TURN UP
"What is it? " asked Ife. "It's sooooo good for you," I, Mom replied. OK, the beginning of the green smoothie occurred two days ago: spinach, banana, water, psyllium and flax seed. That was pretty good. Today, I added more water and frozen raspberries. I realized that we hold ourselves to some pretty rigid standards sometimes with the goal of: everything we eat or drink has to taste so delicious. I'm leaving that one behind. "It doesn't taste bad," I said. I then said, think of it as medicine if necessary and TURN UP. She said mom, you are too funny. She did as instructed and finished it all.
