i worked at a tex-mex restaurant up in litchfield. i was a busgirl, and my mother was a waitress. i remember one of my first nights working there;i was having some difficulty. it was during the dinner rush, and i couldn't get the food to the customers at the bar fast enough so the bartender picked up my slack. at one point i was bagging a delivery ( Read more... )

the epiphanies roll in like san francisco's fog; on a startlingly regular basis, and with a cold chill. i've adopted a new schedule for the past two months. i wake up unnecessarily early, pack a bowl if i'm lucky and read the news. then i rummage through craigslist, sending out my resume to every job that i am physically able to do. i long ago ( Read more... )

i've lived in a house, rarely gone hungry, and learned the value of sanctuary and working hard ( Read more... )

i think there are some universal hurdles on the path to friendship, cooperation, and Truth. we need to discuss who we are, how we see each other, what we need, what we desire, what we think of the desires of others, and what we're willing to do to accomplish all the dreams involved. we are in the very unique situation of being a group of thoughtful ( Read more... )

when we got to the funeral home, i leaned down to speak to my great aunt joan. her husband of over sixty years, dominic, had a stroke and died. while joan accompanied dom to the hospital, she too had a stroke in the ambulance. she was incredibly sharp for everything she'd just gone through. she didn't look sad, only slightly dazed by all the ( Read more... )

"the first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, "this is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. from how many crimes, wars and murder, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, ( Read more... )

dear max ( Read more... )

this is something i wrote on the board...it's the first "writing" i've attempted in months ( Read more... )

"long experience has taught us that it is dangerous in the interest of truth to suppress opinions and ideas; it has further taught us that it is foolish to imagine that we can do so. it is far easier to meet an evil in the open and defeat it in fair combat in people's minds, than to drive it underground and have no hold on it or proper approach to ( Read more... )

Thank you all so much for your positive energy! Things are happening swiftly and it's because this project is fueled by passion. I'd always dreamed of opening a cafe but never thought it was something I could ever really do. I had resigned myself to being a life-long barista in other people's cafes ( Read more... )