Coffee Shop Conversations
Kris Atomic Who is with me when I say, " I MISS COFFEE SHOPS." I miss the connections, the conversations,the meeting new friends,meeting for a meeting. I am an introvert by nature and being a wall flower in a coffee shop allows me connections without speaking. I sit in a corner. I see peoples lives before me. That man looks like a surgeon, that one looks like a manager, that lady with the three kids looks like she needs a jolt of caffeine fast before her kids get yelled at for her patience wearing thin. Coffee shops connect us, be it only for a short time, but they do. They are our third place. The place where we feel safe. The place where we come together as a community, but we each go out separate way. Covid, in its length, has forced new normals. It has forced us to change how we interact. We have zoom meetings with everyone with business up top and Pj's on bottom. We now visit our loved ones from the curbs. We talk through doors, screens, and everything else at a s...