Healing
Why would anyone take the time and trouble to write about eating some blueberries, you wonder. Well, you see, I live in the midwest. Kansas City to be exact. Smack dab in the middle of the United States.
Having been born in Vietnam and being a travel writer, I am a displaced beach bum. Truly displaced! I could not be any farther from the coast than I am now. My every spare moment is spent on planning another trip to the beach, to a place of warmer climate, and fresher fruits.
It is now the heart of winter in Missouri. To find fresh fruit even in the summer is a challenge. Because of all the shipping and processing, fresh here is not the same as it is in southern areas. Having savored the fruits of the island, nothing else compares.
My island blues were magnified since arriving home from Cozumel about two weeks ago. Every time I travel, I come back a little more depressed about living in the midwest. I spent the past two weeks pouring through my vacation photos and daydreaming of how life would be elsewhere. My poor husband and children have done all they can to help me ease back into reality.
Walking through the snow, fighting back the wind, and going through the motions, I opened the door to let my son in the restaurant. We were spending some mother/son time. Dutifully, I paid for the buffet and reached for the styrofoam plate. All-you-can-eat buffets, plasticware, and people dressed in overstuffed winter wear. Typical midwesterners living their midwest ways. Ho hum, life has got to get better, I mumbled to myself.
Suddenly, before my eyes I caught a glimpse of large, juicy blueberries! It was as if I was in the plane again, looking down on my white island which was gleaming in the turquoise water. I could hardly wait to land on the island that was my retreat from the midwest. Glistening blueberries amidst a mountain of mayonnaise-laden salads. My retreat from the depression and monotony of midwestern winter food.
The blueberries tasted of summer time. For a few minutes, I was transported to a world of longer daylight and glorious sunsets. My sadness and boredom lifted.
In the middle of winter, at the center of the United States, admist all that is midwestern and boring to me, my depression was lifted for I had blueberries today.
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