
Picking Your Perspective
This is heavy work. Unending work. And while we’re at it, we must keep picking blueberries. We must keep looking for the small ripe patches that are right there for the picking if only we look.

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It rained. And that was just fine.
The movie was ridiculously long and obscure and, frankly, dull. And that was just fine.
I’d intended to take the day off work and play in the garden. But it rained. So I didn’t. And that was just fine.
No fancy dinner — movie popcorn and afterwards a cheeseburger at the dive bar I’ve gone to since I’ve been old enough to go to dive bars. And that was lovely.