Have you ever bought anything for lots of reasons but none in particular? As a "frugal Fanny," I rarely buy a grocery store item for no particular reason, unless it's on sale.
But I did today---though there was an underlying feeling of nostalgia that prompted the purchase.
Do you recognize it?
I have probably eaten papaya before in a mixed "tropical" fruit salad, but I've never bought one. This one was already cut in half so I could see it looked ripe. So....in to my Fresh Market bitty basket it went.
Prior to that, I spent several minutes recalling Lynda Lou Graham Cross. Lynda Lou my Pi Phi little sis in 1965. Lynda Lou, a "campus cutie" and Derby Day queen." Originally from Madison, TN, she left MSU after her sophomore year, married and moved to Lepanto, AR and on to Jamaica, where she and her family lived on a "papaya plantation." Eventually Lynda Lou returned to the Mid-South, in MS Delta area. Then I lost track of her. Standing there in the produce department, my heart hurt thinking about that loss. (Psalm 14:18)
All of those memories prompted by a papaya plant. So....naturally, I had to buy it....just because!
