Following last week’s chilled-finger ride to Sterling Roasters on NW 21st, we chose another NW 21st destination for another brisk ride, though today it was an iota warmer.  And this time we detoured to visit G’s inner NE starter home from 25 years ago, which thankfully was saved from demolition by two cultural/historic non-profits who purchased+moved it to a vacant lot 125 feet to the east. G wondered if its paranormal aura had something to do with its extended life.

Queue Coffee at the corner of NW Quimby and 21st stands apart, we believe, from other new construction shops both in its number of soft-chair+ couch options, and how well it is integrated with the adjoining residential lobby via a regular doorway plus a lifting drop-down garage-type separator.   The result is that the space feels much larger and visually interesting with the separator up,  and the lobby seat options simply make it more comfortable for hanging out, which is our reason d’etre.  We believe that too many of the new construction/rehab sites feel a bit institutional with seats/tables in tight rows as the owners prefer quick table turnovers.  Queue feel like it its design hit a home run.

The jumping off point for today’s discussion was a recent Dave Leonhardt piece which asserts that the view of most Americans being socially liberal and fiscally conservative was actually backwards.   Leonhardt did acknowledge that how a surveyor asked the question was instrumental in the answer he/she received, ….. and he still believes that a majority of Americans  prayed daily, approved of abortions only in limited circumstances, and were very concerned with illegal immigration.  Topics we then covered included: how does one define praying daily and whether the Buddhist regimens that two members follow qualify; why are we seeing in the activist non-profits that we belong to mostly boomers and a smattering of 20-somethings, but almost no millennials; how millennials seem to be overly burdened by school debt and whether that might limit their involvement;  how President Trump may be a dumb ass in most aspects of his presidency, but is a genius with regard to the media as his head is still above water despite myriad snafus; and speaking of geniuses, how cinematically masterful  Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma is.

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