Appreciating Coffee

Today I've been thinking about my recent love of Coffee. I used to feel at odds with coffee, feeling like a true herbalist wouldn't appreciate coffee or resort to it over a warming brew of herbal tea. These past few days, as I've examined how I'd finally given in to this slightly guilty pleasure, I realized that I've been thinking of coffee with a preconceived lens.

Yes, sure when I think of coffee in the modern day way, it's one of our many drugs of escapism and "cope-ism". Sure, it doesn't lend itself to calming the spirit and enlivening the soul.

From A Nite at Starbucks

But truly, when I drink coffee, especially when I'm able to sit down and enjoy a cup as I'm doing now, with a peaceful frame of mind and a short list of things I want to get done, it feels so good and so welcomed.

I have an ADD brain and so maybe that's why coffee feels so good to me. Maybe that's why I finally decided to let go of denying myself it once I realized, that with all the fixings, I loved it. Maybe creating calm and focus is exactly what it does for me and is exactly why I need it.

:).

I'm just glad that this green witch finally remembered that coffee beans come from mother nature too:).

Enjoy your coffee!

Guilt-free now.