Fruitful Crops

Last year about this time, M shared her fruitcake recipe with us. I tried to get my wife to bake it as I enjoyed Christmas with fruitcake though I am not really a Christian. Well, the reason why I had it was because I lived with an Eurasian family before.

There is no specific reason for me to do it every year, somehow I want to see how long can this go, how many years I can go on with making M's recipe, thinking of someone I have never met, and yet share lots of things in common with me. Or if there is a reason, I want to challenge something in future, one day I can say something like, "hey look, we have done this for years, and yet we are still doing it." Just to say that, I need to cultivate the earth, and take care of the little seeds I simply planted last year.

But, the fact that it grows, the ground has been moistened, and the little bud comes out. With what the reason I can give this up? Nope. And to continue, I just got to do my part, that's why I have made fruitcake again this year.

M, this is for you. Thank you. Merry Christmas! And for those who share and celebrate it.