The freshly brewed coffee was poured into the cup.
A daily ritual's aroma was mingled with freshly baked bread, dipped into the black sea of sweetened coffee. Bread drenched with this morning's goodness, made its way to the anticipating lips. A scene that played out every day, of every year.
Coffee beans hand picked, roasted then roughly ground, held its own uniqueness.
Souvenirs spill
From the
Unsealed
Yellow envelope
Its brightness
Contrasted against
The black shirt mourning
The feebleness of a friend
The sun spills a square or two of light onto
The fenced gravel road
Cell bars cast by shadows
Cage his friend in steel
A one man prison
As whip-thin branches flaunt buds
Freshly emergent and tall, pushing against the early spring wind…
My proclivity for drinking coffee stems from an innate hatred of mornings. I like the nightlife; I like to boogie - so while most people are bounding out of bed yipping about sunshine and lollipops in super-chipper voices, I'm calling the alarm clock a filthy name, hoping I don't break yet another snooze button.
Here’s some sweet news to add to your morning coffee: Regular coffee drinkers are likely to live longer, says the largest study ever done on the subject.
Even better, it doesn’t matter whether you drink regular or decaf.
To examine the relationship between coffee and health, researchers with the National Institutes of Health looked at the coffee drinking habits of more than 400,000 AARP members ages 50 to 71 between 1995 and 1996, then followed them until 2008.
In today’s New York Times, there is one article discussing the benefits of drinking coffee and one article questioning the positive health impacts of high levels of good cholesterol. It was comical to observe that one of the studies made me cheer – yay, more coffee! – and one of the studies made me frown – boo, less guacamole!
Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has priced at $38.00 per share, at the top of the already-raised range of $34.00 to $38.00 per share. The offering size is 421,233,615 shares of Class A common stock and the latest prospectus amendment noted that if the underwriters exercise the overallotment in full as we are currently expecting then the total share count would come to 484,418,657 shares in the offering.
So much of the Internet is already taken up with dudes nerding out about coffee, so I don't really feel the need to add to the Greater Body Of Work. But if you need proof of my coffee geek cred, consider that I have a whole shelf devoted to coffee supplies. Currently, I've got:
-- a French Press
-- an Aeropress…
A friend of mine is offering eleven drink boxes of coconut water to anyone who might like them. (If you live in the Kansas City area, look her up.) "Most ridiculous impulse buy I've made to date," she proclaims.
It's a pretty great one, I think. Just say the words coconut water out loud (or imagine doing it, if you're reading this on the bus or something).
This project started out as an attempt to preserve spring herbs.When I first started my garden, years ago, I was working with this bare hillside covered with brush and weeds. I didn't really have any experience with garden planning and made some strange choices, once of which was to plant a whole bunch of mint. I liked the idea of mint growing around my garden without me having to do anything, and since it would spread I figured it would take over the space from all the weeds.
Process of handpicking
depulping & washing
fermenting & drying
Coffee picker on Salvadoran cooperative Ciudad Barrios, certified by the Rainforest Alliance. Credit: Robert Goodier (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
collection at local cooperative
transport to regional cooperative
receiving & inspection
patio drying
Sorting and pulping coffee beans at a fair trade cooperative in Guatemala (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
de-husking & screening
quality controls
tasting, testing prior to export
packaged
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