This morning I crossed paths with a woman at the dog park who I recall meeting last year right around this same time. Last year she asked if she could add me to her prayer list. I said, “Yes, please do.”
Today I thanked her and told her I am cured. She took my hands in hers and said a little prayer. It felt… nice.
Realizing digital images have a long service life, are the red, tart (?) cherries freshly picked?
As a child, about a week after school was out, a family outing to Northeast, PA occurred. To pick cherries!! So we, the monkey brothers, (older bro and I), scrambled up ten foot tall wooden step ladders. The ladder industry didn’t waste paint writing “DO NOT STAND ON OR ABOVE THIS STEP!”
We were informed that this was not a “pick and eat” orchard! We did. We were not informed that DDT was a highly effective insecticide. The bald eagles were mum on that topic. 🤔
We picked black sweet; red sweet; and red tart cherries. The next day was the pits!😬 Most were frozen for latter. Some became cherry preserves. And, lucky us, some red tart ones became a cherry pie!!
The top of today’s love letter is a snap of store bough Bing cherries.
The link to the 2017 Medium article featured tart Montmorency cherries from a tree in our yard. The tree died a few years ago. Now I purchase frozen, pitted tart cherries from the grocery. Works for me!
I used to order organic Montmorency dried cherries on Amazon. I used some to make homemade Rx Bars. Others drowned in my cereal on a regular basis. 🙂 As the cost rose I tried organic cherries from Turkey. A bit smaller but also tasty! And less expensive.
Yes when practicable. EWG, Environmental Working Group, publishes annually “The Dirty Dozen.” These are fruits and vegetables with the highest concentration of pesticides and herbicides, identified as potential or known health concerns by the FDA. This year, they added The Clean Fifteen, not organic but with many fewer residues.
I won’t spoil your day with any from the dirty dozen. 😔
I’ve always been curious about cross-contamination when organic crops and non-organic crops grow with in proximity? Is the world a closed system? Via condensation, evaporation, and precipitation… Does everything spread everywhere?
And I’m still wondering… if humans are a part of nature, organic creatures in a natural system, how do we create something that is not organic?
Aerial crop dusting fits that concern perfectly. And here’s a twist: when DOW began selling GMO corn seed, pollen from that corn would drift into adjacent fields. Not just organic, any non-GMO cornfields. DOW sent their representatives to such adjacent farms, demanding access to the fields. If GMO corn was identified DOW took legal action against the farmers who could not afford a legal battle with DOW. Some went bankrupt. Others borrowed to pay DOW’s demands!
As for non-organic items. Synthesized (better living through chemistry -DuPont slogan) chemicals, not naturally occurring, are everywhere now. Some are estrogen mimickers which disrupt body systems, some are “forever chemicals” which accumulate mostly in body fat, posing multiple threats to wellness. Some, also inorganic, are the myriad of products that appear in The Dirty Dozen.
Hermaphroditic Gus appear in the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay, attributable to inorganic compounds. Psych medicines are in many bodies of water from which municipalities draw drinking water. Yes, we use a water filter system.
This morning I crossed paths with a woman at the dog park who I recall meeting last year right around this same time. Last year she asked if she could add me to her prayer list. I said, “Yes, please do.”
Today I thanked her and told her I am cured. She took my hands in hers and said a little prayer. It felt… nice.
Cured.
I'm going to let that word linger because it makes me so happy.
Thank you Karen. There's a paragraph in Book 4 that touches on my hesitancy to say it our loud. 🤷🏻♀️
I love this! 🙏🏼🕊️🙏🏼
Cooo-neckk-shun! 🤷🏽😁
❤️ Tal might have gone for caaaaaaaah-nec-shun! 😂 She has a Wisconsin accent.
“A wiggle and a walk and a giggle and a talk”. Jerry Lee Lewis 😉
Realizing digital images have a long service life, are the red, tart (?) cherries freshly picked?
As a child, about a week after school was out, a family outing to Northeast, PA occurred. To pick cherries!! So we, the monkey brothers, (older bro and I), scrambled up ten foot tall wooden step ladders. The ladder industry didn’t waste paint writing “DO NOT STAND ON OR ABOVE THIS STEP!”
We were informed that this was not a “pick and eat” orchard! We did. We were not informed that DDT was a highly effective insecticide. The bald eagles were mum on that topic. 🤔
We picked black sweet; red sweet; and red tart cherries. The next day was the pits!😬 Most were frozen for latter. Some became cherry preserves. And, lucky us, some red tart ones became a cherry pie!!
“Thanks for the memories ...”
Bob Hope & Shirley Ross
The top of today’s love letter is a snap of store bough Bing cherries.
The link to the 2017 Medium article featured tart Montmorency cherries from a tree in our yard. The tree died a few years ago. Now I purchase frozen, pitted tart cherries from the grocery. Works for me!
I used to order organic Montmorency dried cherries on Amazon. I used some to make homemade Rx Bars. Others drowned in my cereal on a regular basis. 🙂 As the cost rose I tried organic cherries from Turkey. A bit smaller but also tasty! And less expensive.
Are you an "organic" eater Gary?
Yes when practicable. EWG, Environmental Working Group, publishes annually “The Dirty Dozen.” These are fruits and vegetables with the highest concentration of pesticides and herbicides, identified as potential or known health concerns by the FDA. This year, they added The Clean Fifteen, not organic but with many fewer residues.
I won’t spoil your day with any from the dirty dozen. 😔
I’ve always been curious about cross-contamination when organic crops and non-organic crops grow with in proximity? Is the world a closed system? Via condensation, evaporation, and precipitation… Does everything spread everywhere?
And I’m still wondering… if humans are a part of nature, organic creatures in a natural system, how do we create something that is not organic?
Head scratchers for sure!
Aerial crop dusting fits that concern perfectly. And here’s a twist: when DOW began selling GMO corn seed, pollen from that corn would drift into adjacent fields. Not just organic, any non-GMO cornfields. DOW sent their representatives to such adjacent farms, demanding access to the fields. If GMO corn was identified DOW took legal action against the farmers who could not afford a legal battle with DOW. Some went bankrupt. Others borrowed to pay DOW’s demands!
As for non-organic items. Synthesized (better living through chemistry -DuPont slogan) chemicals, not naturally occurring, are everywhere now. Some are estrogen mimickers which disrupt body systems, some are “forever chemicals” which accumulate mostly in body fat, posing multiple threats to wellness. Some, also inorganic, are the myriad of products that appear in The Dirty Dozen.
Hermaphroditic Gus appear in the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay, attributable to inorganic compounds. Psych medicines are in many bodies of water from which municipalities draw drinking water. Yes, we use a water filter system.
SMH