The Easter Egg Roll. They hold it at the White House yearly. I’ve never witnessed this, in person or on TV. I’ve only heard mention of it on newscasts, and haven’t seen what the actual event looks like. I hope they have canceled it for this year.
Mostly, when I’ve caught a glimpse of any images, there are just a bunch of kids standing around whichever person is president. Everybody in their Easter duds.
But a few things struck me about this. First, I wonder which president was the most fun at these rolls. I have my guesses and it is NOT you-know-who. Although the bunnies mistake that orange color for one big freaking carrot. On the fun scale, though, I bet Jimmy Carter was a real hoot. And Gerald Ford would have been amusing because he was always falling down, and running into things. I bet he stepped on a whole bunch of pretty colored eggs, and possibly children.
The first annual White House Easter Egg Roll was held on April 22, 1878. This happened when President Rutherford B. Hayes decided to open the White House grounds on Easter Monday to kids who wanted to roll a few Easter eggs. And so it began.
The second thing I thought, was this might be a lot more fun if there were actually egg rolls available. You know. The kind you eat. All stuffed with pork, and cabbage, and such. If it were up to me, egg rolls would be a part of the Easter tradition. Everything Eggs. Egg rolls. Egg foo yung. Egg nog. Eggs over easy. Egg salad. Egg drop soup. Egg noodles. Quiche. If it doesn’t have eggs, it shouldn’t be on the menu. A new Easter practice.
And while we are switching things up. Maybe they should roll different things at the White House. Like bowling balls. Or dice. Everything there seems to be a real crapshoot anyway. Heck. Roll out the barrels or roll with the punches. The new ceremony could go a hundred different ways.
As we are finding out, sometimes we have to switch things up. Change the course. Our world is showing us that first hand, right this very minute. Times change, and we must change with them, or fall away. For those of us who like normalcy, consistency, routine, this can be a real challenge. But we learn as we go.
Rolling right along. Trying hard not to crack, like those wobbling eggs on the White House lawn. But also with this, I’m reminded of that boiling water lesson. If you throw those egg noodles in boiling water, they get soft. If you put eggs in that same boiling water, they get hard. The outcome all depends on what you’re made of.
Call me Old Noodle Head.
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy
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“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein
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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
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