Groundwork Coffee, an organic roaster from L.A., recently purchased two Tin Man Coffee outlets, one on NE Hawthorne/47th, the other downtown on SW 1st, (the latter closed on weekends.)  Thus four of us, accompanied by O, took off this overcast wintry morning for the shop on Hawthorne, and discovered it full of light with two windowed, sliding garage doors in a newly  constructed, multiple storied building.   The lines are clean, the woodwork is luscious, and there’s a variety of seating options.  All in all, this Groundwork outlet is a pleasant space in which to hang out.  Groundwork’s motto, btw, in Coffee, Tea, Community.

Unfortunately for our discussion, two riders had to leave early, and a lot of our discussion ended up being three-dimensional: the activities of O’s scouting troop, the Otters; H’s positive impressions of his January weeks in Colombia, especially Medellin; and how the emotional reactions of E’s boomer friends to the new President are noticeably different from his Generation X comrades.

4703 SE Hawthorne           https://local.yahoo.com/info-990204645684-groundwork-coffee-company-portland?stx=groundwork%20coffee&csz=Portland,%20OR&fr=lsrp