The soup is turnip and yellow and bell pepper and barley and vegetable stock and three carrots, softened to succulence in a crockpot overnight

The coffee is from Sumatra, recommended by a magnificently tattooed artisan who makes bells as part of one of Arcosanti’s revenue streams

The coffee is in a mug that the maker calls “The Anarchy Cup,” inspired by a former co-worker who denounced all politicians

And is flavored with half&half and blue agave syrup recommended by an architect friend whose designs were incorporated into buildings made throughout the Valley of the Sun over forty-five years

The bowl of soup is gone but there’s more in the crockpot, cooling

Dessert is Whoppers with the coffee that helps the chocolate dissolve to uncover the malted-milk core

And the Whoppers remind the bachelor of going to the movies with his daughter, now estranged

It is a layered breakfast laced with memory and reminder

Unconventional unto weirdness

Richly satisfying