Most of us reading this post remember Popeye’s torrid food affair with spinach. Lately I’m having my own food fascination with the green leaves, except mine is in the form of Panera Bread’s new spinach power salad. It is made with baby spinach leaves, hard boiled eggs, mushrooms, bacon bits, and crunchy onions and served with a vidalia onion dressing. I was so in love with it, that I re-created this culinary masterpiece at home.
On weekends my husband cooks. He uses everything that’s in the fridge and he usually doesn’t bother asking me about anything in there because he knows I don’t cook. Last week he used my mushrooms. It took me two days to find my way back to the store to replace them. This week he used my last hard boiled egg (although he did ask if I was in love with that last egg before he used it) I told him to go ahead, making a mental note that again I’d be one ingredient short come weekday lunchtime.
I spent the morning agonizing (in the back of my mind) over how I was missing that egg and I really don’t want to leave the house until night yoga. Then…..while brushing my teeth…my head snaps up and my brain bursts forth with Linda, just boil another egg.
How extraordinarily simple. Boil another egg. The egg is boiling and I’m watching the first Papal vote on TV. In this day and age of iThings and Tweets, I’m watching for a smoke signal. Sometimes in our complicated chaotic lives, we lose sight of the simplicity hovering right in front of us. Boil another egg and watch for a smoke signal.
I wonder what else in my day is really much more simple than I’m making it out to be? What about you? Look around at the things impeding your progress today. Is it really much simpler than it seems?
And so, as another day goes by, some things really are just black and white, and ….I have written.
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