$300 of Saffron
It is strange to me how possessions move from hand to hand. I continually find myself gaining more and more materiel possessions. To be honest I feel like I have to much stuff as it is. Most of the stuff in my apartment I do not really consider to be mine; a chair, the couch, a camcorder, some climbing gear, a unicycle, a snake. I'm just holding onto these things until their owners get back and settle down. Then there are things that ownership does not really apply to in my mind. Such things as food have never really gone under the category of ownable things. I'm not sure if this is due to the fact that I live by myself and can eat anything in the apartment at any time or because I use to work on trails out of a base camp where everything belonged to everybody. There was no such thing as ownership of food. There is also that fact that food is something that is meant to be eaten. There is something to be said about using something for what it is meant to be used for. The purpose of food is to be eaten just as the purpose of a shovel is to move dirt. I might sound strange but when I have a shovel in my hand it is most happy when it is moving dirt, and a saw is most happy when it is biting into wood and food is most happy when it is being eaten. One of the things that it seems that all people hate moving food. Me being the most rooted person in my group of people (I'm really not sure how that happened) I am the one that ends up with all of the food that everybody has.
Me being the caretaker of peoples stuff has come into a something that I have never had under my roof. Yesterday I we helping a friend clean out another friend's apartment. We came across a very decoratively painted circular tin with a clear plastic window in the top. Looking inside the tin we see deep red threads that can be nothing else but saffron. For those of you who do not know saffron is the most expensive spice on the face of this planet. It has a very interesting taste that I actually like a lot but I have never had any inclination to go out and buy the stuff. To be honest I have no idea what you would put the stuff in. If anyone has any thoughts then please by all means pass them along or ask and I can be your saffron dealer (the best deal in the world actually, free saffron).
This whole thing brings up a number of question in my mind. One of the first is how the hell can something be so highly valued. It is just a little thread, it is not like its flavor causes orgasms or anything so wonderful. It does have a good taste but it is not that good. I understand that it is a pain in the ass to harvest this stuff though. It is the sexual organ of a beautiful purple flower each flow has three of these expensive little threads in them and it is a delicate procedure to extract the threads. This leads me to question the sanity of the human population. If it is so hard to harvest saffron then why do we do it. I would think that for a rational person there would be a point that it is not worth it. Any more it seems that there are so many things that people think are better simply because they cost more. I have always been the kind of person that would rather build something than buy it.
Anyway I do not want to ramble to much so i will move to my other point.
When did I become the guy that has the stable living conditions. I have never been much of one for living in one place for all that long. I have never really been a big fan of having a solid roof over my head. I find that I'm perfectly content living out of my car and sleeping under the stars. I think that this is part of the reason that I have always like trail crew so much. But for some reason I have been in one place for over a year now and whats worse is that I have signed a lease to be in that same place for another year. It does not seem right I have always been a nomad and been a big fan of no rent but now it is different I am here and here it appears I will stay. I now have a place that I have to return to at least once a month. The whole things seems odd to me but some how fitting.
So It might not be three hundred dollars worth of saffron but I'm quite sure that it is a good bit more than one ounce which is currently running between $50-60 for low end saffron.
Me being the caretaker of peoples stuff has come into a something that I have never had under my roof. Yesterday I we helping a friend clean out another friend's apartment. We came across a very decoratively painted circular tin with a clear plastic window in the top. Looking inside the tin we see deep red threads that can be nothing else but saffron. For those of you who do not know saffron is the most expensive spice on the face of this planet. It has a very interesting taste that I actually like a lot but I have never had any inclination to go out and buy the stuff. To be honest I have no idea what you would put the stuff in. If anyone has any thoughts then please by all means pass them along or ask and I can be your saffron dealer (the best deal in the world actually, free saffron).
This whole thing brings up a number of question in my mind. One of the first is how the hell can something be so highly valued. It is just a little thread, it is not like its flavor causes orgasms or anything so wonderful. It does have a good taste but it is not that good. I understand that it is a pain in the ass to harvest this stuff though. It is the sexual organ of a beautiful purple flower each flow has three of these expensive little threads in them and it is a delicate procedure to extract the threads. This leads me to question the sanity of the human population. If it is so hard to harvest saffron then why do we do it. I would think that for a rational person there would be a point that it is not worth it. Any more it seems that there are so many things that people think are better simply because they cost more. I have always been the kind of person that would rather build something than buy it.
Anyway I do not want to ramble to much so i will move to my other point.
When did I become the guy that has the stable living conditions. I have never been much of one for living in one place for all that long. I have never really been a big fan of having a solid roof over my head. I find that I'm perfectly content living out of my car and sleeping under the stars. I think that this is part of the reason that I have always like trail crew so much. But for some reason I have been in one place for over a year now and whats worse is that I have signed a lease to be in that same place for another year. It does not seem right I have always been a nomad and been a big fan of no rent but now it is different I am here and here it appears I will stay. I now have a place that I have to return to at least once a month. The whole things seems odd to me but some how fitting.
So It might not be three hundred dollars worth of saffron but I'm quite sure that it is a good bit more than one ounce which is currently running between $50-60 for low end saffron.
posted by The Golden Retirver at 12:45
3 Comments:
"when I have a shovel in my hand it is most happy when it is moving dirt, and a saw is most happy when it is biting into wood and food is most happy when it is being eaten."
This seems very close to the idea of "harmony". There is a best way for things to be, intrinsic to the situation, undefinable but self-evident. It comes from their basic nature. Things in harmony seem well.
How do you know saffron doesn't cause orgasms? Maybe it does, and that's why this person had so much of it.
And, the most common use of saffron is in rice. Add it to any rice dish to make it tasty. Also, it's good in stews and fish dishes.
it seems our roles have been reversed, nomad. Thank you so much for curating. I can't do this forever, so perhaps fate will once again reverse us...
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