I am grateful for Dagny’s, a local, downtown Bakersfield
coffee hang out.
I don’t know when I started going there, but it has to have been several years now. I love their green tea and their Volcan coffee. They have sesame bagels.
They attract artsy people like me and many friends of mine.
There are times I have sat in Dagny’s and talked to people
all morning: different people rotating in and out, listening to music,
eavesdropping on
conversations, writing poetry about the characters who show up
there.
They expanded recently and Cameron and I have taken to
meeting there to grade papers together.
I
see other academic people there, too, with stacks of pages with marks on them. It
helps to have a place to go with tasks to do so being shut up in your home won’t
distract you from the task at hand.
I love the smells there, the staff is cool and they even
serve beer so on those days when coffee won’t do, a shock top is a
welcome change. I have held Sunday rehearsals there, line throughs, which turn into social events and help break through any awkwardness between cast members.
I am grateful for Dagny’s, as strange as that may seem, for being a calm and chaotic resting place for me when I need a break from my home office. AND! I love the extension recently in place. Yes. I am grateful.....
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© 2012 by Julie Jordan Scott
Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She leads Writing Camp with JJS & next year she will be traveling throughout the US to bring this unique, fun filled creative experience to the people wherever she finds the passion & the interest.
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