I spend time in the local coffee shops, read, and write. I did a lot of my blogging in that venue; however this summer I rearranged my schedule and blog at home. I notice a gentle energy in these settings and in a busy world it is a place to take time and just be.
The coffee shop;
Misnamed I think–
I sip tea
I try just be present.
We gather;
It is about talk–
A communal space,
Congregate and converse.
Companionship’s richness;
Found in quality
I cannot assign a number
It is a fool’s errand.
It is in laughter,
The reminiscing,
The sharing,
We find ourselves.
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About ivonprefontaine
I completed a PhD at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. Previously, I taught for 20 years and taught for 15 years in a wonderful hybrid school. My dissertation topic and research were how certain teachers experience becoming who teachers. In teaching and leanring, I am a boundary-crosser who understands moving ahead is a leap of faith.
Teaching is a calling and vocation to express who I am as a person. Currently, I am waiting and listening to what calls me next. I am an educator, phenomenologist, scholar, boundary-crosser, published poet, author, parent, grandparent, and spouse.
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About the “misname” – I also always say “Let’s go have coffee”, but I actually drink tea 🙂
I am the same. I have not drank coffee for close to 30 years. It is still a coffee shop most of the time.
I’m much more of a loner than you, plus I get distracted with so much going on around me. I’m jealous!
I blog at home now and the free hand writing is done anywhere. I tend to be a scribbler and just write randomly.
I like to think I’m at home wherever I find myself, but the truth is that I find only at home in the stillness of my flat, that I can write, think & be truly creative.
My blogging is helped with that quiet. I find I can write free-hand in the coffee shop and soak things in differently.
Awesome! When are we meeting again, at the Coffee Shop? 🙂 Missed and thought a considerable amount about both you and Ruth again this week, 🙂 especially at this particular time of the year ~ but neither of you missed much …. the kids sure will ….
I am away until October, but we can meet then and catch up with each other.
“It is in the laughter/The reminiscing/The sharing/We find ourselves” – this just feels as beautiful to me as it is true.
Thank you Mimi.
The idea of meeting friends at a coffee shop sounds so exciting. Every time I plan to go to a coffee shop and have a hot cup of coffee, I land up ordering an iced tea or a cold coffee!!! Weird, I know. But, that’s how it is, always.
On a serious note: I enjoyed reading this poem – i could visualize things happening.
We have just come to use the term coffee shop. It is like the Ancient Greek agora. I wonder what gets accomplished in this setting.