Tag: coffee
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Apex technology.
Technology: from Latinized form of Greek tekhnologia “systematic treatment of an art, craft, or technique”. The most astounding technological achievement is not the iPhone, or A.I., or starlink… It is the fact that someone figured out you could pick the seeds of the Cofea Arabica shrub, roast them, grind them, pour boiling water over them and improve…
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On assignment.
An expedition. An assignment. A quest. To find the perfect coffee shop. Brew. Ambience. Ceramics.Music. Architecture. People. It’s a big ask to achieve perfection on all the marks. And as the adventure is in the searching, I hope I never find it. As the writer Kate DiCamillo says….. “Say it, reader. Say the word ‘quest’…
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Sunday lake walk.
Shots from a quiet walk along the paved banks of Lake Burley. Everybody that was nobody was out and about. Cyclists, scooterers, and ambulatory deep-in conversationalists. The cardigan crew, the yoga pants posers, the cafe crowd and the fashion outliers. Sunlight held hint of a wry spring smile. Magpies and seagulls amongst it all. The…
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Thank you to all the Joel’s out there.
Every time my writing battery has drained down to the lead-acid bottom sludge, and I’m questioning if I have anything worthwhile to add to the already hyper-dense, froth and bubbles, online ecosystem, someone drops a particularly encouraging comment or tips me a few dollars for a coffee. It is sunlight to my solar panels. Yesterday…
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