Co-op: awesomeness

Granted this picture is from November, but I would just like to post a little bit about my hometown co-op. For those of you that don't know what a Co-op (or Cooperative) is, it's a business organized by people to provide needed goods and services and are based on the values of self-help, self responsibility, democracy, solidarity, equality, and equity. Basically, the Stevens Point Co-Op rocks. It always smells like fresh baked breads and cinnamon rolls mixed with fresh ground coffee and essential oils. All mixed together, it ends up smelling warm, if you could bottle up that scent.
I could (and have) literally spend the better part of an hour in this small grocery/bakery/drug store. It's all natural foods, and since I have adapted the vegan diet for the most part, it carries things I can't find anywhere else. I love food, and the fresh, good-for-the-environment food the Co-op sells just eminates joy to me. And the employees in their natural clothes and hippie hair are always so nice. I have learned to appreciate the small things about my small town, which I used to despise when I was little. But it's actually a pretty awesome place to live.