Star fruit and flowers

I made a star fruit dessert tonight.  The aroma of it as it cooked was simply amazing!

My grandmother would make it when I was tiny little thing and I would spend the summer with her. From this sweet smell I was transported back in time. I could hear her voice asking me if I wanted it  hot or if I wanted to wait till it cooled down. I could see myself impatiently waiting for it to be done; seating in her tiny kitchen.

One of the things I loved about my grandmother's property was that it had lots of fruit trees all around it in the land next to the house. We would go together in pick cherries, guava and most delicious mangoes around.

I hated the fact that she would wake me up really early and have me sweep the enormous yard. She'd tell me that it would help me warm up from the morning chill.

I think I got my love for plants from her. She had this terrace full of flowers and plants and in the afternoons after we had lunch we would sit there to enjoy the afternoon breeze that would carry the scent of the various flowers around us.

 Even the entrance to the house was made out of these short bushes that produced a red little flower that I would make reefs out of and also suck its sweet juice out of it.

Art and Philosophy Class

I am so excited about this class! I have always been interested in philosophy but to have it combined with art; which I love; it is just simply awesome.

I am learning so much. This class is perfect to kick start my brain after seventeen years of being out of school. It has been a slow start but I determined to get a good grade.

I need to be a faster reader since there is a lot of reading to done and also my focus is bad. But I guess is just a matter of getting into some good studying habits.

It has been a little weird to to be seating in class with such young people. It was weird even back when I was in college because even though I was as young as them I was already a parent and always a part time student because I had to work full time. Even tough I'm pretty good at relating to young people now I really have nothing in common with them. Their lack of motivation really bothers me. While I'm ecstatic about the opportunity to be back in school; to me; it seems that they are there but really not there. It could be that to them a class like this is just a requisite and that is why they really have no interest in learning anything about it.  But even that is not an excuse to show some motivation and participation. There is about three of them whom are very smart and I'm very impressed with their eloquence and thoughts in the subject.

The professor is really good and that is a tremendous plus in a class like this.  There is nothing I dislike more than to sit in a class with a professor that I do not respect because his lack of knowledge in the subject or poor teaching techniques. But that is not the case here.

I was thinking that how have I not taken this type of classes before since I have always liked the subject. I should have a list taken it even if it was as a non-credit class. But there is really no point in looking back. All we have is the now and the now is pretty great!!!