Dill Pickle Ranch Avocado Chipotle Chips

 Dill Pickle Ranch Avocado Chipotle Chips

 

I’m at the grocery store, wandering the aisles. I come here because I know where everything is. It’s always the same—except the prices! They change every day. I am bombarded and in a constant state of hyper-alert. A fight or flight reaction—except I want to burrow into a hole. Sink beneath the sea. Until, I see: a front-facing shiny bag of Dill Pickle Ranch Avocado Chipotle Chips. What does this even mean?! I break down each word, the imagined flavor sensation, and am overwhelmed by the endless possibilities. Each one more fabulous than the next. This is inspirational, aspirational, a reach for the stars, a rocket to Mars! Then, I question: Is this layered or blended, a mishmash like swamp soup, a taboo mixing of all the Play-Doh colors? Or will I, with each flavor, begin an adventure? Travel to the Southwest, south of the border, taste the sweet and sour, the stinging salt and biting bitter. There is so much more to life than complaining about prices! There’s avocados, there’s Ranch, the dill pickle, spicy hot chipotle. If less is more and more or less, then what is more plus more? A feeling of totality, completion, that one has arrived. This moment standing in the aisle as customers with overflowing carts log-jam around me, faced with a new and exciting world—will I extend my arm, take ahold of it, put it in my cart? Yes! And thank the Dill Pickle Ranch Avocado Chipotle Chips gods for the opportunity to once again experience the fullness of life.