Love and Picking Raspberries

We joyfully, carefully labored among the many bees already at work. As we picked, we would eat raspberries, as well as place them into containers. When both our stomachs and our containers had sufficient raspberries, we went home to make jam. If you can put love into food, and I believe you can, love was in that jam. We enjoyed giving much of it away. And every time I tasted that jam, it transported me back to that raspberry patch, and to our sharing in nature’s bounty. The most obvious...