Today,
Henry started our morning meeting by reading from the book Emperor’s Handbook
written by Marcus Aurelius. The message
was about “reserving its judgments and adapting to change.” Our morning
discussion was about sharing. We questioned what sharing
meant to all of us. We talked about sharing between family members and
strangers, as well as sharing material things and non-material things such as
time. After the morning meeting we went to pick coffee in the Don Marcelino
Mamani’s coffee plantation. Some of us tasted some “miel” (sweet coffee juice
that surrounds coffee berries). It was quite tasty. We picked a couple of pounds of dark red
coffee berries, and watched how coffee is processed. Lucio was very knowledgeable
about coffee. He explained how coffee is grown and processed. Latter, we enjoyed
a cup of cappuccino at Lucio’s café while listening to Juan Valencia, a current
president of the coffee cooperative – Cencoop, talk about the economic aspects
of coffee. Today, we learned a lot about coffee, heard stories of coffee
growers, and experienced how much of hard hand labor takes to prepare an
aromatic cup of coffee that most of us savor every morning.
Thank you for sharing this...there is so much we take for granted that many have labored for.
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