Working with the heart is like working with bread dough, a firm but gentle hand is needed to get anywhere worthwhile. And sometimes, even if your flour is right, even if your water is right, you still end up with dough that wont hold itself together. Adding more water will just make it sticky and adding more flour will just make it tough. Basically, insisting on working it further will just get you a mess. Perhaps its the hands that need flouring... Or perhaps the dough just needs to rest. Every baker understands that something in the heart of the dough needs to grow before it can be worked, else the dough will be heavy, if its even workable enough. I guess its time for me to switch dreams. From being the Dragonmaster of Burke, Ill be the Masterbaker of Burke (no, it hasnt been mentioned in the movie, but since Im such an assumptionista, might as well). Ill just wrap up my dough and let it be. I have no idea how long itll take before I can begin again, but I suppose theres nothing off about checking out how things are every once in a while. I believe in what Im doing, in the loving labor of a warm, filling loaf to feed my hungry heart. But some things just cant be rushed. So let me just step back, dust myself off and do something else while my dough is resting. Maybe ill go grab me some junkfood while I wait. This could take a while. (Authors Notellya: Oh dearie-my, I must say that I expected something more dramatic. Along the lines of suddenly, my chest felt shot through with veins of cold lead radiating from a lump of ice where my heart used to be. My inner drama queen insists on moonlighting as a tragic paladin since all Ive always been the last man standing in a every lost cause as per my track record. But then again, no airtime for mega-nega-mama-drama. The MasterBaker perspective sounds more empowering.) #MejoDramatic #ImABigBoyNow
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:09:47 +0000
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