For pure pleasure, and sheer enjoyment, little beats my first cup of coffee of the day.
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For pure pleasure, and sheer enjoyment, little beats my first cup of coffee of the day.
Having a lovely coffee from Ethiopia this morning. Made in my cafetière. Lovely and mellow.
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Having a lovely coffee from Ethiopia this morning. Made in my cafetière. Lovely and mellow.
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Consider me impressed, and envious and salivating.
Do enjoy.
Having a cup of green tea before dinner. Very nice purchase, @AVBeatMan.
Woke up at 4AM. Meditation and coffee. Read a few pages from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and passages of the Bhagavad Gita . Then, with more coffee at hand, read the newspapers. All of it followed up by a light breakfast (Cappuccino and one egg, over easy) before heading to work.
Coffee and Marcus Aurelius, meet with my complete approval and approbation.
Meditation, also, but I have yet to master this, although the concept attracts me.
But, a 4 a.m. start?
Ooooh.
Unless I have a train or plane to catch, that is not when my day commences.
Thanks! My opinion is that reading classics from thousands of years ago really helps finding different ways to look at the world. It also helps me notice how the human mind (and many of its reasonings and problems) didn't really change throughout the centuries.
You should really try it. I certainly don't buy all the "miracles" that some teachers (good faith and bad faith ones) claim, but I find it a truly helpful practice.
I recommend two apps:
1GiantMind - This is mantra based, nondirective effortless meditation; 20 minutes a day. It's guided for the first couple of minutes, then it's completely silent (or with some light background music) until the end. This is my favorite. 100% free.
Calm - This is "mindfulness" based (mostly breathing or body scans). There are different sessions and types. It's usually guided throughout its entirety, so to me it's a bit distracting. However, I must admit that it's incredibly well made and it's by far the most popular app and meditation method. It's generally free, with a subscription to unlock more material. (Curiously, the app provides even bedtime stories read by professional readers or actors).
There are other apps such as headspace, or 10% happier, but I am not really familiar with them.
Not easy, I would say!
Well, you're the reasonable one among the two of us
Thanks! My opinion is that reading classics from thousands of years ago really helps finding different ways to look at the world. It also helps me notice how the human mind (and many of its reasonings and problems) didn't really change throughout the centuries.
You should really try it. I certainly don't buy all the "miracles" that some teachers (good faith and bad faith ones) claim, but I find it a truly helpful practice.
I recommend two apps:
1GiantMind - This is mantra based, nondirective effortless meditation; 20 minutes a day. It's guided for the first couple of minutes, then it's completely silent (or with some light background music) until the end. This is my favorite. 100% free.
Calm - This is "mindfulness" based (mostly breathing or body scans). There are different sessions and types. It's usually guided throughout its entirety, so to me it's a bit distracting. However, I must admit that it's incredibly well made and it's by far the most popular app and meditation method. It's generally free, with a subscription to unlock more material. (Curiously, the app provides even bedtime stories read by professional readers or actors).
There are other apps such as headspace, or 10% happier, but I am not really familiar with them.
Not easy, I would say!
Well, you're the reasonable one among the two of us
Agree that the classics of the past thousands have much to teach us, and that reading them can be enlightening and strange uplifting and cathartic.
The very best student I ever taught - who has been a close friend for years - gave me a gift of an exquisitely beautiful edition of the writings of Rumi on the day of my mother's funeral, after the funeral luncheon.
Needless to say, the occasion alone would have made the gift significant, but the writings are wonderful to explore.
And I have long been struck by the fact that writings may make total sense - that you "get" it, in a certain way, at a particular time (or age) in your life, that would have been incomprehensible, or simply not interesting, at an earlier time of life.
I have been meaning to look into meditation for years; thank you for these recommendations.
By the way, I am enjoying a most pleasant mug of coffee as I write.
I concur wholeheartedly.
What a wonderful gift! Just the other day I was pondering over one of his quotes ("Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment").
Very true. From a certain point of view, teaching classics in school detracts from their beauty. In most opinion, kids are really not ready to understand their depth and beauty, and sadly many teachers don't know how to teach them (not an easy task).
My pleasure, don't forget to update us in the meditation thread!
Ah, after I read this - and before replying - I went to refill my coffee mug.
Hugely enjoying a mug of steaming hot coffee in my Le Creuset mug.
I'm preparing my second espresso of the morning in my Le Creuset cup.
I am enjoying my second cup of coffee of the day, in, yes, my Le Creuset mug.
My post market mug of piping hot coffee (served in aLe Creuset mug) is going down rather well.
Sounds delicious.
Do enjoy.
Actually, I have been perusing the sites of some of my favourite coffee roasters, including the Ethiopian Coffee Company, (but also examining one or two Kenyan roasts with great interest).
Awful.
Let's keep this thread civilised and cultured.
I'd suggest that you reserve that suggestion for elsewhere.
And - in its place - (Turkey, Bosnia, and places influenced by the Ottoman culturally), I have to say that Turkish coffee is quite wonderful.
Monday morning coffee in my Le Creuset mug, with organic full fat milk, and organic brown sugar.
I recently ordered a bunch of Loveramics mugs in all different colours and sizes.
Somehow, my breakfast lattes and afternoon espressos now taste nicer than before.
https://www.coffeedesk.com/search/loveramics egg/
Somehow, my breakfast lattes and afternoon espressos now taste nicer than before.
https://www.coffeedesk.com/search/loveramics egg/
Had a lovely full English consisting of bacon, sausage, egg, black pudding, mushrooms and whole meal toast. Then a perfect flat white from my favourite coffee shop, Bradley’s. A perfect way to start the day.
https://bramleyscoffeehouse.co.uk/
https://bramleyscoffeehouse.co.uk/
No tomatoes?
Sounds absolutely delicious.
For me, that tends to be a week-end treat, or a repast I will treat myself to when staying in a good hotel.
Ah yes, forgot the tomato. There was one large sweet tomato.
It was a treat. On annual leave.
A full English is incomplete without a tomato - that quartet, bacon, egg, sausage and tomato just work perfectly together. Black pudding is also an excellent addition, as are/were mushrooms, but I tend to prefer mushrooms with other dishes.
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