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asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2024-08-14 07:40 pm

pineapple, pepper, charmed

Pineapple
I discovered that a pineapple top I'd tossed in the compost bin was looking very healthy and green, not at all like something that was falling apart to make way for other life. Checking online, I found that yes, pineapple tops grow new pineapples.

You know what this means? I can have my very own bromeliad! I can have another ungainly, climate-inappropriate plant! In three short years, I might harvest my own pineapple.

So I have transplanted it.



in the compost bin, flourishing


waiting bucket of soil


pineapple top, transplanted


The word for pineapple in Ticuna is chi'nu.

pepper
My Amazonian pepper, which I nursed along through the winter despite houseplant-plaguing little bugs, has come back with a vengeance this hot, wet summer. Look at all its peppers! They are about the size of the top part--the fingerprint part--of my middle finger. They're not ripe yet. When they're ripe, they'll be orange. And hot!



The word for hot pepper in Ticuna is meë.

charmed
Today, the prompt word for the daily prompt thing I'm doing was "charm"...

I am magnificent in infinitesimality.
I am a tiny fragment, but I partner--elegantly.
Come to me for symmetry.
I have been called "a magical device to avert evil,"
for I prevent unwanted decay in the physicists' theories.
Come to me for blessings.
I am not up, or down, and there is nothing strange about my nonduality.
You may find me enjoying my life in an accelerator near you--it's very brief, but charmed.



(Charm quark I do not understand the physics of any of this, but I do love the lingo and the quotes.)
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[personal profile] yamamanama 2024-08-15 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
The name of the fruit guaraná comes from Mawé and I was poking around Wikipedia for samples of the language and the word for pineapple is "amanda" and I wonder if they find it funny that Amanda is a common name in the US.