Turning over leaves

My daughter Sara, at Hamline, has a class on parables and we talked about this classic .

Buddha told a parable in a sutra:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above.
Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine held him.
Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

Yesterday on her blog she wrote of how she was treasuring the color of the autumn leaves. She has been finding leaves that are face down, and reaching to turn them over, so they could face color side up, for her and others to see.
I believe she is following the wisdom of the parable. Enjoy the strawberry. While she goes through the stress and "danglings" and changes of being away from home, starting college, and missing the quieter setting of tree filled Brainerd, she is also enjoying and being aware of the daily gifts, and the surprises and views that may be simply turned from our view at the moment.
Don't forget to turn over a fallen leaf, color side up. See it . Enjoy it.