Writing again...

Yawn......5am finds me up, and getting the beans on for tonight's dinner.  Last night there were over 350 hungry mouths to feed, so I have a whole lot of beans to make for tonight!...Lord knows, I hate it when we run out...Sitting in front of my little desk, which shares space in my smallish dining room, I feel like the captian of my "ship"...(smile), from here I can hear the sounds of the beans begging to simmer, and my nine cup bialetti working on my morning espresso....

I have tried coffee many ways and I always go back to my bialetti...and yeah, nine cups!  I drink at least four cups of espresso each morning. Now mind you, these are not "cups" of espresso...but I guess it would be more like four "shots" of espresso...enough to get my motor running!!  The other four or so, I will save for when I get home from work, if Gianni hasn't gotten to them first!...

I love the hissing sound....ahhhhh, my bialetti has a bit of a gasket leak...I could get a new gasket, and one day I will...but there is something nice about the soft hiss, almost like a tea kettle, and once the hissing stops, unlike a tea kettle I know my espresso is ready....

Hmmmm...earlier I read a friends blog...Friend?
I guess truth would be more like old lover, and yet that is not really true either...companion, would be better...maybe even soulmate.  Not in the romantic, entwined forever sort of definition, but there is a connection there.  We have known each other for maybe going on 6-7 years?  7.  And yet from the beginning we clicked.

Ever have someone in your life that challenged you to be more than you knew you could be?  Showed you the world and all of it's possibilities?  Yeah, he did this for me.  His gift was his ability to coerce me out of my routine, and to introduce me to myself.  I know that sounds weird...to be "introduced to yourself"...hmmmm...how's this?...He had the ability to release my fears, to encourage me to be more than I was...to try anything and everything I only thought about, but never followed through with.  I guess that is the best way to explain it. He emboldened me to be all that I could, or wanted to be.

His lessons encouraged me to write, to start that first blog.  I also learned to dabble in photography, and to sail. I am not saying I wouldn't have found all of these outlets for my creativity at some point.  But with his tutelage I took a crash course, which has influenced my life since. I learned that there were no limitations.

So, here I sit, writing again...and ruminating over my day ahead...a day FULL- jam packed with work, and tonight's dinner...and all the things in between.  A day full of possibilities.  Ahhhh...my bialetti has stopped hissing...a sure sign my espresso is ready...

Mmmmm....espresso in hand, I am off to get ready for work, and my enfolding day....I will finish up my thoughts tonight.  You didn't think I would leave you hanging?   I bid you Adieu, for a little while...