We bought a box of apples from Kiyokawa Family Orchards several years ago. They were the best apples!
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
—
Louise Erdrich
from: The Painted Drum
Yesterday, Amanda over at
Kind Over Matter posted this quote from Louise Erdrich. I love it and am posting it here to share it with you. It's Friday and I have a lot of apples to taste.
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