Subtle, yet naive. Fruity, with a chocolate finish? Oaky?
Hmmmm. I gave up drinking. I gave up reading reviews.
Far more sane. :)
Hmmmm. I gave up drinking. I gave up reading reviews.
Far more sane. :)
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^^^ I’ve been home roasting my coffee for years. Here’s the site I use to purchase my green coffee beans. Check out the descriptions used for the various coffees. By the way, if you love coffee, home roasting is the only way to go. www.sweetmarias.com Frank |
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@goldenear1948 - if I had willpower I would. It's what I do in between being productive, i think. Not that there is anything wrong with that, and the fora are helpful, good places to connect, etc. but I can tell when I've had too much. Not implying anything re anybody's else's posting frequency or habits. I pretty much ignore "news" except for the truly bizarre stuff. Maybe early onset dementia is making me like a millennial. I have an 8 second attention span. |
I think part of it is simply information overload. Not enough time to think. Email comes in, gotta respond. There is much wonderful about having all the info and data at your fingertips, but it can create quite a few problems. One is that even well regarded sources publish without sufficient time to proof or edit (I'm going to stay away from the political aspects of so-called journalism other than to note that one approach-- news by aggregating a string of tweets- is pretty annoying to me). The other is simply writing style and quality. I think every field has its terms of art, constraints given the nature of the field, e.g., medical writing is obviously different than legal writing, not just due to subject matter but long standing conventions in form and format. Writing about the arts, or wine, food or music requires the author to convey information about one sensory medium (taste, sound, visual aspects) into another. Not easy to do without relying on hackneyed phrases and buzz words that ultimately become meaningless. The other is that good writing is itself an art form. If you are a heavy reader (or write for a living), you know the difference between just banging it out and the sort of writing that sings. The latter takes skill and, at least for me, a bit of inspiration as well as sufficient time to get distance from the draft and rework it. We don't have as much time for that. Fewer people today read books. Part of it is simply lifestyle, but I've been relying on Kindle for years- I know it isn't "the same" as holding a book in hand, but I can enlarge the font size, and carry many books in a slim cased electronic device. Publishing itself is a dying business. Long form essays are probably less attractive to many readers than a short video. In teaching (law), I often find myself helping students get away from stilted phraseology and syntax-- I encourage them to write like they are talking to somebody in plain English; persuasion comes, not from the purple prose, but from the skill of assembling a thoughtful, reasonable argument and laying it out in an easy to follow style that doesn't rely on buzz words. To the extent I write for pleasure, I do so because I really enjoy it. But, it requires (work by) the author to relieve the reader of the work. |
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