Blog #2: The Daily Grind

Have you ever walked into a place, and felt a rush of what it means to be present, to have time stop still, and to have everything bad in your day disappear even if only for a moment?

To walk in somewhere and everything pleasant hits you like a ton of bricks?... There are so many beautiful smells, and yet you can tell each one apart instead all of them warping together to make one smell.  The vast variety of people is as wide as the ocean, and yet in that environment it registers as normalcy.  The scene that rests upon your eyes is something so unique, different, beautiful, and wrong in so many good ways, however it feels so good to see it every time you go there?

If you have ever walked into such a place consider yourself lucky, because these special little, hole-in-the-walls seem to be vanishing faster than we could say, goodbye."  This certain place I am talking about though is the charming coffee shop on West High Street in the heart of New Philadelphia, Ohio.  

The Daily Grind.  

I get a little chuckle from people when I tell them this place is practically my second home, but it's true.  I can remember for as far back as I can remember going to The Daily Grind.  I come here all the time whether it be for meeting up with someone, reading a book, going for some alone time (Ironic, right? In a coffee shop?), for breakfast or lunch, to stop in quickly just to get my drink and leave, and to go in get my drink and sit for hours.  

The Daily Grind may be a coffee shop that sells baked goods, plays fun old music, and has cute decor, but it is far more than that.  

It's a staple.

A staple that ties the past with the present, and the elderly with the young.

This darling coffee shop used to house itself originally in a former shoe store on 2nd street when they first opened in 1995.

More than twenty years ago!

For anyone that has simply walked in can tell the retro vibes are really there.  Before The Daily Grind moved into its spot on High Street the community was going into Millers Bakery, and even before that it was Aberths Bakery!

You see, The Daily Grind holds a beauty that so many places don't.  It unites so many different kinds of people in one place, and yet it doesn't phase anyone that walks in.  It is one of few places in the community that brings us all together.