Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Mint



I had one scoop of mint chocolate chip ice cream today from this very fancy ice-cream store, and it tasted like mint and cream, like the mint that grew in the yard outside the house I lived in on Long Island when I was a really little girl. I can't smell mint like that and not be plunged back to hiding in boxwood hedges, the only sound a muffled cry from some playmate wondering where I am.

7 comments:

  1. Your foot in that shoe is a confection too.

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  2. I was thinking the same thing that Ms. Moon wrote.

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  3. Taste and smell can both plunge us back into the past, can't they? Shades of Proust!

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  4. Really well made things are always worth the money and the hype.

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  5. Ice cream sends me in to a reverie too. I hope we get to share some in person some day soon. Til then, I will go have a scoop in your honor. xooxox S

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  6. Your short reflections like this one are like perfect jewels catching the light.

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