Positive Focus Thursday - We Are All Just Tomatoes!

This past week I canned two pints of tomatoes.

I had a bunch of cherry tomatoes and didn't want them to go to waste, so I spent WAY TO MUCH TIME peeling them and canning them.

If you will notice, it's sort of yellowish, with bits of red, orange and green peeking through. This is because I am growing white, yellow, orange, red, green, black and pink tomatoes. And when you only have a few of each, which adds up to a lot of tomatoes. What you can is a mixture.

Then a couple of days later, my tomato man posted a picture of the quarts of tomatoes he and his wife had canned. 

And don't you know - there were green, red, yellow, white, pink, black and orange tomatoes all mixed up together in his jars!

Which got me to thinking (which can be dangerous sometimes)...

We are all just tomatoes!

We, as humans, come in all colors and some people seem to be wanting to make a major issue and division of the color of a person's skin and where they may or may not come from these days. Which pretty well ticks me off most days.

So I was thinking. 

If you were blindfolded and given a slice of tomato to eat and were asked what it was, you would say 'tomato'. 

That's it. Just tomato.

You wouldn't say 'red tomato', 'yellow tomato', you would just say 'tomato'. 

Yes, tomatoes do taste a bit different from each other if you were doing a taste test. But it's still basically a tomato. 

IT'S THE SAME THING WITH PEOPLE! 

Tomatoes came in all shapes and sizes - just like people! Some are tall, some are short. Some produce their fruit all at once and others drag it out for several weeks. Some produce fruit early in the season and like cooler weather. Others thrive in warm weather and will bear fruit until frost hits them. 

People are much like that. We may have a different accent (and that doesn't mean you came from a different country either). We may wear our hair differently. But we are all humans on the inside!

And we all want basically the same things in life - a home, food, safety, enough money to provide those things for ourselves and their families. We are not all that different from each other.

And if you think, 'Well, 'maters are 'Merican' - well, you would only be partially right. And this part kind of tickles me. Tomatoes are 'American', but a bit further south. As in Mexico! 

You see, the Aztecs are credited with growing tomatoes. Of which, us evil Europeans took them back home as we were invading and conquering the Americas! 

Then the Europeans, who immigrated without really filing the necessary paperwork, brought them back to what would become the United States of America.

So in a weird and warped way, I am finding a bit of humor in the current political situation. Mainly because there is always that one rotten tomato which, if left with the other tomatoes, will make them rotten too. You need to throw it out as soon as you discover it.

Now for a nice BLT with my tomatoes of color!