ode to an orange...

Today for film we read Ode to an Orange by Larry Woiwode and also watched A. Todd's short film of the same thing.

It describes all the sensory aspects of eating an orange.

"The packed heft and texture, finally, of an orange in your hand--this is it!--and the eruption of smell and the watery fireworks as a knife, in the hand of someone skilled, like our mother, goes slicing through the skin so perfect for slicing."

I trot back home with a new appreciation of oranges and all they have to offer...Grab one from the fridge, go to eat it and...

start choking, orange pulp lodged halfway down my throat.

Kind of ruined all my orange appreciation for the day.