Tiny, Rogue Strawberries - By T.B.D.

“That tree was the great teacher of the last two decades of her life,” her former student Mickey Myers said. “She learned from that tree. The beauty it produced in spring was only because of what it went through during the winter, and sometimes the harshest winters yielded the most glorious springs.”

And I never did look back, for better or worse. If funding for a project ran out, or the area we studied was suddenly bought for development, I never returned. There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to relive, certain kinds of connections so deep that when they are broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.

“Plants cannot escape problems,” I answer, “so we must solve them.”

Strawberries first shaped my view of a world full of gifts simply scattered at your feet.

plants are willful and crafty and after something, just like people.