I just felt like eating a blueberry dish that can make me forget all troubles and experience feeling very happy and alive in the moment.
I believe this happened after I skimmed a sentence:
"After lunch, I went to see Zaza in the rue de Berri. She was wearing a new dress in blue voile with a black and white all-over pattern and a huge straw sun-bonnet: how she had blossomed out since the beginning of the summer!"
Page 330 of "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" by Simone Beauvoir
I'm imagining something that's like a blueberry version of strawberry shortcake, but everything is really top quality ingredients. The blueberries are top quality. Whatever is going on with the whipped cream and the "shortcake," too. I imagine something like a biscuit or a pastry that's not too sweet but it's a pleasing texture and this phenomenal blueberry dessert makes you feel like you're outside in a beautiful rural area, enjoying the sun, at one with nature, and the temperature is perfect and you're just very content in the moment and feeling completely happy.
That kind of happened with some gelato I ate in Virginia once. Everything else was wiped out. I was fully absorbed in the taste and the texture of the gelato. I felt like I was sinking into some kind of velvety luxury, and the space around me was changing just because of the experience with this gelato.
I was going to go back to that place and get more gelato, but I moved away and now maybe that place is not even there anymore. Maybe my brain was just really primed to eat that particular flavor of gelato that day for some reason. Maybe it had nutrients in it that I was desperately craving. Maybe it was balancing my hormones. I don't know. It was extremely good gelato though.
Also, would it have been more beneficial to meet this song (which has been kind of going around in my head off and on, and I do enjoy it, I guess) when I was a younger person? I'm not too sure.
'We Are What You Say" ~ S.S.
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