Harvest Time

[naamah_darling]

Every year at about this time, my family would pile into the jeep and make a pilgrimage to Carmichael's Produce. In the barn, bushel baskets of potatoes, yams, and okra stood alongside whole tables full of seasonal fruit, mostly apples still dusty from the trees, and peaches, their smell drunkenly thick. A real cider press rolled out dark, cloudy

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[alchmst]

I know you know you're beautiful, but sometimes it really just needs to be said.

namaste.

[naamah_darling]

::hugs::

[silfrenbirce]

I have similar memories of my own, which at the age of 27 makes me feel much older because I feel myself reminiscing about the Olden Days the way that my Dad is wont to do. Sometimes I really do wonder whether all children of any generation will find themselves possessed of such treasured memories of youth when they have left childhood far behind, or if in this progressively technological world, where brightly lit gas stations and billboards overtake woods and farmland, there will be fewer and fewer childhoods with memories to treasure.

Maybe it's totally off-base. But sometimes I cannot help but feel that the more "advanced" and complicated that the world becomes, the more we lose our humanity, even as children. I look at my cousins, Jessica and Daniel, not terribly much younger than me (Jess is 15 and Daniel 11, I believe), and it occurs to me that there was less imagination and wide-eyed wonder at the world around them to be found in their eyes than when I was a child myself.

[eudaimon]

There was an artical about belly dancing in the TImes this morning, and it made me think of you and I was wondering if you might like it?

R

[eudaimon]

i could, of course, just transcribe it for you, but there are some gorgeous pictures which was why I was thinking you might actually like to have the article itself :d

[naamah_darling]

Awesome. Do you have a scanner?

[eudaimon]

I don't, I'd have to post it?

[ex_subverse169]

yay for fall....sounds like a wonderful, well needed day :)

huggles...:)

::chortles::

[swamp_dragon]

Hee hee hee. C'mon, you know I had to.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/swamp_dragon/27624.html