What Picking Blackberries Can Teach Us About Life
Melissa and I went blackberry picking today. As we negotiated thorns & stinging nettle thistles & insects I got to thinking about how what we were doing was a metaphor for life:
We went out to look for something sweet & nourishing something that would make us feel good & fill us with joy. The process of getting to it wasn’t easy we got stung & pricked & dirty. We hollered & yelped. We revised our strategies. We used the tools we had and improvised a few along the way. We jok