the zen of grapefruit

i got a big crate of grapefruits from a fundraiser at church. they are wonderfully sweet and delicious. i noticed this morning as i ate mine that it forced me to focus on what i was doing. i find it difficult to eat grapefruit and read at the same time, or check my e-mail. the process of scooping out each section with my serrated spoon demands my whole attention. i realized that maybe eating grapefruit could be a mindfulness meditation exercise. you can’t really “hurry up and eat” a grapefruit. you can’t grab one to eat in the car. plus, if you’re at all compulsive like me, you can take pleasure in scraping out every bit of the pulp and then squeezing out all of the leftover juice. you can choose whether you want to eat the sections one right after the other, or eat every other section the first time around and the second time around finish off all of the “odd” sections. you can choose whether you want to dig out the easy stuff first and then go back for the bits that stuck to the edges, or clean each section all the way to the pith as you go along. you can even choose whether you’d like to eat the grapefruit like an orange and forego the spoon altogether! anyone else have a favorite grapefruit zen method?