The Summer of the 1,001 Figs and an 8 Legged Heroine’s Attempt to Save the Pigs
Summer time.
I am in love with it.
I wear tiny shorts. I walk to the fruit carts. They are overflowing with fruit.
Cartons of figs for 1$. Every fruit is there all piled up. It’s amazing.
I asked a fruit seller yesterday “why is everything so cheap?”. He said, “the season”.
SUMMER.
I love just walking around.
I have been eating soo many figs.
It’s such a great feeling, weirdly. Knowing how much fruit you are eating.
It’s like the more figs I consume, the more I absorb summer into my body.
It’s kind of like when you love someone so much you have to kiss them to be nearer to them.
Or when your dog or your baby brother or your boyfriend is so cute, you just want to eat them!!
Eating fruit is like that somehow. It’s like you get closer and closer to loving summer with every fig imbibed.
It got me thinking, summer is such a special time. It really is like a party. All of nature is happy. Everything is beautiful, in bloom.
The seasons are so perfect and summer is the queen of all the seasons.
Guess what. I wrote about it on Facebook today, but someone in the Toronto Pig Save Facebook group has created a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
They want to make a huge art installation of a giant web…and in the web they will weave “some pig” from Charlotte’s Web and they’ll put it opposite the pig slaughterhouse where they do their vigils.
If any of you guys remember Charlotte’s Web, you’ll know that Charlotte the wise spider saved her friend Wilbur the pig from slaughter by weaving seemingly magical phrases hyping Wilbur in her web.
Those phrases helped the farmers in the story make the connection that Wilbur wasn’t just a pig, he was special, unique, marvelous in his own way.
It almost makes me cry. We all are, aren’t we. We all are unique gems. So are pigs. Just like the two dogs I had were incredibly different in personalities from one another and so amazing and special to me. All pigs have unique personalities like dogs.
But not all pigs have a champion and guardian like Charlotte to speak up for them and save them.
That’s why Toronto Pig Save will speak for them.
Some Pig.
Maybe it will help people remember that if they were rooting for Wilbur in the story, then they should help the pigs in front of them.
Maybe they will make that elusive connection that is so deceptively hard for people to make.
Pigs are “Terrific” and “Radiant”.
People need to know that.
awesome :) love the idea of using charlottle’s web and the group’s tenacity in their vigils. good luck!
and thinking I’m not eating enough fruit this summer! :)
so glad I have perhaps inspired you to eat more fruit this summer. I am off to eat some now. And I love the idea as well. Toronto Pig Save inspires me so much. Thanks for commenting :))