Pineapple season

It’s pineapple season in Iquitos and it’s pineapples all the way down.

Yesterday I ate one and cut three. I cut the scales off first and saved them for tea.

I ate around the core of one of them as that’s where it’s sweetest.

Fruit is the best marketing.

It’s selling pure possibility in the form of a seed, and the hope of it going somewhere. It contains registered nutrition. And actual desirable flavor. It combines well with other delicious things. It’s colorful and interesting.

Pineapple is also a bromeliad, and bromeliads make incredible weaving fibers.

Reach for it when you feel weak.