Healing

Ali still had problems with healing. She still wanted to do things like cook fudge and make things that were so unhealthy. Maybe it was the cold and dreariness of the weather, or the sheer drug of sugar. So she made fudge and got it out of her system. It was the opera fudge she saw in a magazine. She gave away most of it, but ate enough to be high for a little while. Ali knew that it wouldn't keep her cancer free to eat fudge. The supplements and produce diet helped her more than anything. But the people she gave it to were very happy to receive her gifts, and sharing it with so many people helped everyone not go into sugar overload. Cherries and fudge. She made it several times but not for after the opera. An opera house and a bakery/cafe had that tradition in another time.

Ali didn't understand why she was flirting with what made her lethargic and want to sleep. The smell, the process, the time of year or maybe just giving gifts to people as a means to connect with them. She decided to figure out better ways to connect with people than getting high from sugars and the chemicals in the concoction. It didn't take long. Someone gave her something to do with her citrus peels. She slivered the peels into julienne pieces with layers of cheap table salts covering the peels. The salts dried the peels as it freshened the room's smells and vapors and then when water was added, the water could clean out dirty bath tubs or toilets or chrome faucets and when emptied into the trash, the kitty litter smell disappeared she discovered. And the drying peels and salt were interesting to watch.