At the risk of sounding vain, I am going to share with you that one of my highest values is aesthetics. Just staring at beautiful things… man made or made by God fills my soul. The mountains, the lakes, the palm trees, the veins of a leaf, the sun light through the trees… and the …
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Monthly Archives: October 2011
My Coffee Journey
Often I get asked “how did you get started in coffee?” The answer lies beyond the buckets of Folgers that were brewed like a religious call to worship each morning as I grew up. I guess the real start would have to lay next to the Mississippi river in the small university town of …
Why Burundi, Pt. 2
In my last post I told you that as a family, we needed some change. But of all the places in the whole of the world, why Burundi? Well, because we needed to face our fears and do it anyway! Because it would be easy to stay in Durban, grow old in Durban doing the …
A Quick Look…
… at the beauty of coffee making and the talented barista’s that do it. all images Kristy Carlson.
The Stress-O-Meter
Warning: These images have nothing to do with this blog post, except that looking at early morning moments with my boys makes me less stressed. You? Hmmm… doesn’t have the same effect on you? That’s weird. Once I took a crazy spring break trip with four cars worth of college students on their way to …
Why Burundi?
Twice in the last 24 hours I have had friends ask me “why Burundi?” It wasn’t the sort of “why?” that we get from scared relatives or rural-Africa-phobic types. It’s a deep question rooted in an intrinsic desire to understand this whole Long Miles Coffee Project thing. This post is my way of facing …