A good morning for coffee & breakfast with a side of social criticism. Finished James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. Beautiful - an excellent example of compassionate, universal art. It's about civil rights, yes, but largely, deeply, it deals with the importance of embracing difficult truths about our lives and cultivating love & empathy for others, despite all qualifying differences.Â
1 over-easy egg, with black truffle salt and pepper.Â
1 p black rice bread with 2 TBS Just Great Stuff, topped with blueberries and unsweetened coconut shreds.Â
1/2 Grapefruit grilled with cinnamon, fresh grated ginger, drizzle of agave, and coconut oil.Â
Cappuccino made with NYC Cafe Grumpy's Heartbreaker espresso beans, with cinnamon and nutmeg.Â
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorable rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death - ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us." (91)
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