Brewed coffee contains cafestol, a diterpene that can raise cholesterol levels in the blood . However, reducing its levels is simple. Just use a paper filter. Brewing coffee with a paper filter effectively lowers the amounts of cafestol but lets the caffeine and beneficial antioxidants pass through.
Instead of trying to debate what separates us, why not talk about what brings us together? The questions we ask drive the conversations we have.
Sometimes life asks us to suck it up, keep on slogging through the muck, and as hard as it is, to take one more step. We live in such times. Keep slogging. Take another step and then another. Don’t quit.
Joe: “I went to my doctor today and told him I keep hearing the song, ‘The Green, Green Grass of Home” in my head.
Pete: “What did your doctor say?”
Joe: “He said, I had the Tom Jones syndrome, it’s not unusual.
“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.”
~ Enid Bagnold
“Seize the day, whatever’s in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.”
~ Lloyd Alexander
Defeat?
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
WHO is it speaks of defeat? —
I tell you a Cause like ours
Is greater than defeat can know;
It is the power of powers!
As surely as the earth rolls round,
As surely as the glorious sun
Follows the great world moon-wave,
Must our Cause be won!
What is defeat to us? —
Learn what a skirmish tells,
While the great Army marches on
To storm earth’s Hells!
Molly: “I told Joe to start treating like he did when we first started dating.”
Sophie: “What did he do?”
Molly: “He took me to a movie and dropped me off at a my parents’ house.”
Life is lived in the present moment. Plant two feel firmly on the ground. Keep your eyes focused on the destination. Dare to live. Dare to chase dreams. Dare to dance the dance of life
“The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.”
~ Ted Hughes
