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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky

Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky:




Saturday coffee.


77029_468510533208774_561057374_nThe street art of Chicago’s Vicente Jasso Jr.
The calories in a Peets large latte is the same as in a 12 ounce can of Coke.
They’re not sugar calories. But they are calories just the same. There’s a lot of milk in a large latte, even if it’s non-fat. And calories are calories even if they’re not fat calories.
So this morning I shifted over to a cafe au lait. 
It is part of my retiree life-style change of eating more carefully and exercising regularly at a gym and working with a trainer.
But not today. Not on Saturdays.
It is a beautiful morning in Chicago. After enduring a week of cold and gray the sun is shining. The sky is blue. The streets have turned white. Not from snow but from the dusting of salt and chemicals that remains after the melting of  our record  setting - so far for this year – two inches of snow.
Chicago has a long history of public murals. In the seventies there was even an organization of artists knows as



Old school.

Dr. John.