How We Carry the Weight of It by Will McMillan
![Image shows six cartons of fresh red raspberries from above on a wooden table; title card for the new creative nonfiction essay, "How We Carry the Weight of It," by Will McMillan.](https://craftliterary.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ashim-d-silva-vIje66HsIcU-unsplash-300x200.jpg)
We arrive in the raspberry fields when it’s dark. It’s dark when we pile out of our secondhand pickup. My father, my mother. My brother and me. It’s dark when we start walking the rutted, sopping dirt road that…