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Saturday in the city
At Lucky’s Cafe in Tremont this morning to meet my friend Joe, Morgan the owner stopped by the table and remarked to me, “For someone who lives in North Carolina, you’re in here a lot."
On my way out, Joe introduced me to the filmmakers of the mockumentary Filmic Achievement.
In the Aloha State, there’s an expression — “Lucky you live Hawaii”. Today, I’m feeling fortunate to have friends and family in Cleveland, even if I’ve chosen to continue making North Carolina my home.
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Sent this to you in an email yesterday, then realized in the spirit of blogging, it ought to be put here… (Apologies for the length.)
Hey Anton,
Drifting at the desk at work today between projects and ended up on mistersugar.com catching up on a month’s worth of posts. Fun to read about Lucky’s Cafe and more about the big news for you and Erin to stay put in Durham and have it all work out. Good stuff. Very happy for you both, and the girls, too, of course.
More though, wanted to comment on the overall effect of reading your blog. I clicked my way to your essay about grandfathers and grace in writing and thought of a French film I saw recently. A big market film starring Daniel Auteil called My Best Friend, which despite a kind of comedy light style actually had some profound moments and message. He befriends a cab driver who is a very complex guy but who treats people with respect and kindness. Repeats the old mantra: Smile and the world smiles with you. You do much more than that on your blog, of course, but the point is it is putting to action the idea of a connected life embracing shared humanity.
Now I think of my train commute this morning and the tension. One woman before exit – continuing an exchange that must have happened while boarding a few stops before me, more than an hour before – leaned over a woman and said: “Hey, you talk like that to the wrong person one of these times and you’re going to find yourself hurt. F—- off!” They were both about 50. Then walking out of North Station some young guy coming toward me with friends is saying “No f——— way. Uh-uh. No f——— way.” And I’m thinking how easy it is to give over to isolation and anger and how cool it is when we can break through that and focus on the good. The substance. The exchange. And you do that in heaps online everyday, so thanks for sharing. Not to mention that you make me hungry and thirsty with all this talk of 3 Cups and 6 Plates and such… :)
Cheers,
— Tom Nov 28, 03:37 PM #Tom
Anton, thanks for introducing me to Lucky’s this summer. Good sandwich, strong coffee.
— (another) Tom Nov 29, 05:48 PM #