Eat your cherries!

I am just loving Barbara Kingsolver's book right now. It's a bit uncanny how how much our thinking is aligned around gardening/farming/eating. I love her stories of plant starts everywhere, seed catalog browsing in January, getting kids to try new vegetables, etc. It makes me want to invite her over for tea and a tour of the garden.

Here is a snippet that I just love, maybe because as a Catholic we are taught to deny ourselves the things we long for/lust (oh, lust is a sin all on its own, no?). So the mantra to eat cherries sounds very good to my ears.

“In Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel, Zorba the Greek, the pallid narrator frets a lot about his weaknesses of the flesh. He lies awake at night worrying about the infinite varieties of lust that call to him from this world; for example, cherries. He’s way too fond of cherries. Zorba tells him, Well then, I’m afraid what you must do is stand under the tree, collect as big a bowl full, and stuff yourself. Eat cherries like they’re going out of season.”