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A comic in four panels:

Panel 1: Young witch Pepper, writing at her desk, with a feather pen and ink. She worries, clearly struggling to find inspiration with a white page, while her hand support her head. On the wall near to her a calendar with a big ‘Deadline’ in red written on it, circling a day. All the day before that one are striked with a cross except one. Whatever Pepper is supposed to write is up to the audience’s imagination.

Panel 2. Suddenly, a powerful goddess emerges from a light before the writer, her aura like a flame of pure golden light. She stands divine, while Pepper is captivated in awe before the gorgeous goddess, radiating light and life.

Pepper: Who… Who are you?!

Panel 3. The Goddess of Life bends slightly toward Pepper while creating a spell with her hands in a intense light a rounded object. She speaks with an air of complicity.

Goddess of Life: I am the Goddess of Life, and I’ve come to give you a special gift.

Panel 4. The Goddess of Life’s gift is a lemon fruit. She beams with pride and happiness. Pepper looks resigned with a mixture of disappointment and exasperation.

Pepper: Of course…
Goddess of Life: You’re welcome.

This comic strip is a reference to the proverbial phrase: “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1083/the-gift-of-life

  • blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io
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    Depends on how to look at it, if it gave us the capacity to turn those fruits into lemons, and gave those fruits the capacity to be turned into lemons…

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      If a man and a woman have a baby, did their parents give them a baby? No.

      We made lemons, life gave us citrons and bitter oranges.