and especially to the children, the young people here today. It's good to see you. I imagine all of you, the first part of the lecture will be for the, especially for the young people, and then they'll go and have their program. I imagine you've all started school. Is that true? Yes. So you've had your first day of school. How was it? I heard a not good over there. Was anybody excited about their first day of school? Yeah? I used to love the first day of school. Well, I wanted to tell you a story, which you may know this story. It's a very famous fairy tale, kind of old story, so you might know it. But I wanted to tell it... especially because of what your project is going to be today when you leave here and go out to the fields, okay?

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And I think Shoho and Seth are going to take you into the fields to do potato harvesting. Is that right? That is one of the, I see some of you have done this before maybe, this is one of the best jobs in the garden. And in fact, on Wednesday when we had community work, I was assigned harvest potatoes just on Wednesday and it was like, it's like discovering buried treasure as if you were a pirate and digging up buried treasure. So I'm really happy you get to do this job. There's, do you know the riddle, what has eyes but cannot see? Do you know that riddle? What has eyes but cannot see? Does anybody know? Some of the adults might know. This is an old riddle. Do you know what has eyes but cannot see? What has eyes but cannot see?

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The answer is a potato. Because on the potato, there are these little spots that are called potato eyes. What? That's cool. It's really cool because those eyes... out of those eyes, sprout out the next potato plant will come from those eyes. So there's a way of cutting out the eye of the potato and planting that, and then you have potatoes year after year. I can't hear exactly what the comments are of some of the young people, but... So this is a story called Stone Soup. So I might tell it a little bit differently than you know it, because I think a lot of you know it. Once upon a time, there was a village. And in that village, the people were very sad and a little bit wary of strangers and kind of frightened.

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And one day, a soldier who was not soldiering, but was on his way home, actually, and was very, very hungry, passed through that village. And there were lots of houses there, but nobody came out to greet him, and nobody said, oh, it's supper time, come on over to my house. And he called out, anybody here? He could tell people were maybe peeking out from behind the windows, but nobody came out. So he found this great big iron kettle, kind of a big cauldron, and he found some firewood, and he made a little fire, and he set the big kettle on the fire, and then he went and found three stones, and he washed them up, three smooth stones, and he put them in the kettle, and he put water inside the kettle and filled it up, and was stirring the pot and whistling, and somebody, a young child actually came out and said, hey mister, what are you doing?

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And he said, well, I'm making stone soup. It's very good, delicious. I love stone soup. And he's stirring his pot. And the child said, gee, how do you make soup out of stones? He said, you just boil up the stones. And of course, it could use a little salt and pepper. That always tastes really good with stone soup. And so the child said, well, we have salt and pepper at home. So he ran home and brought back salt and pepper, and they put it into the pot. And then pretty soon some other villagers came out, and they were kind of curious, too, about this stone soup. And they said, gee, I bet it might taste good with some cabbages in there. I've got a cabbage. Oh, you've got some cabbages. Well, sure, bring a cabbage or two. So this person went to where they had been hiding their food under their bed. They brought out a cabbage, chopped it up, threw it into the soup, stirring it. Mmm, smells good. Stone soup is so delicious.

[05:26]

Somebody else came out and said, that smells so good. I wonder, you know, I've got a carrot or two. And the soldier said, a carrot would be really nice. And somebody else came, he said, potatoes are really nice in stone soup. We should, anybody got potatoes? Oh, people had potatoes. Yes, they were hiding in their caves. These cold storage places, they had potatoes. They brought out potatoes pretty soon. Lots of people were out there chopping and adding things and gathering. Come on in. Herbs to throw into the soup. And then someone else said, while it's cooking, wouldn't it be fun to have some music? And he went home and got his instrument, began playing the fiddle. Somebody else brought out something. Pretty soon the whole village was out there. And they set up long tables, and they set the tables with tablecloths and flowers and silverware and cups, and the whole village was out there.

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And after an hour or two, the soup was ready, and they ladled out the soup to everybody, and everybody had a delicious soup and danced and talked and laughed. And the soldier said, It's amazing what you can make out of three stones. Delicious soup. So it's kind of magic, isn't it, what you can do with three stones. I was wondering, for those of you, if you can imagine yourself in that village, what you might have thrown into the pot. What do you like in your soup? What? You like pumpkins. That would be delicious in soup. Yes, how about you? Tofu. That is one of my favorite ingredients for soup. Little squares of tofu. The first time I had it, I didn't even know what it was, and it was so good.

[07:33]

Tofu, what else? Lentils. Lentils are fabulous in soup. Delicious and very good for you. Yes. Noodles, yes. They're wonderful to throw in near the end and then you have pasta in your soup, noodles in your soup. How about you? Mushrooms, yes. Mushrooms are so tasty and so good for you. How about you? Mushrooms, yes. There's all sorts of different kinds of mushrooms to put into soup. That's right. Any other ingredients that people like to throw into their soup? Oh, yes. Say it again. Chicken. Very delicious in soup. Slow cooked, very flavorful and very good if you're sick too. Yes. What do you like in soup? Everything. You know, I think that's really true.

[08:35]

Everything can go in soup. Soup is very, very, it can accept everything, like the ocean. Any other soup ingredients? How about beans? Do people like beans in their soup? Yes, how about you? Carrots, excellent. So as you can see, you can put lots and lots of things in soup. And everybody can contribute, everybody can share, and everybody can offer something to the big soup pot. And this village where everybody was holding onto their food, Once they came into the center of the town and shared everything together, there was happiness that blossomed. Okay? So now you're lucky enough to go down into the fields and search for buried treasure and do your potato harvest, okay?

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Thank you very much for coming, everybody.

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