Smoked Sausage Bread and Today's Coffee

20220817, #breakfastdiary 525, 24°C/mostly sunny, 10min/exercise (Bought quite a while ago, but read about first through reviews here and there before that — as is probably true for most people, and so it still sits reliably on a corner of my bookshelf today) Two things people don't really know about #EdwardSaid, the author of #Orientalism: 1. He was a leading Palestinian intellectual who acted (?) on his convictions, and 2. He was a promising pianist who boldly gave it up after realizing he was too rational a person to pursue music. From #Seaspiracy, the documentary exposing the fishing industry's impact on the environment, the closing whaler interview: "I don't think I'm a bad person. If you say, 'you kill whales, so you're a bad person' — I'd rather kill one whale than two thousand chickens, since the amount of meat is about the same. The world takes two thousand lives; we take one — so you should be grateful. (...) I think the value of one life is the same as another's. A life is a life."

Starbucks sausage bread, today’s coffee, an apple

Just go to Starbucks and say, sausage bread and a hot cup of today's coffee, please.