{"id":4866,"date":"2015-10-02T00:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T04:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2015-10-02T00:18:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T04:18:01","slug":"the-big-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4866","title":{"rendered":"The Big Cheese."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cheesssseeychucnk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Big Conundrum.\u00a0\u00a0 And you KNOW I have them.<\/p>\n

You see, today I learned the Secret to Life, and all Greater Enlightenment of Mind, Body, and Spirit.<\/p>\n

So.\u00a0 Do I write about THAT\u2026. or \u2026.\u00a0 do I write about Swiss Cheese?<\/p>\n

Okay. Swiss Cheese it is.<\/p>\n

Now.\u00a0 You would think Swiss Cheese would be from Switzerland.\u00a0 But alas.\u00a0 \u201cSwiss Cheese\u201d is basically the generic name in North America for several related varieties of cheese.\u00a0 The most of these are made right here in the good ol\u2019 USA.\u00a0 That and Canada.<\/p>\n

Our Swiss Cheese LOOKS like a particular kind of cheese from Switzerland. It is called Emmental.\u00a0 And Emmental is so VERY tasty.\u00a0 I can tell you that from personal experience.<\/p>\n

So why do we call our Swiss Cheese\u2026. \u201cSwiss Cheese?\u201d\u00a0 Well here is the little deal.\u00a0\u00a0 It is because of the distinctive appearance.\u00a0 Yes, those\u00a0 blocks of the cheese are riddled with holes known as “eyes”. Swiss cheese without eyes is known as “blind.\u201d\u00a0 For the Three Blind Mice, no doubt.<\/p>\n

But the Emmental(er) was the one to have the holes in the first place.<\/p>\n

And to solve a partial part of my conundrum, I will tell you this.\u00a0 Swiss Cheese is a lot like life.<\/p>\n

You can look at it one of two ways.\u00a0 You may think it is incomplete, or lacking, because of all the holes or gaps.\u00a0 Like somehow, you have been slighted, because there is so much missing from the block of cheese.<\/p>\n

OR\u2026 you can see it this way.\u00a0 That it is a glorious chunk of cheese\u2026 that is incredible robust in flavor and texture.\u00a0 It is solid, and comes in a beautiful shade of golden silkiness.\u00a0 Above all of that, it is versatile, and will go with so many different things\u2026 in any number of places.\u00a0 And yes, occasionally you will slice through one of the holes.\u00a0 You might be missing out on that little bit of cheese.\u00a0 But once you get past the hole, there is more excellent cheese just on the other side.<\/p>\n

So, every time we hit a big gaping hole in our lives\u2026 when our hearts are broken, or when we struggle with sadness or despair;\u00a0 when we face illness or hardship\u2026 we can hang on\u2026 and make it through that hole.\u00a0 Until once again\u2026 we can find that glorious cheese.<\/p>\n

And cut the cheese.
\nWhoops.\u00a0 Pardon me.<\/p>\n

I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.<\/strong><\/em>
\n— Joseph Campbell<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.<\/strong><\/em>
\n— Paul Kurtz<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big Conundrum.\u00a0\u00a0 And you KNOW I have them. You see, today I learned the Secret to Life, and all Greater Enlightenment of Mind, Body, and Spirit. So.\u00a0 Do I write about THAT\u2026. or \u2026.\u00a0 do I write about Swiss Cheese? Okay. Swiss Cheese it is. Now.\u00a0 You would think Swiss Cheese would be from Switzerland.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4871,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions\/4871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}