ohyum, this week i was remembering and craving the café from moments i spent in melbourne and sydney. perhaps it is something of the other we crave instead…
couple of adjectives re: Venus in Sadge I burrowed from fun loving J.Cainer
Paola,
I agree.
Nature has cheated me by not giving me wings or at least my own plane..the luminaries Sun and Moon in Leo transiting my 9th and trine(ing) Venus & Mars in Sagittarius..I am a flightless bird with a huge sense of wanderlust!
Eric, I can almost smell the laden aroma of fresh ground coffee at Dominick’s.
Hi Kelly,
I don’t know why I am writing this exactly, but maybe I have seen this mechanism in action too many times by now.
We (and I speak for mysel of course, but also for a few other people I know) desire the *other* place, the *other* land, the *other* coffee also! And this desire is 100% true and legitimate and honest.
But guess what – on the other side, in Italy, in Paris, in Europe, there is somebody that with the same intensity is desiring *your* American land, place, maybe also coffee. And that desire is as well legitimate and honest and sincere and valid.
After much desiring and struggling I am now pretty sure that we desire and NEED the OTHER, the unusual one, the one that is different from the habit, the foreign, the stranger one )where ‘one’ is land, coffee, home, people, whatever). Because the ‘other’ one makes us grow, teaches us things, envelops us in a delicious layer of unknown that we adore and makes us feel alive. If not, how would you explain that we all desire the exact same things, mirroring one another, across the ocean?
This won’t ease your desire for Paris coffee at all, it’s just to say. 😉
At the first mention of Europe ie. Paris and good coffee, I am off on a cloud – starry eyed!!
Dominick is obsessed with good coffee. They know what they’re doing! The place has a very European feeling. I lived in cafes in Europe for nearly four years…
I was in LA several years ago for around 4 days. Being a coffee drinker, I was dismayed beyond belief to find Starbucks was the only readily available espresso in town. Melbourne (my city) is known for its cafe culture, it has a sprawl of cafeterias right from the heart of the CBD to the outer suburbs. That’s what we do, ever since the first cappuccino machine arrived here in the 1950’s with the Italian migration. I read somewhere that Melbourne is a Gemini city..which may help explain why we luxuriate a chat over a late’
So glad to see the same culture thrives in some parts of the US.
ohyum, this week i was remembering and craving the café from moments i spent in melbourne and sydney. perhaps it is something of the other we crave instead…
couple of adjectives re: Venus in Sadge I burrowed from fun loving J.Cainer
Paola,
I agree.
Nature has cheated me by not giving me wings or at least my own plane..the luminaries Sun and Moon in Leo transiting my 9th and trine(ing) Venus & Mars in Sagittarius..I am a flightless bird with a huge sense of wanderlust!
Eric, I can almost smell the laden aroma of fresh ground coffee at Dominick’s.
Hi Kelly,
I don’t know why I am writing this exactly, but maybe I have seen this mechanism in action too many times by now.
We (and I speak for mysel of course, but also for a few other people I know) desire the *other* place, the *other* land, the *other* coffee also! And this desire is 100% true and legitimate and honest.
But guess what – on the other side, in Italy, in Paris, in Europe, there is somebody that with the same intensity is desiring *your* American land, place, maybe also coffee. And that desire is as well legitimate and honest and sincere and valid.
After much desiring and struggling I am now pretty sure that we desire and NEED the OTHER, the unusual one, the one that is different from the habit, the foreign, the stranger one )where ‘one’ is land, coffee, home, people, whatever). Because the ‘other’ one makes us grow, teaches us things, envelops us in a delicious layer of unknown that we adore and makes us feel alive. If not, how would you explain that we all desire the exact same things, mirroring one another, across the ocean?
This won’t ease your desire for Paris coffee at all, it’s just to say. 😉
At the first mention of Europe ie. Paris and good coffee, I am off on a cloud – starry eyed!!
Dominick is obsessed with good coffee. They know what they’re doing! The place has a very European feeling. I lived in cafes in Europe for nearly four years…
I was in LA several years ago for around 4 days. Being a coffee drinker, I was dismayed beyond belief to find Starbucks was the only readily available espresso in town. Melbourne (my city) is known for its cafe culture, it has a sprawl of cafeterias right from the heart of the CBD to the outer suburbs. That’s what we do, ever since the first cappuccino machine arrived here in the 1950’s with the Italian migration. I read somewhere that Melbourne is a Gemini city..which may help explain why we luxuriate a chat over a late’
So glad to see the same culture thrives in some parts of the US.