As Big As Your Ear
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Willow is an inquisitive little girl. She smiles big and asks big questions. One day I saw her totally occupied with duck eggs on a pile of hay and twigs on the ground. She was trying to separate the big ones from the smaller ones. I said, Hmmmmm you like eggs, do you? She said, yeah with that signature big smile. I stooped down and said, I will tell you a secret. Her eyes lit and momentarily left her gaze from the eggs to look up at me. What? I said, These eggs are delicious, right? But the best tasting egg you can find is the one that is as big as your ear. (I made this up of course.)
One by one, she grabbed an egg and hold it against her ear, then looked at me for approval. Actually all the eggs were almost as big, but when she came to the last one, I said, That’s it, it is just as big as your ear. She shrieked in delight and I left her to tend to my chore gathering logs with the others.
After a while, Riza asked me to come to the kitchen. And Willow was there munching on her secret find - a hard boiled egg, and she was enjoying every single bite. All of us gathered in quiet amusement while she tells the story of how she found the best tasting egg in the world, and that she will not tell exactly how. She looked at me and winked, It’s a secret, she said.
