When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Wednesday, August 06, 2003
From the Home & Garden section of the New York Times (dated Aug. 7, 2003)
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Gather 'round the coffee pot, boys
From the Home & Garden section of the New York Times (dated Aug. 7, 2003)
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP between home and a good cup of coffee? On first reckoning, coffee (or tea) organizes space and movement; in the brewing of a serviceable cup, a house becomes a home.
Yet there is also a public way that coffee shapes the sense of home, even from down the block. If you sketched the foot traffic around a cup of espresso, for example, you might see the pattern of intersecting lines that Jane Jacobs described in her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
To Ms. Jacobs, the number of opportunities people have to cross paths with their neighbors correspond with the quality of life in the neighborhood. A good coffeehouse, like a friendly restaurant or a neighborhood shop, brings together lines that might not otherwise cross. These lines transmit the vital information of a community — what's the best preschool, whose son is dealing drugs on the corner — into the homes where it has weight.
Add a froth of crema, and you are in business.
Palema
8:44 PM
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