Community Corner
A Mother's Day Squiggle
I went into one of our Long Beach coffee houses Saturday, the day before Mother's Day. I met a mom and a squiggler.

No, the squiggler wasn’t the babe in her arms. It was a squiggle aficionado who practiced his art right there in Gentle Brew.
I chatted with him while he performed, and decided that you might like to hear about his art.
Then I spoke with a mom who held a baby and told her about the squiggler. As I spoke she smiled and the smile spread from her, to the barista, to me...and the squiggler.
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I’ve noticed that people are much more willing to interact in coffee houses than they are almost anywhere else in our fair town of Long Beach, NY. It’s a warming trend in coffee houses, kinda like a springtime in the Andes. You might want to catch a whiff of it here:
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Be well,
Leebythesea