Dear Readers,
Lynne has been on
jury duty for the past couple of weeks.
While she is quite proud of herself for doing her civic duty, the
commute and the courtroom environment take their toll. On Wednesday, she was on her way home,
dreaming of homemade egg salad. “The
problem,” she thought to herself, “is that I’m too tired and too hungry to wait
the 15 minutes for the eggs to boil.”
Inspiration! She called the house phone number, and David answered. Lynne
asked him if he would put three eggs on to boil, then turn off the burner and
cover them. This he did and, when Lynne
got home, all she had to do was peel the eggs and make egg salad. By this time, Nicole and several others were
in the kitchen and heard Lynne thanking David profusely (between bites, of
course) for helping her out like that.
It had made a big difference in the comfort of her day.
The next evening,
around 7:30, Nicole sent an email to the house list. She had been doing a FoodMore, followed by helping
Marilyn with some stuff, followed by hiking in the hills with the dogs that
live in the house. An extremely gratifying
and nonetheless long day. Possibly
inspired by Lynne’s experience from the day before, she asked in her email if
anyone in the house could put on some rice for her and cook her some stir-fry
so she could simply sit down to dinner when she got home. David enthusiastically volunteered to make
the rice, but said he would need instructions regarding how to do it. This attitude galvanized others. Rebecca asked Rocco if he, being an old hand
it, would make the rice. Lynne, who had
just arrived in the kitchen, heard what was going on and starting pulling
veggies out of the fridge to make the stir-fry.
Rebecca volunteered to wash and cut the kale. Lynne made a delicious stir-fry, and Nicole
was very, very happy when she got home.
I was just so
delighted by these tales of teamwork that I had to let y’all know about them.
Thanks for
reading!
Best Regards,
Gerry
Gerry
“If there is an
absolute truth of any kind, it is that all of life is love. And you're either
happy or unhappy depending on how well you can handle loving and being loved.
That's the only absolute that we know.”
-- Vic Baranco
-- Vic Baranco