We work long hours. We meet at meetings. We focus on things to be done. And then we are tired. We come home and sleep. Our social life, if it exists at all, is sporadic at best. I have found that breakfast is an excellent time  to get friends around, except those who sleep in and are night birds; I have quite a few of those friends who wake up only around lunch, having gone to bed around 3.00am or so!.

For me breakfast is easy; there is no need for involved preparations. A good cup of coffee ( and I make  excellent coffee!) is a sure winner and then there are the special breakfast that I make.  Ask my friends who have come to my home, chatted around my kitchen table and enjoyed, appam, puttu or pancake for breakfast.

I hadn’t done it for a while but this morning I was again reminded of the joy of getting friends together around a breakfast table. There is another thing about breakfast on a weekend - there is no rush to go off and do something. We linger and have yet another cup of coffee. There is delight in that lingering…

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