Good Morning!

Saturday morning, I got up early, before the heat and humidity had a chance to set in, and I went blueberry picking.

You pull up to a wide spot on the road that serves as parking, where you see a sign with the rules posted:

$7 a gallon. Leave money in the mailbox.

This blueberry patch was on the honor system. Beneath the sign was a low table with 6-quart buckets for your convenience, and there were ladders scattered throughout the patch if you wanted the blueberries on top.

Walking down the rows (that is a picture of the patch up top there), there were families quietly picking there own, using hushed tones, as if they were in a library. It was nearly sacred, that spot, with the dozens of bushes filled with birds and blueberries, too.

I asked the elderly man who owned the patch if he didn’t have to fight the birds for the berries. He just looked at me a bit strange and said, “There is enough blueberries for birds and us, too. And if there wasn’t, I would just plant more blueberry bushes.”

Abundance. That is an almost antiquated idea in this productivity driven, “I got mine, you fend for yourself” world we live in these days, but there is enough for all of us. And if for some reason there wasn’t, we should do what we can to make sure there is.

I like that. I like that a lot. Nearly as much as I like blueberries.

Here are five things I thought were beautiful.

  1. William Drumm is a wildlife photographer that does a lot of scuba work. That last link went to his Instagram account, but I really love this YouTube video of him interacting with a giant manta ray.  
  2. To be filed under the resolve of the human spirit: Dan Mancina is blind. And an extremely talented skateboarder. Check this out.
  3. Google Arts and Culture did a huge (massive, really) collection on Frida Kahlo, including her art, her sketches, articles about her… there is enough to get lost for days.
  4. I love a good moon photo, but also loved finding out just how hi-rez the originals from the 60’s really were. Also a link here to original (really, really huge) hi rez photos of the moon.
  5. Flyover video of the volcanos erupting in Hawaii last month. It is both terrifying and enthralling, all at the same time.

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Well, that is it for this week. I hope you have a great week, and that your life is filled with beautiful things. If you see something special, I hope you will let me know about it, and if one of my five I shared today struck you in a special way, I hope you will let me know about that, too.

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Take care of yourself, and each other. 

Hugh Hollowell

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