Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Conversations

Monday I ate breakfast with my friend Barbara. She’s expending all her energies caring for her grown daughter who’s battling cancer.

For three hours we talked about prayer and the joy of the Lord.

Then I ate a pizza lunch with my friend Wes.

For three hours we talked about job related problems.

Those two meals pretty much killed my day—Who needs to work anyhow? I’m keeping my priorities straight.

Saturday evening was the first chance Ginny and I have had to dine at home alone in ages; our whirling social calendar keeps us busy.

As we cleared the table afterwards, I stood by the sink rinsing dishes; she stood at the counter putting the last stick of margarine in the butter dish.

She noticed that the margarine carton had a coupon printed inside, so she took her scissors to clip the dollar-off coupon. She read the label on the carton as she did so.

“Oh,” she said, “It says here that margarine is a good source of Omega Three. I didn’t know that”.

“What’s Omega Three,” I asked/

“It’s a fatty acid that’s good for your heart. I thought it mostly came from fish,” she said.

“It’s not healthy to eat Omega Three, until you’ve eaten Omega One and Omega Two first,” I informed her.

“What”?

“Yes. That’s a dietary law. You have to eat Omega One and Two before you can eat Omega Three. That’s in Leviticus or Deuteronomy”.

“That’s crazy. Omega Three comes from fish oil,” she said.

“The best source of Omega Three comes from communion bread,” I told her.

“From What”!

“Communion bread. You know, those little white wafers they give at church for the Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper”.

“Where in the world did you hear a thing like that,” Ginny said.

“It’s in the Bible; Jesus said, ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega…’”

That’s not the sort of joke you want to pull on a religious woman who has scissors in her hand.

In other news:

According to a New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper article this morning, Ann Williamson, the director of social services in Louisiana, has been forced out of office because of complaints by evacuees she did not have portable showers set up for hurricane victims till a whole three days after Hurricane Gustav.

Here’s an AP photo from Texas yesterday showing conditions three days after their hurricane.

Where should we set up those portable showers?