A few days ago, I found a bargain. I was at Trader Joe’s grocery store. White eggs were over seven dollars a dozen, but brown eggs were $3.49 a dozen (limited to one dozen per customer). I jumped on that (not literally) even at that price, of course. Eggs are one of my favorite foods--soft boiled, fried, poached, scrambled--I like them all, except for the current cost. They are an ideal complete protein. They have even been revised nutritionally in regard to cholesterol dangers.
This time of year I have such good memories of coloring eggs for Easter. It is a fond childhood recollection. I remember with delight decorating the eggs for Easter with my daughters. It felt like a rite of Spring. Eggs even have religious symbolism across many traditions. One of my students gave me an Easter egg with the white and yolk blown out and the shell decorated in the intricate Eastern Orthodox tradition. It is a fragile delicate thing, empty like the tomb of Jesus, a beautiful symbol of the resurrection. We hang it on the Christmas tree to remember Jesus’ birth, life, teaching, death, and resurrection. It is another reminder of his continuing presence.