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Today I was making pizza for dinner! My daughter noticed me taking the dough out of my bread machine and wanted to help. She stood next to me as I divided the dough into two balls, and weighed each to make them equal. As the tiny one she is, she wanted to go all in and make the huge disks out of those small dough balls immediatelly, but the dough twarted her. You see, gluten is a strange thing. It is composed of two proteins, gliadin and glutanin that exist in the flour as seperate entities, until one adds water. After one completes the process of mixing the dough, kneading and resting times allows the proteins to interlock into gluten! Anyway, I needed the short explanation to illustrate that it is because gluten that dough can be shaped and stretched.

Shaping a boule is easy, one makes a ball of the dough and tightens it so the bread can retain it's shape. But pizza is a DISK of dough. And it is near impossible to stretch it completely in one go. My daughter wishes it were and every time I admonish her with a "GIRL! LET IT REST!!!!"

Because if you try to stretch the dough too quickly it tears. And here comes the "wisdom" I shared with my daughter:
"Pizzas are like people! If you force them too hard they snap back. Let the dough, and others relax and expand."

It's a cheesy analogy (omg get it???) But you know, I love cliches. I will happily compare pizza dough to the meaning of human interactions, etc.

If you have made it this far into this odd foray into philosopy, I thank you and I hope you too sometimes have fun copmaring the human condition to inanimate objects.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
– Lao Tzu