The Emu Café and Blog Hospitality

This is the fourth part of six of my blogging “wisdom” project, which I am undertaking as part of The New Leaf Journal’s sixth birthday. Today is May 17, 2026. Back on May 16, 2020, I published what I recently described as my personal favorite NLJ article, Welcome to The Emu Café. The article begins: Welcome, one and all, to the opening of The Emu Café. In this special establishment of The New Leaf Journal, we serve only the finest descriptions of coffee, tea, and snacks to accompany. After you brew and procure your own, enjoy the lively discourse about aesthetics and the life lived well. The ambiance is always peaceful. Light flits through the windows such that, while indoors, the particular sensibilities of the days and seasons permeate the establishment. The traits of the seasons are most crisp in the refreshing mornings. Hours pass by slowly, like a reverie, in the bold colors of the afternoon. Lovers of elegance and wisdom are all in accord that the Moon, embroidered in the…