hope right now, just as I’m keeping this diner and this little town running, there’s someone in Ecuador or Ethiopia still running their family’s coffee plantation. That’s what it takes. People sticking around, doing the work.” “I suppose that’s how communities form in the wake of disasters. They find the purity of a role and choose to fill it. A life of simplicity and purpose, uncomplicated by…” “By all the bullshit of the old world.”
