Stacks Coffeehouse on N. Killingsworth also serves as a Community Library whose shelves are filled to the ceiling with books for loan.  Attracted to outside-the-box efforts that build community, we admired the efforts the owners undertook to donate their collection of literature and install shelves.  One downside of of the Stacks is the limited options they have for seating patrons; what seat-style they’ve chosen is sturdy, but there aren’t any soft seat options for those needing something more comfortable.

Discussion-wise, DS brought us up to date on his son J’s trip with 10 other law students to the border to tutor asylum seekers on how best to answer immigration questions; rather than say one’s family was being terrorized by one of the gangs, a more effective answer would be to say that they’re religious and their faith does not sanction violence.   His other son – who is studying to become a physician’s assistant – was impressed by the new cancer regimen of patient-specific prescriptions that take into account each individual’s genome.  That somehow led to M’s tales of witch doctor ceremonies and the practice of killing an animal to best determine a sickened person’s affliction in rural Peru, and the 18 hour hallucenagenic trip he once experienced there from a cactus plant.  And H relayed that though his 15 K Shamrock time was just 9 seconds slower than last year, in his 70-74 year-old age group he slipped from 3rd out of 8th to 9th out of 12th due to a rash of sub 10 minute/mile 70 year-olds who joined the age group this year.  He realizes another top 3 result isn’t in the cards until he moves up to the 75-79 group, (if he makes it that far.)

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