New life from morbidity;Rotting squash
throws shoots to save itself?
Waukesha WI 12/1/09
In a surprise turn of events, a yellow squash was taken up, rotated, from a kitchen table where it has reposed for - too much time before cooking - and the homemaker dropped the squishy object in disgust. "O-o-o-o-o-e-e-u-u-w!"
Bringing it to her husband he looked at it objectively. He noted the gray and green mold and felt the softening texture of the transitioning squash. More significantly, he spied the green shoots rising from the dying mass.
"This a metaphor. Could be a simile....." he absently mouthed. Taking a circumspect, symbolic and scientific view, he said "This, right here, this, this is ....L-I-F-E!"
