The Pleasures of Civilization
Sep. 29th, 2006 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancinghorseThe "Green" part of me deplores the devolution of my little town into suburbia, and mourns the loss of the desert to row upon row of enormous and ugly cookie-cutter houses (priced five or six times higher than I could ever possibly afford...on little tiny bits of land that would fit into a corner of my riding arena).
But then there's the part that is damned glad to finally have Infrastructure.
Hence, the decadence of popping across from the post office for a latte at the little locally-owned cafe, noting that the brand-new Nico's has opened next to the PO (breakfast burritos are supposedly the best in town; I love breakfast burritos), and discovering via postcard in the mail that our local English tack shop, which has been located just a bit too far downtown for me to get to very often, at a bad intersection that is hell to get into and out of, is moving in a couple of weeks to the middle of my main drag--not far at all from the eastside State Line Tack (southeast corner of Speedway and Pantano for them as knows the area). This is a happy thing. I like to support the local talent if I possibly can (and yes, Nico's is a local chain). There's a Home Despot coming, and a supermarket, they say--after years of being 15 miles from the nearest (a mere 7 miles as of last year). All the comforts of home.
See me suffer from Liberal Guilt. See me enjoy my latte and contemplate a breakfast burrito in the near future.
But then there's the part that is damned glad to finally have Infrastructure.
Hence, the decadence of popping across from the post office for a latte at the little locally-owned cafe, noting that the brand-new Nico's has opened next to the PO (breakfast burritos are supposedly the best in town; I love breakfast burritos), and discovering via postcard in the mail that our local English tack shop, which has been located just a bit too far downtown for me to get to very often, at a bad intersection that is hell to get into and out of, is moving in a couple of weeks to the middle of my main drag--not far at all from the eastside State Line Tack (southeast corner of Speedway and Pantano for them as knows the area). This is a happy thing. I like to support the local talent if I possibly can (and yes, Nico's is a local chain). There's a Home Despot coming, and a supermarket, they say--after years of being 15 miles from the nearest (a mere 7 miles as of last year). All the comforts of home.
See me suffer from Liberal Guilt. See me enjoy my latte and contemplate a breakfast burrito in the near future.
