perfect cup of sumatra

there is a new $12,000 coffee apparatus at starbucks. it is intelligent. it thinks, weighs, measures, pushes and pulls out water. it, along with my friendly and knowledgeable barista, produced a “perfect” cup of 2/3 caf and 1/3 decaf sumatra. at almost $3 for a short cup, it inspires guilt. i am a good person. i really am.

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first iphone cup of coffee

new device, new day, new cup
let us give thanks

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a day in new england

1. take coffee on porch whilst completing beading project begun during surgical recovery period and enjoying pleasant, gentle coversation
2. peanut butter and jelly, the healthiest and yummiest kind possible, on toasted millet bread
3. read
4. dress
5. walk “into town”
6. have lunch at cutesy restaurant
7. purchase art-related materials at art-related materials store
8. walk back to lovely house
9. drink tall iced coffee
10. take fierce nap
11. arise from fierce nap
12. prepare for evening activity
13. drive to local high school
14. witness both female and male roller derby
15. think about food, hunger, love, longing throughout day at different times
16. drive back to lovely house
17. consume, in a mindful manner, leftover foods from the past two evenings
18. perform bedtime ablutions

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a day without coffee

i did not drink any coffee today. i am sick and woke up knowing i could not drink it today. or, rather, that drinking it would be a waste since i would be unable to smell and taste it. it’s as though the sensory requirements for coffee enjoyment are not met when i am sick. yet, i drank two cups of earl gray tea and liked it very much. i don’t know what to do with this information.

i am hoping that tomorrow will be a coffee day. for me and for all sentient beings everywhere…without exception.

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taste problem

maybe it’s my sinuses. maybe it’s my new hygienic habit of scraping my tongue with a tablespoon upon waking in the ayurvedic fashion. i don’t know why, but i am having trouble tasting my coffee lately. this is especially troubling in light of (1) my fear of losing my sense of smell/taste and going mad, and (2) the fact that my beloved has been grinding my coffee fresh for me almost every morning.

this has to stop immediately. my coffee enjoyment is too important to be impaired for whatever reason.

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3x

today i drank 3 bodums of coffee.  half decaf, half regular. the last bodumful was freshly ground and so good that i am considering notching up my daily coffee requirements to include freshly ground.

my heart is pounding and i am wishing i could keep going. do i dare?

rationalization: it’s really like drinking 1.5 cups of regular coffee and 1.5 cups decaf.  not so much.

often when i drink multiple bodums of coffee, the second is inferior and i think, i didn’t really need this. but this time, the enjoyment is escalating. i am truly tempted to form another bodum and stir up the muddy goodness with a chopstick and wait for it to ripen.

some spontaneous coffee poetry:

you are the coffee flower of my heart
you, glass thing of wonder
i stir you gently and wait and wait and ask my partner susan, do you think the coffee is ready? what is the temperature going to be today?
now all that remains is the late afternoon sun, steelish sky and cup with a layer of sadness on the bottom
sad because i want it and, at the same time, know it is full of grounds. which i don’t want.

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hello, love buzz

now that the bad beans of summer have all gone away, it’s time to enjoy the dark roast combo of love. organic love buzz and french roast decaf. hello!

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coffee & bacon celebration

this is both a list and a declaration about coffee. today’s coffee has been quite excellent. two cups so far. because my cat is elderly, he is much less likely to jump on the couch without advanced warning, so i am now able to with confidence place a cup and saucer next to me on the couch. this adds to my enjoyment.

coffee and bacon are a very good combination. the bacon should be crispy and lack nitrates or other foul contaminants. which was the case today.

here is a list for today
1. i am happy
2. i am still vibrating from my excellent dance class yesterday
3. i am enjoying my coffee tremendously
4. it is a nice temperature: not too hot, not too cold. there should be more days like this.
5. my beloved made the applewood-smoked bacon in the oven and it came out nicely.
6. i have listened to _captain fantastic & the brown dirt cowboy_
7. i have written two thank-you cards
8. i am optimistic about the future
9. i am optimistic about the present
10. i am realizing that eating too much is really not what it’s cracked up to be
11. i am seeking an additional dance class for my week so that i am dancing more
12. my heart is genuinely happy today and also there is room in there for whatever sadness seems to be lingering
13. i am not finding it necessary to link residual sadness to a thought or story. hallelujah!

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coffee conflict

i’ve already had two bodumfuls of glorious halfcaf. for the second cup, i made scalded milk and whipped it up into a froth with my beautiful aerolatte wand, then proceeded to ignore it and drink cup number two black. i ignored the milk despite my efforts to present it in a gray russel wright creamer. so now the question is…do i make even more coffee?

i think the answer is obvious. soon it will be sundown. there will be no coffee drinking tomorrow morning, as it is the day of atonement, or reframed for my current purposes, the day of no coffee. in preparation, i should drink and enjoy as much as i like.

the only remaining obstacle is that i am on the couch and nobody else is home at the moment.

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today

1. coffee
2. pajamas
3. uninterrupted internet access
4. cheese
5. conflict
6. team style shop at the co op
7. snack
8. b63
9. kickass dance class
10. shower
11. dinner – quick
12. movie
13. mandel bread
14. tea
15. internet
16. sleep

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