This worthwhile endeavor in preserving deliciousness takes two days.
The life alchemy of turning lead circumstances to golden ones is a similar process. A process that takes much longer than two days.
You see, there is a lot of time spent separating the fruit from the pit.
You put all the pits in one bowl and all the fruit in another.
You use the fruit because pit jam tastes terrible.
You know.
You’ve tried it.
And instead of letting it rot, you used the fruit.
You took what you did have and worked with it.
Because when it was all said and done, you wanted a jar of something. Because you were determined to use what grew.
You stopped asking the pit to leave nicely.
You stopped denying the pit existed.
You even thanked it for existing.
You thanked it for the good fruit.
Then, those earning The Soul Success Medal for Humanity: Made Jam proceeded to remove all the pits by hand.
Well Done.
You were in the hottest water of your life and became shelf-stable and shareable. You can now bring a bit of summer to any season.
You now know some new recipes for jam using fruit without pits.
You educate those who sneer and say,
“Lucky for you...Easy for you...Must be Nice...”
You know they only say this because they didn’t see you with the boiling water. And they have no information on the batches that had to be thrown out because they didn’t seal properly.
You know these people didn’t see you climbing the ladder nobody was holding to the top of the tree.
And they certainly never sampled your previous jars of pit jam.
Yeah…Now is nice.
But, Lucky? Lucky?!
No, it wasn’t luck.
You made this.
If you have earned or are earning this Soul Success Medal for Humanity, please place your hand on your heart and claim it for yourself.
THE SOUL SUCCESS MEDALS FOR HUMANITY AT SOUL FOOD GALLERY
