Fish, Mangoes, Coconuts and Pineapple

Please don’t eat them!!!!

Not that they are poisonous, but…

Let’s start with Fish.

2 days ago, I had hands on experience in cleaning fish. My goodness, it’s so gross. Had to cut the fins, open the gills, dig out the intestines which continue little fishes, and all the ‘stuff’ in the stomach. My hands were smelly and bloody. Was telling myself, if I knew it’s so much of work cleaning a fish, I wouldn’t want to eat it anymore.

Mangoes….my favourite! Your favourite too?

There few days, we have been harvesting many mangoes from another house. We do have mango tree too, but not ripe yet. Anyway, even it’s ripe, we have to share it with many ‘friends’. Well… I never had such a hard time eating mango in my life. Smell good, look good, but what’s inside, you do not know. I never ever had such a hard time eating mango. Now, before taking one, I had to meditate on it, pat it and put on a winked face before cutting open. These ‘friends’ hides only in the sweet mangoes. Sounds like us. We hide our ugliness in our sweetest looks. Anyway, ‘friends’ are my wormy brother and sisters too… ai yo… too much trouble to eat…. Better don’t eat.

Now…Coconuts

Nearly had to climb up to pluck the them, but thank goodness, with the help of 2 guys on the streets, they plucked down for us. If you know why we always say the words ‘coconut head’, you will know that coconut are very hard. I was happy to be given an opportunity to try chopping it open, but I didn’t manage to. A sister more then twice my age had to help me. It’s really hard work, lots of strength and skill needed. Now I could imagine coconut sellers having to chop so many daily, must be really tired. So think twice before drinking coconut.

Oh yes… Pineapple too… my goodness… if you ever cut open a pineapple, you will know what I meant… I rather buy a slice from the fruit stall.

In conclusion….. looks like Angeline is going on a diet, since it so hard to clean fish, chicken ….cook…. better live on rain and sunshine. Well, if you really need solid food, hopefully you are just as blessed as me, able to just sit and wait to be served. On a more serious note, yes, I’m starting my kitchen work, I don’t superbly like it but it has a lot of teachings in it. I’m not dragging myself to the kitchen YET…. neither am I finding joy in it. I would still rather sit and wait to be served… ha ha!!!

O Lord of hope, help me enjoy dirtying my hands dealing with life giving things rather then things that only destroy my inner being. Because our God is always giving hope to us, I am convince and assured that one day I will be able to overcome my fears and dislike.