Friday, December 10, 2010
The fried egg that changed my life
This is the first week of my latest stint of unemployment. I've been thinking a lot about slowing down and simplifying. Starting to read about gardening. Signed up for a Master Gardener class in February. Trying to attend more yoga classes. For some reason I decided to look up how to fry an egg. For years I've been frying the hell out of my eggs and pans and although I like my eggs I figured I was doing it wrong. I did a quick Google search on how to fry and egg and the article I found suggested that you keep the pan on very low heat and break the eggs into a bowl then transfer them in the pan and let it sit, covered on as low heat as possible for 5 minutes adding salt and pepper at the end. Now, that slows down my process almost threefold. But the egg turned out solid, smooth and frankly, very tasty. I took it as a sign that this slowing down thing is important and beneficial. Yoga has been trying to teach me this for over two years. These lessons slowly sink in, eventually. What's an extra 3 or 4 minutes in the morning to fry a tastier egg and remember this lesson? Preserves my pan, gives me time to make a new discovery or meditate a bit without frantically scraping my pan and egg and risking burning down my building. Now I need to transfer this philosophy to other aspects of my life.
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