Diary 251

Tuesday, November 24th

I’m thrilled to announce that our local Diner has reached its gofundme goal, and that it’ll stay open for the foreseeable future. It’s not just that I know the place well, it’s that the Diner is a place where all kinds of people meet. On any pre-Covid day, in that convivial atmosphere one could see the Armenian high school kids, the techies from the insurance company, the nurses, the Russian guys from the car body shop, and everyone in between. It was a place where we all went, and as such it was a community-builder. For how can we be a community if we can’t see the other people who live around us, meet them on neutral territory, and see that they’re folks just like us?

It’s still serving food, although only within the Covid restrictions, but it still fulfills its role.

Places like our Diner, like ten thousand other small restaurants, are places that build human fellowship and break down any of the prejudices that come from isolation.

Other news?  Some guy called trump seems to be admitting that he lost the election.