This was my last post in spanish on april, 2014. I intended to write a lot more than I did, but last year was crazy busy for me, traveling, teaching, learning and doing many differentes things at the same time. It was an amazing new adventures kind of year, super funny and plenty of cups and cups of coffee. Who can ask for more? Let´s take a look at this post while I start writing again. Doing some changes on the blog in the meantime. Hope you like it, enjoy!!
Many things have happened since the last time I posted on the blog. In fact, as life is constant, the changes have been of the most diverse nature and have an impact on different aspects of my life. I have traveled extensively over the past two years. I have visited countries that I thought I would never do. I have known people I have admired for many years related to the world of specialty coffees. I danced in fantastic places that only in my imagination I thought I could dance. I have discovered so dissimilar cultures that made me question the foundation of my own living. I ate, laughed, cried, enjoyed, shared but mostly I drank many cups of coffee. Unique, special, different from each other, prepared by myself and for others to me, roasted by myself and for others, some bought, some gifted and even one "stolen" may seem uncertain and the story is much more complex than the simple word. I felt happy but also sad. I felt accompanied but I also felt loneliness by my side, as a friend of those who never see but that from time to time get to the door to get noticed and you do not forget. I've gained and lost weight to gained back, which may be irrelevant for many but not for us women (or at least women like me, as generalities are never good). I have many more friends now than two years ago and many many more than three years ago. Some of them have become part of my life and I hope that can be with me through the distance on this adventure we call life. I slept and I had insomnia, like today, which is 03:28 am (April 28) and feel as if it is 09:00 am, Karate already trained, with breakfast and ready to work. I have had dreams and have been disappointed but I have not fallen in love again. I visited Lucy, who probably will write about her in an upcoming entry, which wonder and made me feel more alive than ever despite her almost 1.20 meters tall. I met and fell in love forever with the "beautiful" Myriam, who with her two years old made me sing the ABC for almost a month and today, when I'm alone I sing it loudly while I wish She could be here. I had a job and I quit after 23 years, asking myself uncertainty whether it was right or not, typical case of living for many years in the "Comfort Zone" stable but unhappy. I did let go my past and for the first time in a while it made me feel it left me aswell. I sigh and breathe.
In short, all these experiences, oddly enough, have been the result of a single cause: my relationship with coffee.
Relationship that has made me utterly and completely happy. And it is the reason I will always be grateful it has come into my life. Coffee is quiet, calm, confidence and hope for me. Call it as my Zen, if that word could be applied to the case. No tribulation or distress that can not be dissipated with coffee, whether roasted or brewed by myself.
I have many things to tell you and there are some others that are on their way. I am very excited about the future to come. Never too late for new beginnings. Especially when it means doing what gives us happiness. It is often said that what makes you happy and you love can not be called work. I could not agree more. For me it is no longer a popular saying to become a crushing reality.
Now more than ever I want to see you around here. Knowing your thoughts and share experiences with me. Only by sharing information we can learn more and I am convinced that this leads us, in turn, to become better people.
I share with you my recent "le motif"
"The more I learn the less I know."
Regards
" Because in every cup of coffee there is much more than just grains."
María Esther López Cásares
