Recycling Effort

What if 2006 was lemons ~ must one make lemonade? Is that recycling effort ultimately the best use of resources in all circumstances? What if the lemons were diseased, or unwholesome? Why not let them then decay into the ground, become dust, and till them under? Relinquish ...

Indeed, the theme of 2006 for me was relinquishment: a thing I was at many points grateful to be called to do, finding myself knee-deep on occasion in lemons that would have made undrinkable lemonade, no matter how cleverly marketed, argued, or masked with more sugar.

[via The Philosophical Pastor]