a place

i want to live in a place where you can order a vegan apple cranberry streusel topped pie and not be thought of as an anomaly/freak.  where people don't stumble at the like vegetarian and organic, and ask questions like, "oh... did it taste ok... i mean, like, was it like good..?" like i had just eaten dog brains.

i want to live in a place where chain restaurants are taboo, and mom and pop still own the local eateries and grocery stores.

i want to live in a place where bars are coffee shops by day and pubs by night.

i want to live in a place where you can pick strawberries and then make a pie that afternoon.

i want to live in a place where live music is impromptu and intimate.

i want to live in a place where the man is forgotten, and people have gone on with their lives, living in a place they created themselves, not inconsequentially structured by someone else. there is ownership, richness and pride in those places.