Fruit

I had a funny conversation with my mentor's daughter, 11 yrs, last night. We were talking about our summer back home in BC and she mentioned how she missed the peaches and cherries!! I agreed with her, I love peaches as well, and then she went on to say that "This place sucks, we don't have any good fruit.." silence at the table...

Just for the information of the reader I will list the fruit growing here on her farm. Mangoes, lychees, papayas, macadamia nuts, oranges, tangelos, lemons, limes, grapefruits, avocados, bananas, rambutan, mangosteen, longons...

One of the main reasons, if not the main reason, that I live here is for the abundance of organic tropical fruit. It is so energizing to eat such healthy, nutritions food right off the tree. It gives us life and vitality to have so much abundance here.

We all immediately started laughing after her statement, and I just started trying to explain what I just wrote above to her. but what about...list of fruits, you have everything we love here right on your own property!!!

At 11 yrs old kids have a great way of pointing out the obvious...she said "but we have no peaches...and no cherries, and no apples." And it occured to me, that even though she does appreciate the fruit here, and I love the fruit at home, she just shows so simply how as humans we seem to want what we don't have. She has been eating this fruit since her childhood, and I the same vice versa. It's almost the "grass is always greener on the other side" syndrome.

In the end all parties involved agreed that fruit everywhere all over the world is such an amazing blessing. And that we should all appreciate how lucky we are to have such large amounts in our home province/island. Fresh organic fruit is so rewarding, and we all agreed, it is something that should never be taken for granted...

The first three fruits I ate when I arrived here...organic of course
Starfruit
Mac nuts
Bananas

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