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local grocery is closing

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Kokubunji, 2024.07.09

I went to our local grocery store tonight and was shocked to see that it was closing for the next two weeks for extensive renovations. There had been no notice, so it was a bit of a surprise. I hope we'll make do with surrounding stores, but I suspect they'll be packed.

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Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke