January 28, 2017
Orange Juice
On a warm tropical morning, there is nothing
better than fresh squeezed orange juice.
On many street corners of downtown Santa Cruz, you can find a lady making
freshly squeezed orange juice. I thought
I would show you how it is done here in Santa Cruz. So one day, I went looking for the right
lady, so I could take some pictures to share with you.
I remember getting a nice orange juice from
a lady outside the Capilla Jesus Nazareno, Chapel of Jesus the Nazarene, so
that is where I decided to go. While she
made me an orange juice and I took pictures, I asked how she was doing.
“Life is hard,” she said. Mostly her problems centered on how people
treat her poorly. I left a little extra
from my $0.50 orange juice. It was just
a few cents more, but I thought she would cry.
It takes so little to make someone feel good. It doesn’t have to be money, but a kind word
and a thank you will do it too.
So here is how she made the fresh orange
juice. First, she used a hand-operated
machine that peals the orange. All her
oranges had just been peeled before I took pictures, so I have no pictures of
the oranges getting peeled. Then she cut
four oranges in half. One at a time, she
put a half in the press and squeezed out the delicious goodness. You could smell it as it is being squeezed!
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