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27
Oct 2010

Convergence: Work For Dessert or Work for Dessert?

Sometimes you work for dessert, sometimes work is the dessert.  See that colorful bowl of raw veggies there? Just there, in the lower left foreground? The one surrounded by all the gadgetry, yet quietly, confidently holding it's own? That's dessert. Yep. My dessert. My less than stellar food choices rarely rate any ink. They're usually something not so very good for me, but taste so very yummy to me. Ah, the irony of eating like me...

Workdessert

So since this is one of those rare occasions where the work converges with a dessert that itself combines tasting good with being good, I thought I'd share it. Memorialize? That sounds so final. Like it may never happen again (and being raw veggies for dessert, that may very well be the case -  the 'Sock It To Me' cake from the local grocer's bakery is so much sexier). However, I prefer to 'immortalize' it: capture it for posterity's sake. A touchstone of a time when the zen of work and reward flowed freely into a period of beautiful creativity and craft, passion and productivity and... produce ...? Yeah. Ah, what the hell, since I fell on it, I'll just roll with it.

Now, I'm off to do more multi-tasking. Before the caffeine wears off. What? Did you think that broccoli, carrot sticks, and cauliflower inspired this random stream of (semi-)consciousness ramble? That's just crazy talk, man. Nope. It is after all, just dessert. I was simply riffing on the fact that I'm diggin' the vedge, quite literally so. The caffeine's actually fueling this little soliloquy, and if I want to capitalize on the buzz to squeeze out some more work, I'd better have at it.

So for now intrepid traveler of interwebs, I bid you adieu.  Until next we meat again: What's your passion? Is work dessert, or dessert work? What's convergence mean to you?

 

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14
Apr 2010

Comfort In Joy... For the love of coffee (and the craft of what YOU do)

I know, I know:  It's supposed to be 'Comfort AND Joy'.  But as I was thinking about it, enjoying my morning cup of coffee, I became bemused at the whole coffee snobbery issue, when it dawned on me:  it's not snobbery at all.  It's taking comfort in joy.

Comfortjoy

I watch truly gifted baristas; they're hardcore coffee people.  I love to watch gifted folks doing what they do.  It's almost a religion.  Think about it, for a sec.  There's reverence and ritual in what they do and how they do it.  And the why of it all  is infinitely simple, too.  Because they love it, and  - by extension - you:  They're sharing their love of coffee and tea craft with you, and they take a pure and unadulterated delight in your enjoyment of it.  Other than a small flourish if foam art , they're striving to be as transparent as possible between you and the product.  And it's comforting to feel someone take such joy in what they do...

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