We know our baristas are all just sharing a part of their journeys with us. It’s the nature of things, just like our cafe friends, people pop in, brighten the space with their ways, and it’s natural that, at some time, some may find new journeys, spaces, finish their studies, move to other cities. We cheer them on as we can.
But we won’t lie: there is a small grieving process we say goodbye, and we return, knowing that they won’t be there to greet, to put together a curry, to greet in their special way.
Such it was this week, when we got word that it is such time. We were not prepared for this part of the job! Maybe it’s a blessing that there are operational steps to jump into: planning, hiring to be done, schedules to be stared at, a little less sleep until we’ve got this figured out.
And while we’re at it, maybe we’ll add a line to the song we console ourselves with on days like these:
People got feet
Feet gotta move
They got places to go
They go theories to prove
Some of us stay
Maybe a bridge on the way
We got roots in the ground now
Couldn’t hold you down now
So go friend go
Take your beautiful self there
You’ve got so much to share
And there is so much to share out there
Go, friend, go
Every bird has to fly
Get a little sweet taste of sky
There you go making, doing, laughing, breaking hearts on your way
Turning the world as you sway
Showing us all new ways to play
We hold to the moment you breezed in and smiled, said hi in your way
Funny how you can never say
which are the days that braid and stay
So go friend go
You know where to find us though
You got so much to share
And there’s so much to share out there
People got feet
Feet gotta move
They got places to go
They got theories to prove