The yum is worth the ouch!

The briefing

A columnist picking wild blackberries without a long-sleeved shirt ends up scratched and bleeding, then forgets the pain entirely over a warm slice of his wife's blackberry pie. The experience prompts a reflection on how pain and pleasure, sadness and joy coexist, drawing on Allen Levi's novel "Theo of Golden." He distinguishes happiness, which depends on something good happening, from joy, an inner contentment that persists through hardship.