space to breathe

One of the best parts of having a blog, in my opinion, is being able to check five million times a day how many people are reading it, from whence they came, and what they are looking for. I have also long been very interested in googling and the funny things that people google to avoid: doing work, writing papers, talking to their loved ones. I, myself, google very strange things all the time, just to see what will come up.

So today, imagine my delight when I logged into my blog stats only to find that someone had gotten to my blog by googling “what happens when marzipan has air space”. And this seemed particularly pertinent today because as I had just been driving home, I had been thinking to myself how wonderful it was to have so much space to move around on a beautiful day like today, without anyone in my life hindering my ability to breathe or make me feel like I need to shrink back to protect myself.

So then I found myself thinking, what DOES happen to marzipan when it is given enough space and enough time to think and breathe. The candy, I know from personal experience, will dry out and crack, quickly no longer the delicious treat that it once was. This marzipan, however, is reveling today in that fact that she is being completely honest with those around her, and it feels like some sort of reward that her relationships are now in working order with very little life-sucking happening. Because believe me, I am the type of person that if there is a life-sucker within a ten mile radius they some how find me, saddle up beside me, and I claim them almost immediately as kin. But it’s all part of the process I suppose, and today I am so so grateful for my space.

Today I feel like madeleine. Find her and her friends at Eugene and Louise Bakery.