🐩 TREE 413: Marmalade

One.

Marmalade.

mar: to damage or spoil to a certain extent; to disfigure, deface, or scar

mal-: a combining form meaning “bad”, “wrongful”, “ill”

-ade: a noun suffix indicating a drink made of a particular fruit

If life gives you marmals…

The Dictionary: Actually, Jeff, marmalade comes from the Portuguese word for quince jam.

I guess that makes some sense. Quinces and citrus peels are gross until you make them into jam. Except kumquat peel isn’t gross. Neither is zest.

Is life sweeter when you accept that some bitter experiences are inescapable? That terrible things can be an integral part of a complete existence? Can lime pickle be worked into this analogy?

mar MAL uh dee — wasn’t Marmalades a Greek philosopher? I think he was the founder of preservism. Or was it citrucism? Bless the ancient Greeks for their gifts of geometry and philosophy and logic. But I wonder how different the world would be now if we hadn’t embraced their division of physical and spiritual, if we hadn’t become so anti-matter. Would people feel more like they are their bodies and less like minds wearing meat suits?

Marmalade.

Two.

Olivia is famous for her enormous collars.

Three.

Here’s some good energy for starting a Wednesday.

Words get weird when you let them bounce around your brain.

Thank you, Dictionary.com, for help with definitions.

Grow slowly
Jeff