Memory Preserves

“Visit a fruit farm and then head to the kitchen with your mounded baskets to capture fragrant summer in numerous jars: the preparation for dark days must always begin during the brightest ones.”
― Lia Leendertz, Gardening and food writer in the UK

This quote makes me think of the sacredness of preparation, especially when we know hard times are coming. People’s lives used to depend on preserving food for winter. Now it would do us well to preserve memories of joy in the root cellars of our hearts to take out and open when our lives get cold and wearying.