Cuppa Tahoe - inspiring me to return to writing

Well, it was a long silence here.....almost 10 years! I had several friends say they were taking up blogging again during the Shelter at Home Quarantine beginnings in mid March of 2020, I thought that was a good use of creative juices, but did not feel inspired to string words together and wax poetic about what? my lack of styled hair, continually trying to get eggs or toilet paper...especially since I was still working, deemed essential by work since I was filling in for someone and while

Pastry Case with Iced Tea and Water

working my less than full time hours trying to keep her duties caught up with NO training, no clue and all the uncertainty and stress of a pandemic closing in from all corners.

Then today, May 23rd of 2020 I went to Cuppa Tahoe, a book store, tea, coffee, pastry shop
and it was like a siren to my soul.  BOOKS actual hard backed bound pages on shelves for purchase or perusal.  There are sections of the shop with
"touchme readme" books and comfy chairs and kid sections with vintage REAL typewrites, scales, mechanical telephones to touch and play with chalk and board. 
https://cuppatahoe.com/  There is a large and lovely CO WORK space with a living plant wall and waterfall and these tables that call to you to come and touch them with their varnished metals and woods of earthly hues.  The drinks avail in iced or hot varieties. 

The sweets and savories are small delights for tongue and
tummy: LEMON BAR was amazing!!
popsicles locally made of organic fruits and herbs are
in a chilled case for sale. 
Puzzles, Poetry sets, Journals, pens, rubber stamps
and educational gifts abound.....this will be the
place to acquire items for both YOUNG and OLD. 

All aforementioned acoutrements are housed in a strip mall within 2 miles of my home...this must be heaven!  I might have been home too long, but this felt decadent and sinful......i bought a cookbook for me and a self help book for a friend called Pause by Danielle North, about how to reset your mindset and value every minute....and some magnetic poetry kits and a lemon bar that was amazing!!!

The whole experience felt new to me, shopping for books....

..trying to remember the last independent bookstore I was in must have been in Davis, California 3-4 years ago! I forgot how much I love to browse and ponder all the written tomes of old and new.....when I am running through the library on a quest for a precise item, it is not pleasure but precision that drives that duty.  I need to have this store succeed and survive this new world of physical distancing and economic apocalypse for my sanity's sake.