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not people

As I was picking blackberries this morning, I was startled by a little snake.  She was suspended in the blackberry thicket, maybe finding the air more pleasant than the wet ground, maybe hunting the frogs that inhabit the ditch below the berries.  For just a moment, I was an Eve – thinking about fruit, but…

small things

Some things are so small, we will never lay eyes on them, and they can change our lives in an instant (bacteria, atoms, for instance).  Other things are so large that they are invisible, and they change our lives every day whether we think of them or not (the galaxy, and love).  Often, these two…