Early morning quiet

I have a love affair with coffee. I probably shouldn’t because I like it with sugar and half and half but I don’t care. I like my coffee much stronger and richer than my husband so about a year ago I bought myself a nice french press. I had a couple of smaller ones but they barely made a decent cup. So instead I bought myself a bigger and better put together press. I love this little baby. It makes about 32 ounces of coffee and I’m always so happy with the results. I like to buy whole bean coffee from a local roaster and then grind enough for a couple of pots. It has become such a morning ritual for me, just me and the quiet of an early morning. Little things like waiting for my coffee to brew or the 20 minutes or so that I take to read quietly every morning center me and get me ready for the day. There will always be ripples in my pond but how I choose to deal with them is what I think defines me as a person. I choose to face my day after I’ve spent quiet time with myself. I stay off of social media or anything else until later in the day and I don’t look for trouble before my day has even started. I let go of worry for a little bit and don’t give a second thought to whether people like me, believe in me or even think of me. It’s my time in the morning. And then writing helps me sort out the end of my day even if I don’t publish what I write. It just helps to put my thoughts down each day. It may seem like even though I share so much of my life, the hurts I feel, issues from my past and all of the rest, I still keep a lot inside. Mostly because I’m not sure that what I’m feeling is easily explained all the time. It doesn’t really matter in the long run because I share what I need to and try to let the rest go. Just like I drink my coffee in the morning and read to center myself for the day and at the end of it I write what I can’t explain and let it go. There is an article I found last summer and when I’m struggling to deal with things, I go to this article and read a different quote in the morning and try to live my day that way. There are some very good ones but two of my favorites are:

“Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye.” – Beyonce Knowles

I mean who can go wrong following advice from Queen Bey right? And the second is:

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” ― Shannon L. Alder

Both are so powerful. If you’d like to go look at some of the others and find a quote of your own that speaks to you here is the link to the article:

90 Letting Go Quotes for finally moving on

And below is a picture of my French Press, it is a Veken and it cost me about $60 and worth every penny.♥