Thanks for the morning bawl over my morning french toast!! Wow, this got me right in the heart and is just what I needed; a beautiful and heartfelt reminder of what matters in this life, even amidst the chaos. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Merry Christmas to you too. Thanks for reading and I love those moments that come in the midst of the Buy It Now world we live in that reminds us of the good stuff. Blessings to you and yours.
You took me back to a familiar restaurant that exemplified the same family values and simplicity of breaking bread together, the good old fashioned days our souls are aching for, the ones that only God can fill in our hearts. I look forward to all your writings! All the highest blessings to you in the year ahead as well!
Beautifully written piece. The way the cash register and handwritten tickets captured something deeper about resisting the "tyranny ofthe computer age" really stuck with me. I've noticed that places still doing things manually tend to attract people seeking refuge from transactional efficiency, almost like they become accidental sanctuaries. The closing of these anchors forces us to reckon with impermanence in ways we dunno how to handle.
I lived in Yellowstone for a summer, and we often visited Jackson Hole. That was 1982. In 2005, I took my wife and kids on a 6-week cross-country tour in an RV. All the character and local restaurants were gone, replaced by industrial food chains. One of the most delightful restaurants I ever found, a Hungarian sit-down in West Yellowstone, Montana, had been gobbled up (along with a family pizza place called The Gusher there, where I worked in '82 as a pizza cook after leaving the Old Faithful Inn).
Our dining experiences, much like our spiritual experiences, have been absorbed by the same profit-driven industrial/materialistic Borg.
Makes me want to open an organic, grass-fed, beef tallow drive-thru. I've talked about it for decades, but never had faith people would pay a premium for health and quality. Perhaps MAHA is changing that.... Like food helps us be healthy and stay alive, the food of scripture feeds our souls, lest we perish for lack of God's word. Our values are messed up, and it shows physically and morally in this culture.
I hope you find another authentic Mexican joint soon....
Merry Christmas John - absolutely true and it’s been so strange to watch. The family restaurant is in much want these days. It’s a spiritual reality of the moment that we’re not in tune with the temptations that have decimated our hometowns. Blessings to you and let me know if you want to open that burger place. It sounds delightful.
Thank you for sharing these beautiful memories! I find myself wondering what Heaven will hold for me often as I'm growing old. I think God is smiling down on you for your meaningful imaginations.
Time for everything and it is In Gods hands. We are. Happy and hard. I don’t like all of his changes. Thankful for His sovereign plan. Sometimes. I’m glad no one else is in charge. Leaders are only in their seats bc God put them there.
Thanks for the morning bawl over my morning french toast!! Wow, this got me right in the heart and is just what I needed; a beautiful and heartfelt reminder of what matters in this life, even amidst the chaos. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Merry Christmas to you too. Thanks for reading and I love those moments that come in the midst of the Buy It Now world we live in that reminds us of the good stuff. Blessings to you and yours.
You took me back to a familiar restaurant that exemplified the same family values and simplicity of breaking bread together, the good old fashioned days our souls are aching for, the ones that only God can fill in our hearts. I look forward to all your writings! All the highest blessings to you in the year ahead as well!
Beautifully written piece. The way the cash register and handwritten tickets captured something deeper about resisting the "tyranny ofthe computer age" really stuck with me. I've noticed that places still doing things manually tend to attract people seeking refuge from transactional efficiency, almost like they become accidental sanctuaries. The closing of these anchors forces us to reckon with impermanence in ways we dunno how to handle.
It’s interesting to see the things stuck in time. People seem to crave it. The full press to efficiency is sterile and strange. Thanks for reading!
A lovely piece, Aaron.
I lived in Yellowstone for a summer, and we often visited Jackson Hole. That was 1982. In 2005, I took my wife and kids on a 6-week cross-country tour in an RV. All the character and local restaurants were gone, replaced by industrial food chains. One of the most delightful restaurants I ever found, a Hungarian sit-down in West Yellowstone, Montana, had been gobbled up (along with a family pizza place called The Gusher there, where I worked in '82 as a pizza cook after leaving the Old Faithful Inn).
Our dining experiences, much like our spiritual experiences, have been absorbed by the same profit-driven industrial/materialistic Borg.
Makes me want to open an organic, grass-fed, beef tallow drive-thru. I've talked about it for decades, but never had faith people would pay a premium for health and quality. Perhaps MAHA is changing that.... Like food helps us be healthy and stay alive, the food of scripture feeds our souls, lest we perish for lack of God's word. Our values are messed up, and it shows physically and morally in this culture.
I hope you find another authentic Mexican joint soon....
Merry Christmas John - absolutely true and it’s been so strange to watch. The family restaurant is in much want these days. It’s a spiritual reality of the moment that we’re not in tune with the temptations that have decimated our hometowns. Blessings to you and let me know if you want to open that burger place. It sounds delightful.
Thank you for sharing these beautiful memories! I find myself wondering what Heaven will hold for me often as I'm growing old. I think God is smiling down on you for your meaningful imaginations.
Time for everything and it is In Gods hands. We are. Happy and hard. I don’t like all of his changes. Thankful for His sovereign plan. Sometimes. I’m glad no one else is in charge. Leaders are only in their seats bc God put them there.
So sad they are closing. This happened to a close friend of mine this year.
Certainly happens more than I’d like. I wish they were being replaced by another local endeavor, but that seems less likely in our time.
They didn’t tell u why they were closing?
No. I think there was just a sense in the family that they were done.
😞 🙏. Long time to serve. They were faithful in using their gifts, talents from the Lord.