Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It’ll be spring soon, and the orchards will be in blossom; and the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket; and they’ll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields; and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?
Frodo weakly replies that he can’t, but Sam’s recollection of the Shire’s goodness and beauty gives him new determination, and he puts Frodo on his back and begins once more to climb the steep slope.
https://christandpopculture.com/taste-strawberries-tolkiens-imagination-good/
This was one of my favorite series growing up...I read it to the kids for home schooling...this just makes me want to revisit the story...we get waylaid with so much of life...we forget the truth and adventure that we found in good literature. I spend time on GAW reading news when I could be on a great adventure. I miss that I was such a prolific reader of good fiction/nonfiction...and this article just whets my appetite to remember the taste of "strawberries". Thank you so much for posting...this professor is a very articulate writer....
i'm glad you liked it.
I just walked in the other room and out of the blue my daughter was talking about strawberries and raspberries.
You are me. I read on my phone now, but only GAW, Twitter, and some other sites. Looking for clues, waiting for the dam to break in earnest.
I have a growing pile of books that I want to read but that I never open. I was also a prolific reader but I think I now have a form of low anxiety where I need to know what is happening and I have FOMO. Thus, I stay on my phone instead of cracking open a book…
My pile of books has overtaken my house...I have 10 bookcases loaded and books everywhere...many are read but some aren't. I don't keep too much fiction because I never read fiction twice. I also read the ending of all my mystery stories at the beginning and I still enjoy the unraveling of the mystery. I love the feel of a book...and I Iike the look of books in a house...
The greatest gift in my life next to music is reading...our library was a short walk from my house as a kid...
Yeah...am waiting for something to happen...maybe it will be the Second Coming of Christ and we will all be gloriously surprised....I mean that in all seriousness and with great anticipation...
maybe we should start a book club so we can get back into reading actual books...I love book clubs!!
I never stopped. We SHOULD have a book club.
In unrelated news I always have imagined that heaven was or contains a huge perfect library that housed ALL the answers. Where did the Bermuda Triangle planes and boats go? Math - all answers. Why people did what they did.
Wonderful thoughts...books are the best of friends...