Coffee - Why We Get Along

Of course I know why we get along.  Let me just say this.  Two people look at the cloven hoofed animal - one sees a work of God's art and the other sees bacon.

Good morning.  Two people, two perspectives.  I'm not one to mix politics and breakfast, but there is a sort of ethereal, metaphysical, emotional, insert another innocuously vague term here, gray understanding that I have with coffee.  You may have picked up on this.

For me, coffee plays a very important role.  It supports thirty million farmers, if only just.  It is consumed in cups - half a trillion every year.  It washes down my bacon breakfast sandwich delightfully well but the point is that it may be something still greater.  I wake up this morning and expect new perspectives.  Seven billion people, seven billion perspectives.  Mine involves more caffeine than most, that's all.

American jets launched missiles at a Somali town this morning.

A further 12 people, at least, were killed in Kenya today.

A few hours ago, President Hugo Chavez ordered eight battalions to hold the Columbian border and mobilized his air force.

Today might be more interesting than most people who woke up this morning might have expected.

This is interesting.  One may say that coffee has nothing to do with this.  Others would say they are right.

Still others would disagree on personal grounds but they don't read my writing.

Clearly, most would agree that three of the world's largest coffee producers witnessed massacres this morning and the only coincidence was the world's seventh most popular crop.  Perhaps this is true.

Or perhaps trading perspectives is more worthwhile – coffee is the key to understanding why we get along.  How?

1. Coffee smells fantastic.
2. The world economy's most crucial resource is the American Public's water supply - a third of which is used for coffee.
3. War is waged over coffee crops.  Peace is signed over coffee brewed.
4. Civilization has arisen from nothing more than ranching, familial heritage, and subsistence farming, of which coffee makes up 4%.
5. The sheer volume of coffee (there are ten billion coffee plants) makes it a vital stabilization of humanity.
6. Like all warm beverages, coffee is often the first sign of hospitality.
7. Caffeine stimulates serotonin and encourages grander perspectives.
8. Coffee smells fantastic.

Coffee helps us get along.

If only just.  Still, I take mine black.

Happy Monday,
Sean

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