Funny you mentioned the tea ceremony, I was watching a documentary about it earlier this week. Must’ve seeped into my subconscious and made its way into the writing!
You have lifted my memory to childhood where cereal played a very important role. First memory - being allowed to add a "spoonful" of sugar to Cheerios! 😲Now you have to consider the joy from lapping up the nuclear waste at the bottom of that bowl...delightful! Second memory - on the last school day as summer vacation started, my mom would allow each of us to select a "sugar cereal" (not Cheerios, Kix, Raisin Bran...). It was always either Cap'n Crunch w Crunchberries or Apple Jacks. She had to buy us each our own box or my brother would eat everything on the first day in the house... Good times. Third memory - reading the cereal box while I ate breakfast. This was my time. I read all sides of the box. I still remember in fourth grade one of our spelling words was "volume." When the teacher asked us to use it in a sentence, I chimed in "This package sold by weight, not by volume." 😊
Thanks for the memory lane trip. Thinking about you every day. Now I have to go buy some Apple Jacks.
The true joy comes in paying attention to the little details and nuances. If you can have a rutual for drinking tea, then you can have a ritual for cereal!
Funny you mentioned the tea ceremony, I was watching a documentary about it earlier this week. Must’ve seeped into my subconscious and made its way into the writing!
You have lifted my memory to childhood where cereal played a very important role. First memory - being allowed to add a "spoonful" of sugar to Cheerios! 😲Now you have to consider the joy from lapping up the nuclear waste at the bottom of that bowl...delightful! Second memory - on the last school day as summer vacation started, my mom would allow each of us to select a "sugar cereal" (not Cheerios, Kix, Raisin Bran...). It was always either Cap'n Crunch w Crunchberries or Apple Jacks. She had to buy us each our own box or my brother would eat everything on the first day in the house... Good times. Third memory - reading the cereal box while I ate breakfast. This was my time. I read all sides of the box. I still remember in fourth grade one of our spelling words was "volume." When the teacher asked us to use it in a sentence, I chimed in "This package sold by weight, not by volume." 😊
Thanks for the memory lane trip. Thinking about you every day. Now I have to go buy some Apple Jacks.
The true joy comes in paying attention to the little details and nuances. If you can have a rutual for drinking tea, then you can have a ritual for cereal!
I really miss cereal but as a diabetic they have been off my menu for quite some time (sigh).