Samuel II:17, 27 - 29
"And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi... and Machi... brought wheat and parched corn, and beans... for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The People is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."
There are beans everywhere - in the big baskets at the green grocers around the corner and in barrels at the market. I'm drawn to them because they taste so utterly like spring - fresh, dank, dirty, sweet. And if there's anything in this wilderness of a city that feeds my soul, it's crunching into a green bean and tasting the spray of life.
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