ate my first blackberries of 2023 today. this is always a marker of my progress through the year, like a solstice, and boy has this year been wild. virtually everything in my life has changed.

but the blackberries are still there, tasty and free, growing in places where people aren't able or, more likely, don't care enough to tear them out. eat some. maybe they bioaccumulate the nasty shit in the soil, maybe not. none of us lives forever