dancinghorse | The Pleasures of Civilization

The "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.