Meditations while waiting on a bubbling rice cooker.
As a kid I used to get bad rashes from its pollen, bad nightmares of our house being engulfed in a rice paddy, and now a bad case of the blahs reminiscing the tropics from my temperate location. Rice, thanks for the steamy memories.
Illustration of ORYZA sativa L. 74 from the Missouri Botanical Garden collection.
