She stood barefoot in the sand, the hem of her faded denim brushing her boots, sun-warmed and worn in the best way. Her blonde hair caught the coastal breeze, curling and lifting as if it, too, wanted to wander. A cowgirl by nature, she had traveled far from open plains and dusty roads to stand at the edge of something vast and blue.
Before her, the ocean stretched endlessly, a moving mirror of light and possibility. In the distance, palm trees rose along the shoreline—tall, graceful, and unafraid. They leaned gently toward the water, their fronds whispering secrets only the wind could understand.
She had always admired palm trees.
They didn’t fight the storm. They didn’t stand rigid or proud in defiance. Instead, they bent. They swayed. They trusted that flexibility was not weakness, but wisdom.
Life had taught her the same lesson.
She had known storms—sharp winds of loss, heavy rains of doubt, seasons that tested her roots. There were moments she thought standing strong meant standing still, but the palms showed her otherwise. Strength, she realized, is the courage to bend without breaking. To bow to the moment without surrendering who you are.
As the tide rolled in and out, she felt it settle in her bones: resilience isn’t about resisting life’s storms—it’s about learning how to move with them. The palms endured because their roots ran deep, anchored beneath shifting sands, unseen but unshakable.
She placed a hand over her heart and smiled.
Like the palms, she would bend when the winds came. She would sway when the storms roared. And when the skies cleared—as they always do—she would still be standing, kissed by the sun, stronger for every storm she survived.
The ocean shimmered. The palms danced.
And the cowgirl, grounded and free, knew she was exactly where she was meant to be.
 
Original Painting by Tiffany Bohrer on premium archival canvas.
 
Hand Painted on archival gallery wrap canvas on a wooden frame that comes ready to hang with protective dust cover on back of canvas
Stretched Canvas Wall Art
Signed on front
Signed and dated on back
Size:  16" x 20"
 ½-inch Depth
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