I have a friend from high school that went on to have six sons, make her living and her life on a massive seed farm and pretty much makes me look like I am standing still most of the time. Recently, on Facebook she posted about an average day, each son off in a different direction, husbands clocking a 16-hour day in the tractor and her working and cooking and coordinating. In her note she added after about a thousand items: “and to top it off I overcooked a pan of bacon and now we will be having bacon bits”. I have so many questions, why when cold cereal exists is she cooking bacon on a busy day? Why are they not just eating the crumbly bacon beside their eggs? Why can I not even remember the last time I cooked bacon? She is a force of nature, and I am in awe. I think too it reminds me that while my life seems far less complex the overcooked bacon part seems pretty familiar. The one thing on top of the whole long list of “to do’s” that does not turn out right, that gets over done, under done, blown or completely missed. So I guess, like my pal we have two options, throw up our hands and give in to the forces of an over busy day or instantly decide to make a salad that requires bacon bits. The pandemic overused the word pivot, but I guess that is what we are talking about, when something does not turn out the way we were expecting or it is just the one thing that we can’t make right in a long list of things to do, just spin it, crumble it up, put it in a Ziplock and pretend that bacon bits was what you were aiming for. And in all times remember that cold cereal is an option for any meal in my opinion.
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