Coffee Prices Explode & Global Coffee Gratitude
At the end of the Thanksgiving holiday, I am reminded of how grateful I am for coffee. Not only for its rich, soothing, energizing effects---but also because of its health benefits, including a reduced risk of diabetes, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and depression. I am also grateful that increasingly the medical evidence is documenting these benefits with amazing contributions from European and American universities! I am also grateful that most of the coffee-drinkers I know can still afford to drink coffee and enjoy its benefits. That is not insignificant, especially when you consider that coffee prices are at an all-time high for the past 13 years. In fact, coffee futures have increased 44%. According to pundits, a constellation of factors are contributing to coffee's sky-high prices, including bad weather in South America and low stockpiles in the United States. But, there's something else: Increasing demand from coffee drinkers in emerging economies. The largest increase i
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The Health and Fitness magazine I get is called; Experience Life. They have a website and a yuoutube channel.
Check it out Nicky. It may be just the type of mag that would fit your writing.
Finally an e-mail from Munich and it is raining in the desert (seriously).
:-| <----- my serious face.
Desert Rain
Rain softly drapes
the trees
flowers
streets
and
the city sleeps...
Then morning embraces the desert
in shivery hugs, misty kisses and dewy smiles
and a passionate shower of raindrops
the city awakes.
-Sangeetha Pandaram
:-} <------ my happy face.
{ <------ a mustache.
Is that little Krakatoa?
Naturally, here at the Institute we are expecting a call from the British government any minute now. So, the sub-committee for Names, Stacking and Apportioning has sprung into action to determine the moniker for the new monarch.
After, several pots of Whole Foods Pacific Rim Organic,several selections pushed themselves to the top of the list,
King;
George
Bling
Simon
Kong
Nigel
Krakatoa
were all among the nominees. However, and I think you'll agree, the winning name has the style, the substance, the probity, necessary for a future ruler. The Galactic, Trans-global Institute is proud to annoounce that, in our collective opinion, the name of the royal progeny and the future King should be;
Binky
Hi Pi,
Indeed that is Krakatoa/Gilya/Jane/Elisa...
I love desert rain. Happy summer to you. :)
Nice poetry, Pi.