04/13/2025
How often do you look at a package of defrosted bacon and in an instant understand the meaning of life?
Never?
Most likely if you are a normal person, with a normal brain… the answer is:
“No, Kev. Never.” 😉
But to my deeply dyslexic brain and my heart that (for better or worse) must make everything mean something; this defrosted, uncooked, bacon revealed a lesson that I needed to not only comprehend intellectually, but one that I was being invited to embody.
You see, my beautiful Chef husband had pulled this bacon out the night before. It had transformed from something cold and hard to meat that was soft, and tender to the touch.
No longer frozen, but not yet warm…
It held the potential to become hot, crispy, bacon that could fill the apartment with that unparalleled Sunday morning fragrance, especially when paired with a fresh pot of coffee…divine.
Yet, there it sat.
In that split moment, I had the feeling that you only get when you come home for the first time after losing a loved one.
You see their empty shoes, their water bowl, or favorite toy…
You smell them and feel their presence still lingering in the air, but the ability to hold them, to tell them how much you love them, to make bacon with and for them.
Is gone.
For those of you wondering, my husband is alive and well...
My words aren’t meant to be about processing grief, but instead about living more fully while we are here.
While we are awake, and capable of being fully ALIVE.
And so, fridge door wide open, deep in thought, the meaning of life was revealed…
To remain present and aware of this one, precious and fleeting experience here on earth that will be over before we know it.
YOU are here and can still “cook the bacon!”
What a gift… truly.
One to never be taken for granted.
Whatever may be bogging you down right now, please know that it will pass.
This will ALL pass.
That is the only thing I know for sure.
And to live into this truth is everything.
With the BIGGEST love, from the most profound place in my feeling heart, I wish you a warm Sunday filled with moments that spark inspiration and ignite peace.
Love you,
Kev
