the optimism of breakfast

"In the Optimism of the Morning, it is wise to Get Going. To be Confident, Expansive, Exuberant.
If you find yourself at the Cup and Saucer Coffee Shop - or any coffee shop - with a Jelly Doughnut
and a cup of coffee, staring out the window at the parade of passers by, you could do worse.
A whole lot worse."

-Illustration and words by Maira Kalman,
as printed in the July 22, 2013 issue of the New Yorker.