"Where there is gravity there will always be apples." ~ Jessica Hincapie In the biblical story of creation, the apple glows in the center of the garden, shiny and tempting as if it is the first Whole Ea… Read on blog or Reader Via Negativa Read on blog or Reader Apples Luisa A. Igloria April 1 "Where there is gravity there will always be apples." ~ Jessica Hincapie In the biblical story of creation, the apple glows in the center of the garden, shiny and tempting as if it is the first Whole Earth Catalog. Some other versions of that story posit the apple was really a pomegranate, or more likely a fig since art works through the ages show Adam and Eve covering their genitals with fig leaves after their fall. A tree stands in the garden of the School of Physics at the University of York, reputedly a descendant of the very tree from which an apple fell in the summer of 1666, leading to Newton's discovery of terrestrial gravitation. In late July all the way into fall, fruit bloom and ripen in orchards. There's enough for apple-picking, and more than enough that toppled to to the ground. Gravity works on the weight each apple carries in its belly: gravity the force that causes the apple to drop from the tree, that also anchors the moon in place. Surrounded by scent of apple blossom and sugar, plump cheeks tinged with a little red and yellow, don't you want to think of apples more than you want to think of gravity and all the ways it means to fall? Comment

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