during my epic walk to walmart yesterday i thought back to the time when i first arrived in texas. i was a child perhaps 7-8 years old and used to walk home from school every day. i can't remember which city we lived in, i'm thinking it was abilene. i do remember that the path i walked brought me to a honeysuckle bush. we used to pull the stems from the flowers and suck on the sweet nectar. the smell and taste was so incredible! as i walked along the sidewalk i would pass peach trees growing in people's yards. we would try and steal some if they were low enough for us to reach.
when i was in thailand at the age of 8-9, i would walk around with a group of boys among the jungle area and see banana's growing wild and abundant. we would play hide and seek and eat banana's if they were ripe enough to be picked. my grandfather had a huge pistol and sometimes would go out and practice shooting at the coconuts on the trees. the noise was so deafening and i remember closing my eyes and ears in fright.
flashback to 2 years ago when i lived in california and used to have to walk everywhere. many of the houses had lemon trees growing in the front yards. there were lemons everywhere. i felt the child in me come out again as i reached and stold some lemons as i go walking past. those were such happy times which seems so long ago. how i miss those carefree years...
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