Hi I love how watermelon takes you to your safe place. I started EMDR 4 years ago and only had 4 sessions before my insurance quit paying. You reminded me ! Especially right now because I've had one poop summer and I can't seem to get a breath here! Thank you.
I"m sorry to hear about your poopy summer. I hope you can breathe soon! INSURANCE SUCKS. Mine doesn't cover EMDR anymore either and I definitely can't afford it, but I keep showing up anyway. I'm sending beautiful wishes and hopes for the rest of your August!
Loved everything about this post! I love watermelons and could never figure out why. This captures it so much for me, plus the joy of my little one playing in the paddling pool. Thank you!
1. You can sprinkle a little bit of salt on a piece of watermelon, and I think it totally changes the flavor and makes it a new (even more hydrating!!) snack
2. You can cut the top off a watermelon, a la a jack o lantern. Then you can scoop out the tasty pink stuff with a spoon, and drink from the watermelon itself when a bunch of juice gathers. This is an excellent activity to do with friends, and I did it for a friend's birthday at the end of May and it was TRULY delightful. Doesn't require much other than a spoon and a fork and a knife big enough to cut a lil watermelon hole - just enough friends to eat a watermelon. In my experience: around 5-6 hungry people for 1 sitting, or fewer people and more sittings.
When I was a little kid, my grandparents lived in a rural town where some of the farmers grew lots of watermelons. The fruit stand/farmer supply store/gas station would tell the customers when Watermelon Day was coming. A few lucky years I was there on Watermelon Day.
It was the day that farmers brought in their crops of watermelons to the stand to sell some, but mostly to be so glad to have harvested all those melons. There were truckloads piled so impossibly high with watermelons. Daring people in overalls would climb up the watermelon piles and toss down melons to anyone that wanted to catch one. If you missed, no one cared, there were so many more watermelons.
The smell of ripe, just burst open melon and the sticky sweetness on my face as I ate sun warmed bites was just perfect.
I voted neutral but really I mean ambivalent. My main issue with watermelon isn’t watermelon’s fault at all. It’s a modern day convenience gripe. It’s a mom at the grocery store denying her children joy gripe. Because when my kids see watermelon- with its promise of long hot days and cook outs and the frenzied free for all of running around with a pack of children up past their bedtimes on a warm summer night while the adults are absorbed in adult talk- when they see watermelon at the store in March, for example, and I, crusher of joy that I am, tell them no we can’t buy it yet, that it’s not in season, it’s expensive, and it won’t taste that good- deep down I know what’s bothering me is the self imposed struggle of trying to at least sorta stay attuned with the natural world while tied to a system cut off from seasonal relevance.. but it’s easier to blame the out of context existence of watermelon.
Oh, this is such a beautiful and heartbreaking point. Thanks for including it here. My child doesn’t talk yet, but I imagine that will complicate, for better and for worse, my experience of joy.
This post made me cry really good, happy tears. Thank you!! I’m going to the farmers market right now and I’m buying a watermelon! Also, today is my birthday...so todays watermelon will be my birthday “cake” 😁🎂
Such a wonderful read! 🍉
Thank you for giving it your time!
Hi I love how watermelon takes you to your safe place. I started EMDR 4 years ago and only had 4 sessions before my insurance quit paying. You reminded me ! Especially right now because I've had one poop summer and I can't seem to get a breath here! Thank you.
I"m sorry to hear about your poopy summer. I hope you can breathe soon! INSURANCE SUCKS. Mine doesn't cover EMDR anymore either and I definitely can't afford it, but I keep showing up anyway. I'm sending beautiful wishes and hopes for the rest of your August!
Loved everything about this post! I love watermelons and could never figure out why. This captures it so much for me, plus the joy of my little one playing in the paddling pool. Thank you!
Thank you so much! I love the term "paddling pool." Thank you for introducing it to me!
Also only just heard of EDMR and keen to know more!
2 watermelon things:
1. You can sprinkle a little bit of salt on a piece of watermelon, and I think it totally changes the flavor and makes it a new (even more hydrating!!) snack
2. You can cut the top off a watermelon, a la a jack o lantern. Then you can scoop out the tasty pink stuff with a spoon, and drink from the watermelon itself when a bunch of juice gathers. This is an excellent activity to do with friends, and I did it for a friend's birthday at the end of May and it was TRULY delightful. Doesn't require much other than a spoon and a fork and a knife big enough to cut a lil watermelon hole - just enough friends to eat a watermelon. In my experience: around 5-6 hungry people for 1 sitting, or fewer people and more sittings.
THIS IS SO AMAZING, I am including it in my Friday newsletter. Thank you for this amazing expertise!
When I was a little kid, my grandparents lived in a rural town where some of the farmers grew lots of watermelons. The fruit stand/farmer supply store/gas station would tell the customers when Watermelon Day was coming. A few lucky years I was there on Watermelon Day.
It was the day that farmers brought in their crops of watermelons to the stand to sell some, but mostly to be so glad to have harvested all those melons. There were truckloads piled so impossibly high with watermelons. Daring people in overalls would climb up the watermelon piles and toss down melons to anyone that wanted to catch one. If you missed, no one cared, there were so many more watermelons.
The smell of ripe, just burst open melon and the sticky sweetness on my face as I ate sun warmed bites was just perfect.
THIS IS AMAZING!!!! I will need to share this in a screenshot to my Friday newsletter because it is such a great little piece of flash writing!
You had me at “watermelon.” ♥️ Delightful newsletter!
Thank you!
I voted neutral but really I mean ambivalent. My main issue with watermelon isn’t watermelon’s fault at all. It’s a modern day convenience gripe. It’s a mom at the grocery store denying her children joy gripe. Because when my kids see watermelon- with its promise of long hot days and cook outs and the frenzied free for all of running around with a pack of children up past their bedtimes on a warm summer night while the adults are absorbed in adult talk- when they see watermelon at the store in March, for example, and I, crusher of joy that I am, tell them no we can’t buy it yet, that it’s not in season, it’s expensive, and it won’t taste that good- deep down I know what’s bothering me is the self imposed struggle of trying to at least sorta stay attuned with the natural world while tied to a system cut off from seasonal relevance.. but it’s easier to blame the out of context existence of watermelon.
Oh, this is such a beautiful and heartbreaking point. Thanks for including it here. My child doesn’t talk yet, but I imagine that will complicate, for better and for worse, my experience of joy.
This post made me cry really good, happy tears. Thank you!! I’m going to the farmers market right now and I’m buying a watermelon! Also, today is my birthday...so todays watermelon will be my birthday “cake” 😁🎂