I change my computer wallpaper from time to time, but for the last few months, it has a been a picture I took of coffee beans from a trip my wife and I took to Hawaii last year. It’s a great photo, but I changed it yesterday to one that my sister-in-law took of my wife, dog, and I while on a trip to the Oregon coast. It wasn’t taken in Hawaii where we first met, but it captures what matters most to me.
I love traveling from coffee shop to coffee shop, initiating conversations, taking photos, enjoying good coffee, and plugging in, checking into foursquare, tweeting, and so forth. I live for coffee and conversation—online and especially in person—but while in California, attending The Speciality Coffee of America Exposition, and even a few weeks before, I realized that I’ve been putting more energy into the idea of conversation (i.e. how many I have and the specific places in which they happen), and less on the act, the moment in which two people meet face to face—at home, in a coffee shop, or anywhere else.
I love coffee, but it’s conversation that makes me feel alive. So, I’m going to take a deep breath, take a step back, and pay even more attention to the people I meet, the people I know, and the people that make life worth living.
As for Caffeinated Conversations, there’ll be some significant changes in the next few months; this website and my future projects will move from where coffee meets conversation to the moment and act when people converse. Subtle though it may sound, it makes sense to me.
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Congratulations for this learning and thanks for the reminder!