On a signboard in front of the Mel-O-Glaze donut shop: "If you want sweet, give...

On a signboard in front of the Mel-O-Glaze donut shop: "If you want sweet, give sweet."
I love these words. I have repeated them over and over . . . as an admonishment, a reminder, a truth. I have said the words at the grocery store, in traffic, at the post office. I have spoken the words to the bare-limbed trees, the frozen lake, my own stubborn heart.
I have said the words so often and so passionately, that I can feel, finally, some small sweetness unfurling inside of me.