Heroes Not Zombies

As I walked along the banks of the Charente recently I saw these berries catching the sun.

As ever, I’m caught by the sheer beauty of the image, but it also sets my thoughts off on two different, related tracks.

Berries are full of potential. They contain the seeds of life itself. This is how this plant, this species, creates its future, offering these berries as gifts for other creatures to eat, to digest, to carry elsewhere. This plant can’t walk or run, but it isn’t confined to this one little space on Earth. This plant lives in a bigger world than the few square metres where it has its roots, not least by creating berries. By creating berries and offering them freely it not only adds to the Universe, but adds to the lives of other creatures too.

We’ve no way of knowing where each of these individual berries will end up. We can’t tell their story forwards, other than by using our imaginations. But we know they are full of potential.

The other track my thoughts go down when seeing this image is the one of diversity and difference. No two of these berries are identical. I love the variety of colours, shapes, and size in this little group. How that is magnified on the World scale!

Nature loves diversity……the unique expression of individual life in every organism, every circumstance and every event.

So, this little image says a lot to me – about beauty, Life, growth, potential, connections, relationships, uncertainty, unpredictability, difference, diversity, creativity, expression, and……..[add your own thoughts here]