Breakfast and Service
To begin a day with a 6 am breakfast, two eggs, toast, and home fries, is a wonderful thing. But hard. Also, Dunlaps Bakery in Gettysburg serves this dish with reasonably little grease, which is also nice.
I finished a draft of one story this morning. It follows a small congregation from Canada to the Gulf Coast Region on a service trip. It was great to talk with the individuals who had gone, they were so excited and encouraged from their travels. The bonding that takes place on a trip when you are eating, sleeping and working for the same things is like nothing else.
That is why I enjoy traveling so deeply. While you are processing new, and often shallow, information of an area you can only stay in for a short time, you are forming much deeper bonds with your traveling companions.
One widow who had been on the service trip woke up the morning after they returned and said she felt there were twenty-one people missing from her life...anyone who has traveled that closely with a group of people knows exactly the feeling she is speaking of. It is nice to know that probably at any given moment someone is having that feeling.
Another reason why this post title makes sense: going to breakfast with your friends takes a sacrifice, a sacrifice of more early morning sleep-which is kind of service, right?
I finished a draft of one story this morning. It follows a small congregation from Canada to the Gulf Coast Region on a service trip. It was great to talk with the individuals who had gone, they were so excited and encouraged from their travels. The bonding that takes place on a trip when you are eating, sleeping and working for the same things is like nothing else.
That is why I enjoy traveling so deeply. While you are processing new, and often shallow, information of an area you can only stay in for a short time, you are forming much deeper bonds with your traveling companions.
One widow who had been on the service trip woke up the morning after they returned and said she felt there were twenty-one people missing from her life...anyone who has traveled that closely with a group of people knows exactly the feeling she is speaking of. It is nice to know that probably at any given moment someone is having that feeling.
Another reason why this post title makes sense: going to breakfast with your friends takes a sacrifice, a sacrifice of more early morning sleep-which is kind of service, right?
posted by hannah at
7:54 AM
2 Comments:
:) I have regular early morning breakfasts with a friend, so I totally know what you're talking about! The two of us are pretty zany, even at 7 a.m., but you're right; there's a sense of discipline and sacrifice that wouldn't be there if we met for lunch . . . interesting, huh?
It sounds like you got some wonderful information and quotes from your interviews last week! I look forward to learning more about Ethel Climenhaga, Boyle BIC (which I promise I'll read today!), and everyone else you're in the process of interviewing.
(And I also look forward to hearing more about traveling and breakfasts--two of my favorite things!)
By
Dulcimer, at 6:08 AM
No sacrifice this morning! heheh
By
levi, at 7:16 AM
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