Thank you, Huda. Your recommendation is evocative! I could taste the slight bitterness, nuttiness and fat of freshly pressed olive oil as I was reading your recommendation.
Thaths On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM Huda Masood via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > The most interesting thing I’ve done this year is pick olives by hand. > > I spent 8 days in Trapani, Sicily (caught ringworm from a farm kitten > but that’s another story) hand picking olives with 9 other people. > I spent the days climbing, testing the boundaries of how strong olive > branches can be (very strong) and picking olives by hand while having deep, > multilingual conversations with strangers that I learned a lot from. > > And windsurfing on branches, when I climbed high enough to poke my head > out of the canopy and the wind blew ahead of the storm. > > Olive oil that is fresh out of the mill is a completely different > creature on your tongue. > I highly recommend it if you have the chance. > > It’s slow, non tech and hard physical work. > The end result is radioactive green olive oil and a lot of memories and > dreams collected from others. Everyone talks to each other when we’re all > up in one tree. > > Huda Masood > > > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 at 08:13, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm expanding my TBR/TBW further. :) >> >> Please share the interesting things (that are not books) you read/saw >> this year. Articles, videos, films, talks, concerts... >> >> Udhay >> -- >> Silklist mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >> > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist > -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
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