La Croix – Sunshine

Finally hit the jackpot and found a 12-pack of this water—weird that you can’t find it! (Maybe you can, in your town, or at your store—but not here!) The funny thing is, the first can I drank was immediately followed by one of those “ocular” migraines—that slowly growing, throbbing, colorful electric, jagged, semi-circular shape the renders one semi-blind—you can’t read anything on a screen (much less type). Could it be from this water! I hope not! But with subsequent tastings, no problem. Sunshine! You can’t beat the name. But what is the flavor? Certainly not sun, or light ray, or, unless I’m mistaken, any kind of flower. I’m thinking—a bit fruity—maybe bubblegum or “juicyfruit”—that elusive flavor—what other incarnation does that undefined fruit essence take the form of? Cotton candy, perhaps. The can has sunflowers on it! On a background of sky blue—lighter at the bottom and darker toward the top, indicating a blue sky. It’s also the color of Blue Moon ice cream, which is interesting, because the flavor could very well be very close to that flavor—which is kind of fruity, with something extra, possibly subtly nutty and/or vanilla. I can imagine that, in this water—though it’s definitely not overt! This is, like, blue water—without it actually being blue. It’s very light, that’s for sure. Anyway, it could all be in keeping with the theme—Sun and Moon, flowers and fruit, sky—lightness and depth. Pretty clever all around!

No. 116 – 8.7.25