A battery is stored energy. Whether it be the batteries in our brains, our bodies, our cars, our torches or our phones, they give us the flexibility to travel away from the safety of home base. Or to have some independence at home when the bigger networks of energy go down.

But Batteries Leak. It’s a problem that we’ve never really solved. In theory if we’ve got some stored energy we can carry on in the confident knowledge that, should our access to direct energy disappear, we will be able to continue on with our journey or our task.

But eventually that battery is going to wear down. It may become unusable. And we need the resilience, the patience, the creativity, and the courage to find new energy, when our usual sources have run dry or are inaccessible.

Thankfully there are a lot of alternative sources of energy out there. Ones that we aren’t even yet aware of. But we won’t find them unless we look.

And we won’t look unless we realise the truth that batteries leak. We should be ready for that to happen.

*Yes, I went metaphor fishing again. What you make with this fish will involve finding a recipe to your personal taste.

**I think I just stuffed the first fish with another fish. You’re welcome! And my apologies if you don’t eat fish. Or batteries.