in the world". THE WORLD!!!!
I had only known the Berkeley store to date, and conveniently (says Mr. Paradis), on past visits to
the Bay area, I had arrived at the Berkeley 4th St. store only after closing time. The original, Fillmore St. store, I had never visited, and did not know at all.
HAPPILY. Such was not the case on the occasion of my latest visits.......
TO BOTH THE STORES - Berkeley on a Monday, AND the
Fillmore St. store on a Tuesday. (After a long and informative walk from the Union Square
neighborhood. Through Nob Hill.) If you were a woman after my own heart, you might have been
making mental negotiations like mine: "I DO need new car because after all, I live in L.A.!
(Where a car is a MUST. ) BUT, if I DID NOT BUY A NEW CAR, but I tried instead to keep the old one going and bought the entire contents of at least one, if not BOTH of these Nest stores......(with the money I'd "save")
could I make myself the HAPPIEST PERSON ON EARTH FOREVER and
never need to leave home????" "It seems very possible", a person like me might persuade herself, "because the Nest stores would provide everything
I have ever, could ever, want or need?"
Would you feel like a Chinese person or an Egyptian, knowing that you could die happy
with everything you'd ever need in your afterlife as well? The way I do in this magical place?
Is that what heaven would feel like? That you'd been transported to somewhere utterly wonderful and not wish to ever leave again? "They" say that heaven is as simple as that. And through millennia we've been inclined to believe it.
That there is a heaven. So perfect, so pleasing, yes, small, perhaps but infinitely varied and pleasure-able. That heaven for me must surely be NEST.
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