So here we are, at Lammas already. The first harvest. It is the time when the boughs are heavy with the first fruits. As the first time we get to collect the fruits of our labor, we often hear the phrase “go after the low-hanging fruit.” And it is apropos to this moment.
It’s important to understand all the things that phrase entails — low-hanging fruit — and why it matters so much. We all know how the phrase is used colloquially. Low-hanging fruit is easy. It hangs where you don’t need to work hard to retrieve it. We typically use that expression to talk about things that we should accomplish first because they are easy, and do not require as much effort.
Low-hanging fruit is heavy with possibility. It is fully ripe, and it is important to go after it not just because it is easy to harvest. It is important to go after it because if you leave it too long, it will drop from the tree and become unusable. If you do not collect the low-hanging fruit when it presents itself, if you miss that moment, you might lose the opportunity altogether.
It’s hard to grapple with the fact that the world is still very much in the grip of COVID-19, even as we come to the first harvest Sabbat. Most of us are struggling with all the moments over this past season that we have missed. Moments we wanted with friends and loved ones. Moments we wanted for our…
