It’s always welcoming. And very welcome. It is, as you might have surmised, a good cup of coffee.
The where in this case? Turns out to be a small quirky shop on Lexington. Not just quirky but with a quirky name.
Peaky Barista turns out to be a 3 location family-owned mini-chain about town.
The name apparently connects to the caps on display (and for sale). I always associated them with cab drivers back in the day.
Maybe I will wear one from my own collection of peaked caps on a future visit.
Would a flush toilet be considered a modern amenity? A 2400-year-old toilet was excavated in China recently. There is evidence of even earlier such luxuries dating back 4000 years in India.
One woosh and sewage is swooshed away.
The use of tools to gather or hunt may seem like the accomplishment of an advanced society. That makes it all the more interesting that otters use tools to, for instance, crack mollusks.
It’s the diversity of the animal and for that matter the floral and vegetal, kingdom that has me agape. I am wonderstruck by all that the oceans and lands have to offer. Adaptive evolution is a genuinely hard concept.
I may never grasp the full history of earth’s flora and fauna but its tidbits are awe-inspiring.
That history keeps evolving. Just grab snippets from Nat Geo to see new facts about humanity and our cohorts as they emerge. For me, that’s why not being able to sort it all out is a kind of progress.
Today two presidents are in my thoughts. Both represent the good perhaps even best impulses of our country.
Biden’s campaign motto to Build Back Better has been followed by a campaign to restore the nation’s infrastructure.
Today, President Biden joined Ukraine’s President Zelensky in a significant moment of solidarity.
He showed the Ukrainians our support for democracy by showing up in Kyiv this morning.
The other United States President in my thoughts is Jimmy Carter. He’s a gentleman who has literally been building America for some time through Habitat for Humanity.
This year Presidents Day is theirs!
“Celia Cruz to appear on the quarter” is an announcement that can trigger many reactions. Depending of course on your relationship to the singer and her legacy.
For me, the smile it brought was remembering the off-Broadway show [slash] concert Burt and I saw at New World Stages. We were so enamored of the music and the story that we went back to see it again. It played in alternating English and Spanish versions. We loved them both.
Is it geography or ethnicity or the foods we ate as youngsters that define us? Does our race or the habits of our family make us who we are?
As Americans, we have the propensity to redefine ourselves. This is a good.
The trait that allows us to rise above and beyond our expectations is just that one.
Things, our personal history, the circumstances that surround us, can be changed by perseverance. We can apply will and hope wherever it is needed.
We can find who we are. We are not defined by who you think we are.
That makes us unstoppable.
It’s become a thing to go out in punlic in our p.j.s- not just our sweats.
ET may well have to phone home but only if a UFO hasn’t blocked his signal.
Speaking of UFOs, the “cartoonist” in me envisions this: an alien real estate agent guides a group of alien clients through the earth’s atmosphere. “As you can see it’s a fixer-upper. The last owners really trashed the place.”
It’s World Hippo Day. Congrats to the hippopotamuses out there. Call me on Rhinoceros day (credit: Mr. Ionesco).
There’s a guarantee built into the Constitution of the United States that the newly constituted federation will pay any debts it had incurred before the founding of the Republic.
This clause brings to question why paying our duly acquired debts has become a near-yearly drama.
As Benny (Joseph Buloff) from Somebody Up There Likes Me says “pay the check.”
There are facts that ennoble the mind and those that simply amuse. The quarterly Laphams provides both enlightenment and embellishments.
In the latest edition, the riff on how to categorize tomatoes was charming. Who could have thought that this linguistic distinction was subject to a lawsuit?
Like much of American jurisprudence, this was about money. If it’s a fruit the merchant saves the tax on vegetables.
All The Best