{"id":877,"date":"2011-09-09T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2011-09-09T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T16:11:19","slug":"fruitful-alchemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/09\/fruitful-alchemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruitful Alchemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/40-applebutter.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-878\" title=\"40.applebutter\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/40-applebutter.jpg?resize=540%2C540\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve stepped back a bit from the canning jars and boiling pots this week to enjoy a bit of last weeks labor.\u00a0 My morning is sublime with apple butter spread sticky and thick across crunchy crusty buttered toast.\u00a0 Ah such sweet labor.\u00a0 Part of me balks at opening a jar so soon, isn\u2019t the point of all this canning and preserving to save it for later?\u00a0 It\u2019s only been a week, for heaven sake.\u00a0 But no it\u2019s meant to be eaten, finger lick\u2019n, lip smack\u2019n, eaten! \u00a0 I&#8217;ll admit the urge to hoard, and whisper \u201cmine, all mine\u201d while wringing my hands in greedy glee but I&#8217;m usually able to remember these bounty days will return along with a kitchen full of fruitful alchemy. The bounty is meant to be shared.\u00a0 There is nothing more satisfying than bringing a jar of jam to a friend\u2019s house as a hostess gift or thank you, it\u2019s like bringing a painting home to mom in first grade, ceremoniously holding it up and beaming \u201cI made this!\u201d \u00a0The idea of preserving and consuming seem to be on either end of the teeter-totter of human urges. But \u201cputting up\u201d ones bounty is about doing both.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been thinking about all the ways we put up, can, and preserve bits of us.\u00a0 I think that making art has some of the same elements, making something beautiful or expressive or both put into a tidy package of a painting or photograph sealing up an idea or moment to share like berries in a jar.\u00a0 My dad sent me an email after last weeks post about putting up all those jeweled jars of jam, he mused that perhaps he and my mom had \u201cput up\u201d their genes in the five grandchildren who now wander the planet as sweet and spicy and full of pleasure and potential as a jar of apple butter.\u00a0 Well put I thought, so while our bodies will some day be consumed we each \u201cput up\u201d a part of ourselves in our children, our friends, our art, our writing, and in the simple act of living fully and truly.<\/p>\n<p><em>This <\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><em>Still Life with Apple Butter<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><em> drawing was done on my new birthday Ipad! 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