Fruits doesn't fall far from the tree but there seeds can go places
and wherever they go
by their virtues
they leave their traces

When you are attracted to, and eat, fruits, occasionally a seed will be carried within you to a fertile ground.

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.

The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden fairy weight of seeds, grown in sweetness that is also a darkness. Like treasure in a cave.

Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.