Bushes, brambles, and them things that inspired Velcro.

Toy Story clouds!! :)

Today I was out walking with the dog and decided to do some trail blazing through the bush. Now the regularity of sleep has become somewhat of a novelty these days and the few hours I did sack in last night were interrupted by a few feline/canine games of chase. So needless to say I wasn't exactly functioning at peak "bushwhacking"capacity. So after walking headlong into a few branches I stopped to let my spinning eyes catch up and noticed a clump of burrs hitching a ride on my jacket and began picking them off, "hmm yep, no wonder these inspired Velcro*".

As I continued picking, I started thinking(rhyme alert!)...we really need to watch out for these little guys when we are "walking through" life too. Thorns either completely over power us or allow us to escape with just our wounds and usually some scars to remember them by...but these guys hang on and, if we're not careful, will continue building up into a great big mess if we aren't diligent to do the pick work(if you have ever picked burrs out of a horses mane...you'll really get this!!). It is not the giant leap that claims the most victims but the constant compromise of footing that causes the most to fall. This idea fits in nicely with our parshah this week too actually With each generation man became more and more corrupt until ultimately they we're so utterly consumed in their evil HaShem had to do de-burr the earth! Yes they we're so far gone they we're walking burrs!! Picture that! :P

So the next time we have to pick a burr or hitchhiker off our sweater or shoelace(or dog Oy vey!...glad mines a Shorthair!!) maybe we can also remember to do a quick scan of our life too just to be sure we haven't been procrastinating our picking.

*George de Mestral was inspired by the creative design of the burr in 1948 and "Velcro" was patented in 1955.