Li Sam :: What’s for lunch?

Tuesday February 3^rd 2009: Out of curiosity yet another stupid idea had crossed my mind, and as such I knew Marianne would fall for it flat. Absolutely forbidden and beyond a decent thing to do, at least at this time a day. But even so, an irresistible though. This about food; you eat because you’re hungry, right? You need food to live I once thought and started to wonder? The meaning of life; what for? Okay I had seen the movie and heard all those deep thinking thoughts that all sounded the same expressed in a language not possible to understand. Not for me anyway.

Life may be pleasant in every way till you discover that there are extensions. The route to happiness expands as you discover life and if you don’t stop up, like being satisfied, there are no dead ends and the route network you create for you and your partner can take you anywhere. Well, Marianne and I have discovered this little island and after several years now being satisfied with their fresh fish, lobster and almost everything they can offer, there was this small detail about oysters. I had seen them in a basket lowered down in a tank with live crabs and lobsters many times before and just a couple a days before I tried two out of curiosity and that did it.

So why not? Lunch, definitely, and the intention was not to feed us really, there was something else I and Marianne just had to do. Having bought a full bottle of champagne the day before we now entered the stairs down to town and then direct to the fishmongers. We wanted OYSTERS and after twenty minutes doing some additional shopping, we returned and got our oysters opened and prepared for us. The clock was about ten to two and we hurried back to the apartment. Lunch for two with a panorama view over the harbor with sun and all, we served ourselves oyster and champagne.

That lunch was not meant for our stomachs, that lunch was meant for our souls. Champagne can of course make you giggly and sort of happy and all that, but this lunch happiness will last. You may become old and forget about things, but our bodies remember these kinds of moments the emotional way.

You don’t eat a lunch like this alone, you need to share it with someone. You need to share it with someone you love, a person you can bring along on your path and at the same time a person you can follow. Marianne and I, even if we are the same gender today, we love being together doing these small silly things. A lunch like this expands our horizon and we see openings everywhere. We never let it go that far that we run out of options, these kind of small investments last long and we can’t live without them.

Life for us has changed completely, ripping of every bond there could be, but not quite all. When things were at its worse, all those kind of odd moments we had shared together made us stay together and to this day we don’t regret a moment of it. The lunch Marianne and I shared today with oysters and champagne, once again confirmed that.

So, never make a lunch short in any respects. A lunch can be much more than just food and eating.

Many hugs,

Li and Marianne

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Re: What’s for lunch?

by Jacqui on Tue 03 Feb 2009 10:46 PM CET | Profile | Permanent Link

I often think that unexpected great lunches are one of life's great gifts. You can't plan them, you can't force them, they just happen and they stay with you for a long long time.

Re: Re: What’s for lunch?

by Shelly on Fri 06 Feb 2009 07:05 PM CET | Profile | Permanent Link

I've had wonderful unexpected lunches with both of you (which I think makes this post very odd indeed). Jacqui I remember that funny lunch in Shepherdstown WV with Jess when the boys left the table - I don't remember what we ate but that we were a little too loud and really had fun. Li I will always remember our lunch in the pub down by the water in Guernsey, I don't even know why. Now you two have me getting all sappy over lunches!

Re: What’s for lunch?

by Li Sam on Sun 08 Feb 2009 12:50 AM CET | Profile | Permanent Link

Hi Jacqui, and Shelly of course,
Many times when Marianne and I are out like this, we don’t plan too much and that way, if you are open-minded, things like this happen. And I agree, these occasions are a gift, but you need to let it happen. Many people can’t see the possibility in things like this happening and therefore they don’t search and try to find them, and that’s a bit sad I think. I guess we three have good experiences of lunches (bad once, let’s scarp them) and I say “Why not make good lunch experiences a habit”, I think Shelly and I will do that in Charlottesville at the VABook festival in March.

I also remember that lunch we had in Guernsey Shelly and it was a great lunch, and the best thing about it was that we didn’t need to know why; it’s the feeling that counts.

- Li