{"id":559,"date":"2014-08-27T18:13:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T23:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=559"},"modified":"2014-08-27T18:32:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T23:32:43","slug":"pretty-tired-actually-but-tiny-plums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Pretty tired, actually, but TINY PLUMS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to have a post here called “Beware of People” about generalities that give me hives, about generalizing what People Want and Readers Expect and Editors Demand and how this is really not a good reason to do things in a manuscript, like, ever. (“So-and-so wants this and it really works in this story<\/em>” can be a great reason. That’s an important difference.)<\/p>\n

I’m really tired, though, and it just wasn’t congealing. And so instead, hey, I went to the farmer’s market and came back with something like my body weight in produce. Every week I forget something on the list and get two or three more things that weren’t on the list because I didn’t know they’d come into season yet. This time I forgot the corn (oops–corn stand time maybe) and got golden raspberries, pears, and tiny plums (TINY PLUMS) that I didn’t know would be there. (TINY PLUMS YOU GUYS YOU GUYS YOU GUYS TINY PLUMS.)<\/p>\n

So here is the thing about tiny plums: this year has been pretty rough for food for me, due to the vertigo and related meds. And tiny plums do not require a commitment. Four bites and you’re done, that’s all the plum there is. No preparation, and no feeling that, ugh, what if I start eating the plum and my body says HAHAHA NO NO MORE FOOD FOREVER? It will not matter. Because there is hardly any plum there to waste. It’s almost like deciding to eat a single strawberry. Except that it is an entire plum! It is a self-contained plum-based experience! What if it’s sour and not that great? You can have another one! Because they are tiny!<\/p>\n

Boy, when they say sometimes it’s the little things, they really mean plums. I never knew that before.<\/p>\n

I always think, “Maybe this time I will make the Hungarian plum dumplings out of them, with the potato dough and like that!” And then I laugh and say, “Maybe!” And then I eat another one and don’t. Because plenty of things take cooking. Long beans take cooking, and the round green eggplants, and you don’t have to cook the carrots but a lot of the things I put them in are cooking, and the salsa I make for Mark with his garden jalapenos and tomatoes takes cooking, and…yeah. There is no shortage of cooking. But the tiny plums can just be eaten, and that is really, really okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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