noooooooooooo…
visiting friend’s lakehouse
woke up early
went to make coffee
looked on the shelves
this is what i found
a whisper of real coffee
and a full tin of decaf.
horror in the morning.
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coffee on the morning after halloween
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A list of words for coffee in ten different languages…
10. Welsh = coffi
9. French = café
8. Manx = caffee
7. Romanian = cafea
6. Dutch = koffie
5. German = kaffee
4. Swedish = kaffe
3. Malagasy = kafe
2. Icelandic = kaffi
1. Ojibwe = makade-mashkikiwaaboo (literally “black medicine water”)
(plus others found later and added in below)
Tamil: Kaapi
Hungarian- kávé
Indonesian: Kopi
Spanish: Cafe
Korean: kuppi
Swedish slang for coffee: Java or Kip.
Snutkaffe (cop-coffe): standard black coffee with absolutely no sugar or milk.
Preferably from a gas station.
Onondaga word for coffee: either khófi or ohnegaijíh (black alcohol)
trump: covfefe
The phrase in Welsh according to the BBC for “I like coffee” is “dw’in hoffi coffi”
which does rhyme.
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I pretty much will drink any coffee. turkish prison coffee, gas station coffee, day old, microwaved, reheated, etc. I especially love the Ojibwe translation (black medicine water), which I find to be quite accurate. anyone have any others?
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‘coffee is a language in itself.’
-jackie chan
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source credits: random and all over the place
-jimmy buffett
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photo image: zoe coffee company
celebrate national coffee day with a your favorite cup of coffee and this wonderful book
it’s the incredible but true story of a young man, Mokhtar Alkhanshali,
a beverage, a history, a mix of cultures, and pure perseverance
the unlikely and winding journey he took
from here to there and back again
keeps you wondering
will his dream come alive?
with a refusal to give up
a survival instinct
and lots of thinking on this feet
you’ll follow along
with this poignant, suspenseful, moving, and often funny story
as Mokhtar struggles to keep his balance
and not abandon his people
both near and far.
written by award-winning author, Dave Eggers
you can’t help but cheer him on
and you might even learn something along the way.
Mokhtar Alkhanshali and company
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“Al-Shadhili became known as the Monk of Mokha, and Mokha became the primary point of departure for all the coffee grown in Yemen and destined for faraway markets.”
-dave eggers, the monk of mokha
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credits: Dave Eggers, 2018, NYT bestseller, Knopf Publishing
Johann Bach is remembered as one of the world’s greatest composers, known for orchestral compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos. But one of Bach’s lesser-known works is Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (“Be Still, Stop Chattering”) — a humorous ode to coffee popularly known as the Coffee Canata. Written sometime in the 1730s, Bach’s mini comic opera makes light of fears at the time that coffee was an immoral beverage entirely unfit for consumption. In the 18th century, coffee shops in Europe were known to be boisterous places of conversation, unchaperoned meeting places for young romantics, and the birthplaces of political plots. A reported lover of coffee, Bach wrote a 10-movement piece that pokes fun at the uproar over coffee. The opera tells the story of a father attempting to persuade his daughter to give up her coffee addiction so that she might get married, but in the end, she just becomes a coffee-imbibing bride.
“If I couldn’t three times a day,
be allowed to drink my little cup of coffee, in my anguish,
I will turn into a shriveled-up roast goat.“
-Johann Sebastian Bach
*thank you for putting this to music, johann, i feel the same.
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source credits: interesting facts, flypaper, wikipedia, etsy mug
i love their sense of humor about this
despite the entire town
being under construction
enduring random outages
having traffic-related ‘disturbances’
their coffee place is open
still standing
it’s up to you
to creatively find your way there
the coffee is damn good and worth the odyssey.
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“humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. the minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield,
all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.”
-mark twain
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image credit: roos roast coffee
no matter how tired you are
when coming into the faculty room
to grab a cup of coffee
at the start of another day
look closely at the flavorings offered
choose wisely.
what will it be today?
caramel? chocolate? or bleach water?
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“once you make a choice, you have no choice.”
-anna chin-williams
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photo credit: c. hull – thank you!
on international coffee day
Meet the Italian Artist who creates Incredible Works of Art From Spilled Coffee
Italians are known for their love of coffee, but while most enjoy espresso for its taste, artist Giulia Bernardell appreciates it for its creative potential. She turns spilled coffee into works of art that look like detailed watercolor paintings.
Many of us start our day with a cup of joe, but Bernardelli indulges in a dose of inspiration, too. Her bio reads, “My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.” Bernardelli’s journey to creating coffee art began by chance. One day, the artist accidentally spilled coffee over her canvas as she was working. But rather than clean it up, Bernardelli grabbed a spoon and used it to guide the brown liquid around the white space.
Today, Bernardelli continues to use spoons in lieu of a paint brush, but she also uses matchsticks to achieve intricate details. From architectural sketches to studies of the human face, Bernardelli takes inspiration from everywhere. She even recreates Italian Renaissance masterpieces in her coffee art style. She’s “painted” the Mona Lisa and The Creation of Adam, using spilled coffee as pigment.
Since making a name for herself as a respected “coffee artist,” Bernardelli has branched out into new, edible mediums. She also creates art from melted ice cream, fruit, vegetables, and much more.
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“coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.”
-terri guillemets
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art credit: spilled coffee art, guilia bernadelli
source credit: mymet, emma taggart
My Modern Met granted permission to feature photos by Giulia Bernardelli
indigenous gold figures at the museo del oro precolumbia
san jose
britt coffee farm in the afternoon rain
central valley
“trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.”
-henri j.m. nouwen
when you start the day
by adding the soup broth instead of the almond milk
into your morning coffee
you know that your spring break is truly over.
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‘the detail is as important as the essential is. when it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.”
-christian dior
I didn't have my glasses on.... 