Diary 118

Diary 118

Tuesday, July 14th

Since it was the anniversary of La Prise de la Bastille (the event that started off the French Revolution) we felt an outing was in order. So we took the two older grandkids with us to the blueberry and raspberry fields of western mass. Much excitement, and no real need for face coverings as we were the only people there, in a valley full of blueberry bushes, with a few curious cows to look at us over the fence.

This was the second time since lockdown that I’d been beyond my town, and it was wildly exciting for the two girls. Blueberries, and open air! Cows and trees! Unknown places and black raspberries! 

Seeing their joy evoked within me all the joy in life and nature that had been buried by recent events, and it did me good to be brought back to myself. For if we lose our sense of joy in Nature, our sense of wonder and astonishment, what’s the point?

We all returned home a bit fruit-juice smeared and happy.

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