The Wandering Pineapple
I can’t stop thinking about that damn PINEAPPLE!
I want to eat the pineapple!
I want to cook all the things with the pineapple!
I just can’t get the pineapple out of my brain!
I think it’s time to have some FUN, because we all need to lighten up a bit these days and I feel like the infinite magic of a pineapple can make everyone smile! I am not sure where my pineapple brain is going to take me, but at this point as someone who likes structure and a plan, there is something about the pineapple that makes me want to be FREE!
I realize that lately I have been sharing some intense and deep posts about my journey. Writing and sharing in these spaces has been so therapeutic and motivating, but I am ready to change the course a little bit, as I feel STRONG, inspired, happy, full of love, laughter, and all the things! I also believe in signs and people, animals, things show up in our lives for a reason. Just like I am intune with my body, I also recognize why things show up – and as silly as it sounds – the pineapple has a purpose!
But let’s go back two weeks…I was walking on the beach with Lucy on Sullivan’s Island and I ran into a perfect pineapple, just chilling on the beach. I actually stopped and thought, how does a pineapple end up on the beach? As Lucy diligently investigated our new friend, I couldn’t believe a whole pineapple was just there.
Was it thrown overboard?
Did someone accidentally drop it while trying to cut it up on a boat?
No one just leaves a whole pineapple on the beach…So where did it come from?
It was then the pineapple obsession kind of began. I posted the pineapple on Instagram stories, then the next day one of my girlfriends saw a pineapple on the Isle of Palms beach, just a few miles away. Was the pineapple traveling? How is it possible to find two perfect pineapples on two beaches just a day apart?
That evening another friend went to a party in Florida, pineapple everything EVERYWHERE! And then my college roommate and I started talking about pineapples, why are they so good, and how do they just end up hanging out on beaches? Did they escape, did they swim, would there be more? The ideas just started forming and now here I am, writing a blog post about pineapples! Wanting to write multiple posts about pineapples! What is happening?
Even when pineapples aren’t wandering the beaches of South Carolina, they are an interesting and wonderful fruit…When you think about it, the pineapple is literally everywhere! It’s on people’s doors, doormats, napkins, paintings, wine glasses. It’s also a fruit that you can cook almost every meal with. Summer, Fall, Breakfast, Dinner, Dessert – - Cocktails! There are TONS of recipes. And did you also know that the pineapple has a plethora of health benefits too? The pineapple does it ALL!
Just the idea of the wandering pineapple makes me smile…laugh…and has inspired me to share some new delicious healthy recipes. I also think some pineapple posts will bring a whole new energy to this space that I hope you will enjoy and have some fun with too!
Sometimes with everything going on in the world we can all feel a little lost – maybe it's time to get away from the noise and toxicity and go back to basics — maybe it’s time to live like a pineapple…Soak up the sun…Make people feel good…Make people look good…Make people come together and cook new things…live carefree and float around from beach to beach, just like “The Wandering Pineapple”.
xoxo
