Love The Coffee, More So The People

Coffee and conversations. This is the life.

TO BEGIN WITH

TRIVIA: We seldom think of the health benefits coffee brings, much less the difference in nutritional value between regular coffee compared to gourmet coffee. Coffee that is classified as gourmet is usually the coffee we order at Figaro, Starbucks etc. has espresso as their foundation. Espresso is thought to have more health benefits than regular coffee but it’s only mainly due to its brewing method.

Espresso is a concentrated form of coffee that is produced when water is forced under high pressure over finely ground coffee. The best of the coffee’s ingredients is expressed out in a quick method, this helps preserve beneficial antioxidants to maximize the health benefits and contains 2 to 3 times the number of anti cancer agents compared to regular coffee.

But espresso is notoriously difficult to brew and many will find a hard time getting it right.

LOVE THE COFFEE, MORE SO THE PEOPLE

I love drinking coffee.

Early in the morning. In the afternoon. In the evening.

All day, coffee.

More than ever, since I’ve found out that (surprise!) coffee can actually be very good for you.

I love the aroma. I love the flavor. I love the way it warmly, smoothly flows from my lips, through my throat.

Delicious.

But I enjoy it more when I’m drinking with my wife, Denielle. 

And sometimes with people close to my heart. Coffee and conversations. This is the life.

Maybe it’s not the coffee after all. It’s the people.

Random Thoughts

Good communication is as stimulating as coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Life begins after coffee.

Coffee with you, love, is capturing happiness in a cup.

Poem of the Week

DRIFTING 

by Raymund Tamayo

This is the way it was
while I was waiting for your eyes
          to find me.

Chocolates are dull,
coffee are cold,
clouds are gray,
shampoos have no scent.

My mind travels tired
out of a well of meaningless
          words, wandering, floating
like an owl blinking
          in the morning.

I was drifting
going no place,
hypnotized by sunshine
          maybe, or the sea wind or food.

I loved every face I thought looked pretty
and every kindred eye I caught in crowds.
          But I was drifting, 

                    before you.

(April 2007)

AND FINALLY

MORE TRIVIA: Coffee can be traced at least to as early as the ninth century, when it appeared in the highlands of Ethiopia. According to legend, an Arab goatherder named Khalid observed that his goats became livelier after eating the berries of the coffee plant. Intrigued, he boiled the berries, thus producing the first coffee. From Ethiopia, coffee spread to Egypt and Yemen. It was in Arabia that coffee beans were first roasted and brewed, similar to how it is done today. By the 15th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa.

I've been enjoying grinding our own coffee at work and my workmates brew it afterward. Hope to have the same at home with Denielle. Soon.

Happy Thursday! Sleep Warm and join me again next time.

Thanks for stopping by - see you when I see you.