Coffee Break

Posted on November 2, 2014 by rfljenksy

“What do you want?”
“Just coffee. Black – like my soul.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

Yes!! Once again it’s time for a coffee break. As I have mentioned or shown in past posts (I have a confession… A simple cup of Joe…and Morning Reflections), I like coffee.

“It doesn’t matter where you’re from- or how you feel…There’s always peace in a strong cup of coffee.”― Gabriel Bá, Daytripper

One of my favorite things to do is to wake up eat a solid breakfast and drink a very strong cup of coffee. So in honor of that and reflecting some of my favorite past travels. I would like to share some of my most recent favorite coffee breaks. So here is to bountiful beans which are inviting and welcoming to strangers!!

Coffee is a language in itself. Jackie Chan

No matter how you take it or where they serve it.. you just can’t beat coffee in Turkey!!

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. Lewis Black

I like coffee anywhere, but coffee in Vietnam.. though small.. it doesn’t get any better.

“Hydrogenated and androgynous milky white love is all I have to offer you. Would you like me to pour it in your coffee, or directly into your soul? ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They’re Over.

Other favorite coffee time pictures:

venezuela coffee

Organic farm posada owner prepping fresh ground coffee

coffee in Venezuela

Coffee shop on Vietnamese floating village in Cambodia

Fresh ground coffee ready – organic coffee farm los andes

coffee in montana

breakfast and coffee over a campfire

coffee in montana

coffee in venezuela

morning coffee in montana camp

morning coffee sis

coffee to stay awake

coffee shop in venezuela

Coffee on vietnam fishing boat in Cambodia

coffee venezuela

Reflecting on how lucky I am over a fresh cup of organic coffee.

coffee in venezuela

Coffee in Curacao

Other posts I enjoyed while drinking my coffee

Normal people doing normal people things

Posted on September 17, 2014 by rfljenksy

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb

As you can probably tell, people are my favorite subject. The less posed the better. The following are some of my most favorite from a recent hash I participate in. Just normal people doing normal people things. I hope you enjoy this little bit of humanity in Nepal.

Well that’s all folks. Ya’ll come back now.

This week, Thirdeyemom challenges you to interpret the theme humanity.

One big wave…always on the move

Posted on May 10, 2014 by rfljenksy

Cheri Lucas Rowlands posted a great theme this week on the Daily Post. I have decided to interpret it with my favorite moving object.. no not myself…..

“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”

― Sarah Kay

While in Vietnam I decided to take a rest stop and catch my breath in Danang. I was super exhausted from the hiking, biking and canoeing marathon and just wanted to take a couple of days and rest at the ocean. I woke up one morning and decided to take some photos of the sun coming up..and later the sun going down. I stood in one place and just kept on shooting photos of the always moving waves. From the same exact spot every single picture was so different and so beautiful. I hope you enjoy.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

John F. Kennedy

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“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Arthur C. Clarke

Here are some other photos of my beach time.

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I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

Drew Barrymore