On the trail, I spotted a small blackberry patch its pink petals waved me over, the blackberries are weeks away from ripeness. As I walked on I thought, "What is it with blackberries this year?" It is as if it is my symbolic message guide or something. Thinking that struck me funny as Covid 19 has changed me… Today a large black beetle was crossing the road I assumed it would be flattened before it could cross safely. Before Covid 19 I would have been too afraid to pick it up but not today, I scooped it up and carried it across the road to safety. Okay picking up a large black beetle might not be the best example of how I have changed… Though the layers of changes are varied and are starting to take root inside me. But I feel the change, we all have changed, haven't we?
The blackberry patch I saw today wasn't ripe just like me; I am home, back in France, far from my family in California that I reconnected with for five months not quite back in place as my inner world juggles the time, distance, COVID 19 and finding my way around my surroundings my brain keeps saying "Thank you" instead of "Merci" and "Hello" instead of "Bonjour". Even though I am home, and very happy to be back, there is a time of adjustment or "nesting the nest" as Chelsea reminds me.
When I left California I was in the groove the blackberries were plentiful, big, juicy, and very ripe we celebrated with a blackberry-theme-dessert-evening-farewell.
Shortly after I arrived in California I wrote a post about, "Blackberry Faith" never did I expect that I would be there to see them ripen. When I left California I was in the groove the blackberries were plentiful, big, juicy, and very ripe we celebrated with a blackberry-theme-dessert-evening-farewell and now the wild French blackberries in the hills around our home are beginning to ripen…
Symbolically so am I.
Life continues in ways beyond my imagination often speaking with the most eloquent symbols intertwined with the cycle of nature, with its seasons, and mingling with hearts, souls, and minds.
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