Sugar, Given Salt" by Jane Hirschfield