Sunday, January 29, 2006

from an ad for The Sun Magazine

Strawberries are too delicate to be picked by machine. The perfectly ripe ones even bruise at too heavy a human touch. It hit her then that every strawberry she had ever eaten--every piece of fruit--had been picked by calloused human hands. Every piece of toast with jelly represented someone's knees, someone's aching back and hips, someone with a bandanna on her wrist to wipe away the sweat. Why had no one told her about this before?

Alison Luterman, "What They Came For"

3 Comments:

  • you should read, In the Strawberry Fields, by Eric Schlosser. It is the second part of his book Reefer Madness. It's good. It's sad. It's scary. It's heartbreaking.

    By Blogger KyleDel, at 9:17 AM  

  • put it on my list. ;) though, i dunno. my life is good and sad and scary and heartbreaking already...

    By Blogger KTB, at 10:18 PM  

  • I like strawberry wine...

    ask Karen this week about her only having one bathroom in the house. it caused an emeregency.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:52 PM  

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