When I was growing up in the lush, green valleys of California, we never went hungry.
Not once during my youth of plenty did I or my sister ever set down to an empty plate on a table.
We grew tomatoes in the backyard and picked sticky handfuls of wild blackberries that stained our hands and shirts dark red.
The landscape was green and lush,
and when gray storm clouds rumbled loudly overhead, the sky would grow thick and wet with rain.
Perhaps my view is slightly tinted by rosy nostalgia, but it seems we practically lived outdoors back then - climbing gnarled trees in the backyard and scooping unfortunate caterpillars into jars.
We were children of the forest,
without ever knowing any different way to be.
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