Home Depot in Kona, Hawai'i sells banana trees. An American nationwide corporate chain having local product. For $25 I bought the tree in September and in April now, seven months into growing strong, the tree is a few feet from the walkway into our house. Surprise is that you…

Not so often that I chew charcoal or what I might find after a campfire, kindling charred some, that I nibble on. Yet when I went into the terrain where the courage-ones go, meaning a local American grocery store, first, and on a tight budget, second, I bought Yuban coffee. Let's applaud that…