Do I Dare to Eat a Peach

A peach sits ripening on the counter, raising the same quiet question T.S. Eliot’s Prufrock once asked. This episode traces the small, almost shy courage required to claim uncomplicated pleasure before the season moves on. It’s an invitation to stop performing long enough to meet whatever is actually ripe right now. Word of the day: lambent — softly glowing, as if light were playing gently across a surface