Life in the moment.....

Early, early, early Monday morning....the chickens get up early...the dogs get up early....’n I’m up early....”burnin’ daylite” as Big John sed in several movies....the chickens are out scratching breakfast in the neighborhood flowers, the dogs have gone back to bed (proving yet again the seeming superiority of life in the moment) ‘n I’m sitting at the ‘puter waiting for the coffee to finish dripping.....when I was a younger man, I waited for it to percolate ‘n when I was much, much younger, I waited for it to boil....’n yeah, I drank coffee when I was a boy....I liked it black ‘n in a saucer the way my Grandpa took it....by the time I got into my teens, I drank it with cream the way my Mother did ‘n since she never took sugar in her coffee, I never developed a taste for sweet coffee either....in the late sixties, restaurants all up ‘n down California began replacing half ‘n half with non-dairy coffee creamer ‘n since they all without exception added a queer ‘n unusual taste to the coffee, I went back to drinking my coffee black like my Grandpa only without the saucer...back in those halycon days of yore, Denny’s had what was arguably the best cup of coffee t’be had in the central valley...they served Kona coffee, from Hawaii, considered at the time t’be one of the premier coffees on the market...it was ten cents a cup ‘n free refills....God wuz in His heaven, the hippies were discovering the wisdom of Dog (life in the moment) ‘n all wuz right with the world.....the world should prob’ly have got suspicious when the Oakland A’s went retro, the VW Beetle went psychedelic ‘n gun barrels sprouted flowers but rationale went up in smoke ‘n the philistines paved paradise.....