Saturday, July 19, 2014

Summer treats

On Thursday, as I was biking to campus from downtown (a different route than I normally take), I spotted lots of blackberry brambles on the trail.  Though I was cutting it close to get to class on time, I thought of the two pictures you all posted on Facebook of you at the raspberry and blueberry farm.   Those pictures beautifully illustrated the call to savor summer, and they inspired me to just stop for 30 seconds and pick a blackberry for a treat along the way.  Thank you for the reminder to taste the goodness right in front of me. 

It also reminded me of this classic Zen story: 
"A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above.
Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. One the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it
tasted!" 



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