Sunday, March 28, 2004


regional coffee culture, part xxii cont'd or divine nimbus

re: yesterday, i get an email with this link to an article about the "coffee guys" that explains more about who they are, and how they form a core social nucleus in their little rural town.

somebody (hint, hint) ought to send these guys some specialty coffee. because let's face it, they are another branch of the scaa consumer member audience.

i dream of a day when i could win the lottery and fly some of these lovely coffee fans to an scaa conference. because coffee is truly central to their life; yet they have still not come to the awareness of what our favorite passionate beverage actually means to them.

i would love to be there for the moment they realize the larger coffee picture. that would be incredible.

the last two days here in new york have been flat-out may, early summer, just amazing weather. i was wandering up university st. in manhattan from my hairdresser yesterday looking at all the life and variety that hits union square on a beautiful saturday afternoon.

some days new york is unbearably attractive; everyone is unspeakably beautiful; and the light permeates all things. yesterday in union square was one of those days.

i wandered into universal news in search of a copy of namarupa to buy as a gift for a fellow yogi, but alas couldn't find one. i never have the coffee there -- it's undrinkable, which is a shame -- but again i just basked in the purest walt whitman moment of delighting in humanity.

and what was humanity doing, everywhere i went? drinking coffee! the students in union square carried their vanilla venti lattes from the mermaid. the artists and bohemians in universal news drank theirs in thick white cups as they held tenaciously onto their retro po-mo table space.

does whitman ever mention coffee? happiness and raspberries, indeed! (an interesting aside: you realize don't you that in that time period and at that location, he very probably could have been drinking don schoenholt's gillies coffee?)

the very electricity he felt around every human being is only intensified by it. . . .(ok i know that's not the link you were expecting! here's the one you thought i meant. . .)

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