Compared to tea which is more "flexible" in its brewing and is usually brewed to the drinker's taste.
There's also something curious about coffee.
Or the coffees produced by a cafe as it expands.
The owner decides on an expression... like a song writer who writes a song.
But it's prepared by someone else, the barista on duty. Who may not feel, embody,or even know the story behind that cup.
(Is this why my people pleaser self feels more alignment with tea?)
Sure i have a tea mom,and i make my art primarily with tea. but I have less beautiful tea relationships than coffee ones.
Like a musician who plays the music but may not stand or embody its lived expression.
And what about the farmers and roasters? Like the craftsmen who make instrument, they don't decide what message that coffee is going to stand for. They merely prepare the canvas, avail the opportunities....
The owners of Double Up coffee, whose coffee accompanied me to New York, and tide-ed me through the drought of finding cozy Pourover spots...
Today i learned about espresso, and New York coffee.
It may not be my style of beauty and aesthetics, but I understand now. and that affords me appreciation, as well as the ability to indulge.
Espresso is the intensity of expression, it reminds me of my taste story about angels...
An intense, dense experience that you need time to process in the background as you go about your day.
And the relationship I do hear about in tea involve so much... pretension, commercialism...where's the romance Ii wonder. This quieter medium somehow is fraught with more drama and uncomfortable people..
## Tea is (and maybe Pourover) is about stretching the moment to infinity,
## while espresso is about compressing infinity into a moment.
## Both beautiful in their own ways.
Compared to tea which is more "flexible" in its brewing and is usually brewed to the drinker's taste.
There's also something curious about coffee.
Or the coffees produced by a cafe as it expands.
The owner decides on an expression... like a song writer who writes a song.
But it's prepared by someone else, the barista on duty. Who may not feel, embody,or even know the story behind that cup.
(Is this why my people pleaser self feels more alignment with tea?)
Sure i have a tea mom,and i make my art primarily with tea. but I have less beautiful tea relationships than coffee ones.
Like a musician who plays the music but may not stand or embody its lived expression.
And what about the farmers and roasters? Like the craftsmen who make instrument, they don't decide what message that coffee is going to stand for. They merely prepare the canvas, avail the opportunities....
The owners of Double Up coffee, whose coffee accompanied me to New York, and tide-ed me through the drought of finding cozy Pourover spots...
Today i learned about espresso, and New York coffee.
It may not be my style of beauty and aesthetics, but I understand now. and that affords me appreciation, as well as the ability to indulge.
Espresso is the intensity of expression, it reminds me of my taste story about angels...
An intense, dense experience that you need time to process in the background as you go about your day.
And the relationship I do hear about in tea involve so much... pretension, commercialism...where's the romance Ii wonder. This quieter medium somehow is fraught with more drama and uncomfortable people..
## Tea is (and maybe Pourover) is about stretching the moment to infinity,
## while espresso is about compressing infinity into a moment.
## Both beautiful in their own ways.