The Heel of the Bread

Black-Backed Jackal ~ Jasper
Will Be For Sale at the Shorty’s Garden of Arts Sale July 12th

You know that feeling you get when you go to make a sandwich and the heel is the only bread you have left from the loaf? I’m sure you do because, despite what my grandma will tell you, the heel is NOT the best part of the bread. Sooner or later you must come to the end of the loaf. You know the inevitable is coming but that doesn’t make swallowing the dry crust any easier. So what do you do about it?

Unfortunately this feeling of disappointment is not confined to facing the heel of the bread. The feeling resurfaces in seemingly every aspect of life. When life gives you lemons it’s a prime time to make lemonade but what do you do when life gives you the heel of the bread?

While we mull this question over, I just have to say that I don’t harbor any negative feelings when I het the heel from one of the rocks Grandpa slices. Grandpa can’t use the end piece if the rock because they often too fragile and fractured to make jewelry. The value of the end piece isn’t discovered in creating beautiful necklaces, but in painting beautiful pictures. Is this the case with our heel of bread too?