Cold sliced
peaches with
sugar in a
glass bowl. It is the sort of thing that is so simply and
blissfully pleasant that it makes
you feel like you have had an
epiphany. It
makes you think of all that is
unquestionably good in your life:
Moments as a
child at your grandparent's table, A
summer afternoon with your friends, The sweet
smell of her hair, and the way that
light refracts though the blown glass bottle on your window sill.
These are the
easy and quiet pleasures that drive us through life,
floating from one day to the next like
foolish children,
waiting for our bowl of
sliced peaches. Like the
flecks of gold in ore, these things give value to what
otherwise might just be
a big stupid rock. And that is my
meditation on
cold sliced peaches with sugar in a glass bowl.