Away from my desk at a favorite hangout - Ashland
07Feb2007 04:58 PM Musings
I'm
sitting in the deli section of the
Ashland Food
Co-op, where I
frequently make a weekly pilgrimage for groceries.
Only tonight, rather than moseying through the
beets and bananas, I'm sitting on a wooden slatted
chair with my trusty PowerBook here perched on a
little round table with a brushed metallic finish
(adorned with hundreds of little "scientific
jewelry" disks as they used to be called). I'm
making good use of my time to finish an outline
for a proposal I will deliver with a new friend
this weekend (it's quite exciting, details to
follow!) to a local board of directors about an
idea whose time has come. Meanwhile, I'm savoring
the ambience of congenial folks pushing grocery
carts around the aisles of mostly organic bounty,
a handful of deli patrons, and the rather sporadic
intercom voice requesting "grocery, line one".
Meanwhile, just outside the window, a few folks
browse around the always-full 4-sided kiosk with
an assortment of flyers about events primarily
about raising consciousness about one facet of
life or another. Another young woman, probably a
student at Southern Oregon
University, eats something
from a white cardboard deli container while
perusing the funny page, and two other guys at
different tables exhibit similar activity; the
headline of one paper reading "Pushing on without
mom brought healing"... a little vignette of the
cafe vibe of our local co-op, which just announced
plans to expand into Medford soon. I think I come
here to shop as much for the kindred spirit
community of the place as I do for the quality of
the nourishment I take with me.
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