Come to the Patisserie in Kahala in Hawaii for Coffee and Croissants The cheerful hard working manager hails from Germany. She will prepare you a breakfast of bacon, healthy toast and eggs with one hand, holding the telephone with the other and using body language and gesture to supervise the young sales personnel. Starting at 0700 the "regulars" arrive bearing books or newspapers to establish privacy. Being Kahala, celebrities are there from time to time but this is no place for reinforcing ego. A few couples or trios are part of the regulars but for the most part interaction is with greetings, chit chat and light banter. Here depicted is one of the "regulars". She often arrives with jogging pals on Saturday or Holiday mornings but who she is we do not know.

Another regular is leaving after her morning coffee. The CHC communicant at the Pattiserie has discovered that he and she once worked at the National City Bank of New York at 55 Wall Street in 1943. It is these little links and coincidences that form bonds of recognition that tell those who frequent this delightful cafe that they are part of the Common Heritage Community. For a few moments, without ego, with out comparison, without attachment, they can participate in private thought and at the same time enjoy the afferent reinforcement of breaking bread and breaking fast in an empathetic communion with community. Oh yes - a few tables are on the side walk and the photographer has spotted a customer who is observing with merriment the formation of the photographers essay. Her minutes of private quiet contentment of the morning are transformed into a rare moment of human bliss as revealed by her radiant smile. "We long to hear each others music sweet - just knowing that we're family our songs repeat."