SO! I went “outside my circle” today and did something different, and was about to blog about “if you do what you always do, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten” … but as I started to write, I had this funny feeling that I’d written about that before, and sure enough, I’d blogged about it almost exactly a year ago.
Now, I was outside of my circle today because of Lent – it’s Ash Wednesday, and I decided to drag myself out to an Ash Wednesday service at the church I got married at, Saint Peter’s Episcopal (the “rapture-ready” church on Hudson Road, complete with to-go box handle on top). That put me in a different physical location than normal, but it took God sending me a firetruck parked in front of one of the restaurants I would have normally fallen back to before I tried a new place – the Lost Cajun, itself part of a chain I’d been to before, but for some reason I ordered something different than normal, and got the amazing blackened catfish dish above which was far better than the things I’d previously tried there.
And, weirdly, my previous “if you do what you always do” post was also right around the start of Lent. So I wonder if there’s something about the spiritual earthquake that Lent is supposed to inspire that also had sent me climbing out of ruts and seeking new experiences a year ago – or, whether that experience left echoes of memory that prompted me to try the same thing again this year.
Who knows? It was a good dish of fish.
-the Centaur
Pictured: um, I said it already.
