Salad Bowl Day

This was my first full day back from my week as a ‘soccer mom’, and I went back to my normal routine of purchasing and preparing meals, working in the garden, arranging rides for persons in need, and organizing nonviolent resistance.

Up early this morning to pick up food from SHARE, a nonprofit food buying club, I discovered what to make for dinner tonight. With my organic fruits, vegetables and meat from Share was a bag of small pieces of fully cooked chicken that I had ordered. The bag said it was ‘salad chicken’. At first I put the chicken pieces in the freezer but after picking cherry tomatoes, lettuce and other greens from our garden, I realized that the ingredients for a delicious dinner were present. So tonight I made a Caesar Chicken Salad. For a vegetable side dish I cooked up some of Kale that I had picked today. Every time I make a salad it is different, but they always seem to be delicious and enjoyed by all. We already had some homemade Pita bread from the local Middle East store so our dinner was complete.

The salad touched most of the bases of my daily life these days. Naturally there were the ingredients from the garden. The salad had feta cheese and olives, two ingredients in it — along with homemade salad dressing with olive oil and the pita bread — adding a reminder of the nonviolent resistance of the Palestinian people. Perhaps there was nothing from my ‘driving ministry’ in the salad that was obvious, but if I probed the salad deeper I probably could find something.

Some years ago on a posting on the Diary of the Worm I wrote an observation about my salad bowl friends. I guess today’s salad was a good symbol of my everyday life.

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