HOLD ON

Weather-wise,
it is overcast and gloomy.
Nature has arrived in full force
bringing devastation and tragedy.

Politically,
aftershocks of the global tariff war
have begun to arrive in full force
heaping grief, disillusionment, anger and unbelievable fear.

When the going-got-rough for our forbears:
… poverty, war, hurricanes, ill health,
they held on to inheritance of the generations before them
their ancestors
who provided a legacy
of endurance and strength and hope.

Sometimes, that legacy was all they had to hold onto.
These days, it may be all we have to hold onto.

As the mountains in the photo speak of strength
the trees speak of endurance
the roses speak of hope
… all in one photo
inside each of us
through the legacy entrusted us,
by those-who-have-gone-before
is strength, endurance, hope.

In difficult times,
let us “hold on.”
We will.
We must hold on.

Just as our ancestors have, in the past,
one step,
one moment,
at a time
we, too,
will “hold on!”

Photo & Text © June Maffin
blog, Facebook Group, and Bluesky