Sunday Best – August 8, 2021
I once read about a famous professor from Maine, who refused a prestigious invitation because it fell in the middle of blueberry season, and he never left home during those weeks. Though I can’t recall his name, I do admire this clarity.
It’s blueberry season now in Massachusetts, and every day or two I wander out to the bushes by the fence to fill a small bowl. We are in sync, the berries ripening at just about the same pace they can be eaten. I do not need the excess of the giant containers from Stop and Shop, though they still beckon.
The season is fleeting, and the harvest is modest, but it is enough.
It is plenty.
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