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2 egg special
May 2009 
What do you think you'll be saying about this in ten years?
Posted on Feb 16th, 2008
by 
ruth
ruth
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 16, 2008:
I'll be saying "2 eggs over easy with brown toast and bacon. Oh, and do you have marmalade?"
I don't count on anything else I know now to be the same. :)
Nothing I believed 10 years ago do I believe now. Except perhaps that compassion and creativity are where I should set my heart and mind and soul: this I have believed all my life.
Though, even that is beginning to erode as I can see that at times since childhood I acheived compassion before I figured out that if one does not uphold self preservation equally with compassion, one will not be around much longer in order to exercise compassion. And that is just fine if one does not have children. But if one does have children, self preservation is just as important as compassion. At least for a few years. :)
So 10 years from now I count on being able to still go on the weekend morning prowl for the cheapest greasiest 2 egg special.
With marmalade on the side.
I don't count on anything else I know now to be the same. :)
Nothing I believed 10 years ago do I believe now. Except perhaps that compassion and creativity are where I should set my heart and mind and soul: this I have believed all my life.
Though, even that is beginning to erode as I can see that at times since childhood I acheived compassion before I figured out that if one does not uphold self preservation equally with compassion, one will not be around much longer in order to exercise compassion. And that is just fine if one does not have children. But if one does have children, self preservation is just as important as compassion. At least for a few years. :)
So 10 years from now I count on being able to still go on the weekend morning prowl for the cheapest greasiest 2 egg special.
With marmalade on the side.
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Oh dear. The pic is inconsistent. See, there is nothing to really count on.
That day the waitress at mellos said the sausage was great. So I had sausage instead of bacon. There is no marmalade in the pic cause she had to go search in the back for it.
I can see the marmalade. it is on your cheek, and in your heart. What a wonderful imagery.. thank you.
Marmalde and greasy sausages … . Paddington's prescription for healthy, wealthy and wise living - even in Deepest, Darkest Puru.
Well if you and Paddington say so, then I will take marmalade and greasy sausages as nutrition, on your good authority.
You see, there may have been a lecture on nutrition back in medical school. But I think I was late that day, having to finished off the last of the hash browns before I could make it to class.
Hamilton Ontario was great for having a Tim Hortons on every corner. But as a good steel plant town, there was also a string of the best restaurants en route to McMaster. You know the sort: liver and fried onions, tapioca or rice pudding. And even if all the chrome booths were full, there was a vinly stool at the counter….mmmmm…
I'm thinking … can't help myself apparently… that the compassion you mentioned, just takes a different form, as in compassion for yourself, when you consider self preservation. Anything you give away, you ought to be giving to yourself too, and/or receiving in turn, if flow is to continue. Anything else will be stagnancy…
That meal though, that's looking pretty good for once a week, now AS then! Yum Yum
Sherri
Are there Tim Hortons in the Caribean?
Hahaha No [unfortunately??] Franchises are spare in our part of the world; too small population sizes to be profitable… and you know profit RULES! Thank God we get left out of some of the 'good' stuff. lol
So it'd have to be a small 'shop' or home cooked meal. But it'd be goooodd! SC
Hey Christine could you please pass the butter for my toast and the cream too?
No, that's for my coffee.
Don't you just hate it when they serve the toast without the butter on it?
So they don't serve scrapple up this way, huh?
They don't serve it out this way either and I'm not even sure why I thought of that??