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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460410" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0011 Scrubbing Carrots</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every Friday, a happy smiling man<br>who says he’s a mixture of Spain, Trinidad and England<br>delivers a bag of organic vegetables<br>and a bag of organic fruit, and<br>it’s a bit like a child’s Christmas bran-tub adventure –<br>some strange vegetables I’ve never seen before<br>and would never have dared to buy; <br>or eat, if I found them growing in the garden…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but it’s worth it for the carrots alone –<br>they taste, well, OK, like carrots used to taste..<br>and each week, they come from a different grower, so<br>they arrive clean and smooth one week, <br>clotted with earth another, but <br>as Rilke might say, rich with carrot-ness..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I clean them with a respect which they<br>and the sheer living greenness of the greens<br>and other vegetables naturally demand of me<br>so that vegetable-cleaning<br>which used to be a chore done with attention<br>only at half strength, is now something more -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in this mood, almost overlooked small great miracles of life<br>just happen of themselves –<br>two weeks ago, I watched amazed<br>as my two hands of themselves<br>devised a new way of cleaning carrots –<br>the hands reversed their roles: left hand<br>now held the scouring pad, diagonally, <br>and the right hand spiralled the carrot<br>in the pad… and lo! those etched horizontal lines<br>of dirt were perfectly removed..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the isness of the carrot<br>and the isness of its servant<br>were together one silent song<br>where, it seemed, <br>the forgotten met the remembered<br>and rejoiced.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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