“Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.”

—Carl Sandberg, 20th Century Pulitzer Prize winning poet and journalist

Image from Unsplash by Lars Blankers

Do you do much cooking? If so, how often do you use onions in your recipes?

If you use them often you know that they are most often sliced and diced rather than peeled layer by layer.

Life can be like that too, when its difficulties and challenges seem to slice through our existing plans and expectations.

Getting back to cooking, what happens when our layered friends are sautéed and browned?

Yep! the caramelization process brings out natural sugars to enhance their subtle sweetness!

EXERCISE:

Like an onion, how can you bring out more of life’s sweetness into your days and accept the tears that often come as we slice, dices and layer?