We are hitting our homeschool summer break, and with that, I'm going to start up another round of summer gratitudes on the blog. As always, my mind could use a reset towards thankfulness, and working through these lists is a helpful way to do it. I plan to post a few of these per week through the summer, and invite any of you who enjoy gratitude lists to join me!
Day 1 is "What Kind of Food are You Grateful For?"
While I'm very grateful for the simple food that constitutes the vast, vast majority of life, at this moment I'm feeling most grateful for the kind of food you get to eat at a fancy restaurant. I'm grateful for how you often get to eat in courses, with an appetizer, a salad, a main course, and dessert - instead of cramming everything onto one plate and eating through it like a race before getting on to the next thing on the schedule, you get to savor the food, the company, and the whole experience. I appreciate how nice restaurants care about the aesthetics of the food, presenting things beautifully and sometimes even artfully. I appreciate how they attend to the texture and the smell as well as the taste. I appreciate how they are so inventive, coming up with spice and flavor combinations that you've never seen before. I appreciate how they can take a classic food that you've eaten a hundred times and prepare it better than you've ever had it before. I appreciate how the restaurants strive to make the whole experience pleasurable, with hospitable service and nice decorations or views. I am grateful how this commonest of activities, this thing we need to do multiple times per day every day to sustain life, can also be turned into such a grand, pleasurable, celebratory event.
