I found this dead stump on the meadow where we laid down to spend a warm lazy afternoon in Berlin a few weeks ago. While it was obvious that the tree had been felled and it would never grow back, it was amazing how the stump left behind was host to a myriad of other life forms. There were grass blades growing out of it, many insects, numerous seeds waiting for rain, for more saplings to grow out of them.
So I am learning to keep calm, when things just seem to stagnate and are not going the way I expected them to.