pineapple trees

"Mommy look! Pineapple trees!" The little girl pointed at the window of the taxi they were driving in.

The mother laughed and didn't say a word.

"Mom! Did you see them? They are so tall. They look like Giant pineapples!"

Her eyes chased every single ones as they passed by the window-

one by one, she counted until she reached a number she couldn't hit.

and from that day on, she called them Pineapple trees, until she went to school and learned the word "Palm trees"

I still remember that day like yesterday

so clear, too clear. Kind of breaks my heart thinking back,

after ten years, wanting to seize that very moment;

pointing out from the taxi, on our way home

at my first steps in America, Los Angeles, California.

It's so, so hard to believe

that little girl, who knew nothing,

has already grown so big who now knows something.

-This is one of my personal favorite memories.