Dicette 'o pappece vicin' 'a noce: damme 'o tiempo ca te spertoso

Persistence opens what force can’t.

The root of time

Outside my grandmother’s building there’s a tree that grew inside a wall. Not around it: inside it. A root found a crack between two stones and over twenty years pried it wide open. Every time I walk by I stop and look at it for a minute. Water and time did something no one could have done by hand, and nobody noticed while it was happening.