Hello\u00a0 February\u2014proof that the year is well on it\u2019s journey and I should be too. I should be all done with all the good things I should be accomplishing this year right?<\/p>\n
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This healthy eating sites now, they not only nag me to eat pyramid-style, but they have a thing: 5 a day! Eat five fruit and vegetables a day!<\/p>\n
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I am good friends with vegetables. I can deal with a vegetable. I will buy and eat them, canned frozen or fresh. If I buy too much fresh broccoli, as I have done once or twice when it was on sale, I will do my best to eat it. But if I can\u2019t, out it goes. Wilted broccoli can go out with the trash and I can live with myself.<\/p>\n
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But the fruit\u2026fruit is complicated.<\/p>\n
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Fruit is delicious and beautiful. It look and smells and tastes so voluptuous. It came from flowers, and that gorgeousness lives on.<\/p>\n
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Every year during peach season I am jerked up on a line passing the display in the store. That smell! I will stop and gently squeeze a few to make my selection. I will take the bag home and arrange them. Not the fridge for these beauties. I want to see them and have the fragrance waft.<\/p>\n
But I often will not eat them. Because they are too beautiful. They should be approached at just the right time. And I falter. <\/span><\/p>\n Do I dare to eat a peach?<\/a><\/p>\n Sometimes. And sometimes I hang back and they rot. I am sad about that. I feel guilty. Fruit is so fragile. Strawberries, melons, peaches and cherries.<\/p>\n The more accessible fruits we know. Bananas, requiring violent tearing of the peel. As a fruit they are very bland, and their mortality is very advertised. It is quick and blaring. Spot! SPOTS! NOW! EAT ME! HURRY!!<\/strong> So we do.<\/p>\n Apples are so tough, juicy wood-fruit of the tree they come from. They slice and snap. Also friendly. Cooked and juiced, apples are homey.<\/p>\n Oranges come in a kit, in a self-protecting wrapper that keeps them safe for so long. They can be tossed around a room in a game and be eaten with pleasure. Remove packaging, disassemble and share.<\/p>\n Of course these are the popular fruits.<\/p>\n But many fruits are fecund females that demand to be respected. And berries!<\/p>\n These pregnant keepers of past and future know that ritual and ceremony surround their gathering and consumption. Strawberries are everywhere, but I have learned when I travel to look at the jam section of the grocery store. There will be jam of berries I have never known. <\/span><\/p>\n In our world of homogeneity, what a luxury to find an undiscovered flavor!<\/p>\n The ephemeral ones, the hard to capture, the soft eureka lemon, the wild blackberry and the just-ripe peach are what I should fill my life with.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I have to find more courage and stop being intimidated by my fruit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello\u00a0 February\u2014proof that the year is well on it\u2019s journey and I should be too. I should be all done with all the good things I should be accomplishing this year right? Well. This healthy eating sites now, … Continue reading