A sour patch š¹
A lemon just is.
It doesnāt spend its time
telling you sour things
are bad. That is
a fruitless effort.Instead, it radiates
into your experience;
you taste its zap-sour
yellow heart for yourself.Itās not a lemonās job
to be sweet. It is not
your place to demand
that it be so. It is your jobto add sugar to the sour things.
Donāt disparage yourself
when in fact, with a little love,
you have lemonade potential.
Iām pulling one from the archives todayāremember to be kind to yourself, even when youāre not at your sweetest.
This note to self was written March 6th, 2021.
In other news, look at this box of what used to be free lemons I found a couple years ago in the hills of Echo Park: