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A Small Late Harvest of Strawberry Memories
Our garden keeps providing. These strawberries were picked yesterday. My mom has been taking care of these strawberries. Here in Sweden we are lucky if the strawberries are ripe for Midsummer, but on many midsummer celebrations we have had our strawberries from the garden.
Yesterday’s late berries tasted concentrated—as if wild strawberries had been reduced to their essence. Sweet, yes, but edged with a clean sourness that only comes at season’s end. Candy-like without losing their honesty. The kind of flavor that stops you, then stays.
I set them in a white bowl on a white plate, on the dark gray counter. The simplicity felt true: bright fruit, quiet porcelain, a grounded background. It’s the same kind of truth that lives in our home, my only real home—where small rituals become anchors.
My mother, now in her eighties, still tends the soil with patience learned over decades. Every berry is her care, distilled. The house may be facing its own uncertain season, but the garden is still speaking. These strawberries are not just produce; they’re continuity, a whispered reminder that sweetness survives in late light.
I’m Sam Diellor Luani—interpreter, translator, creative artist, and a faithful servant of Leo my cat. I pick, I photograph, I write, and I hold on to what’s real: a handful of red jewels that taste like time, and the mother, and the home that made them possible.
UKTI and SDL hosted the Global Information Management Seminar and Reception on 22 Nov 2011.
SDL and UKTI hosted the Global Information Management Seminar and Reception on 22 Nov 2011.
Besançon le 5 octobre 2007. Edition 2007 du Festival Musiques de Rues. Imperial Kikiristan sur la place de la Révolution. Photo Simon Daval / Motsdimages.net
Besançon le 5 octobre 2007. Edition 2007 du Festival Musiques de Rues. La Bête à Bon Dos. Photo Simon Daval / Motsdimages.net
Besançon le 5 octobre 2007. Edition 2007 du Festival Musiques de Rues. La Bête à Bon Dos. Photo Simon Daval / Motsdimages.net
UKTI and SDL hosted the Global Information Management Seminar and Reception on 22 Nov 2011.
SDL and UKTI hosted the Global Information Management Seminar and Reception on 22 Nov 2011.
My turbo-diesel 1986 Mercedes Benz. It's quite rare, a two model year only car. This is the long-wheelbase 300SDL with the 3.0 liter "OM603" motor.