Hi there Frank,

Thank you very much, but I must confess...I borrowed a dearfriends Aunt,
as her name is much homier than Blanche! lol

Glad you liked it. :)

Good Cheer, Be Well & Happy New Year!
Mary :O)

--- Frank Faust <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Maryann,
>
> authenticity comes through in this - it has almost an oral-history feel
> to
> it. I think it works pretty well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank
>
> >Carrots
> >
> >
> >Certainly we were wanting. There was a lunch-lady who
> >      could tell how hungry you were by your eyes
> >and the way you couldn't ask for more but she gave
> >
> >      you extra rice without the slightest hesitation. At home
> >our closet of a kitchen never knew the smell of freshly
> >      peeled oranges or heard the snap of a pea pod. We only read
> >
> >about peaches and pears in math books; so many and so many
> >      make so many. But apples came from the ground
> >each autumn in Old Vandyke's orchard. He didn't
> >
> >      begrudge the deer and us any "dropsy's." Certainly we ate
> >till we were sick. The first time we were given a fresh vegetable
> >      was at a distant relative's house. My father didn't want to go.
> >
> >We sat at a table covered with white cloth. There were no pots
> >      set out, but bowls of food. There were napkins. I was afraid
> >to take my hands from my lap. Aunt Ora passed a bowl to me.
> >
> >      Perfectly stacked orange sticks, glazed in real butter,
> >speckled with brown bits of exotic nutmeg. They shone in the light
> >      of the lamps. And Aunt Ora said, Let me help you. Do you like
> >
> >carrots? Certainly I liked carrots. She spooned the glistening
> >      vegetable onto my plate. Yes, of course there was more food
> >than that, but to this day all I remember is that here
> >
> >      was something not from a can. Neither mushy nor tasteless.
> >Bright orange fingerlings grown in the freshness of the earth.
> >      The books were right, after all.
> >
> >~*~
> >
> >Yes, I admit it...I'm out of practice...lol
> >
> >Cheerwell, Mary :O)
> >
> >
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> >Maryann Hazen-Stearns
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