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I have said that St. Francis deliberately did not see the wood for the trees. It is even more true that he deliberately did not see the mob for the men.” G.K. Chesterton. For Saint Frank, coffee isn’t mundane or commodity, it isn’t ‘just coffee.’ It has a quality to bring joy to life through its aromas and flavors but also with its ability to bring people together.

Weddings & Celebrations
Fine Art Documentary albums for family celebrations, engagements, weddings, births, and reunion portrait sessions

For beauty lives with kindness.

Love doth to her eyes repair, to help him of his blindness; and, being helped, inhabits there.

William Shakespeare ‘The Two Gentlemen Of Verona’ (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

We chase the grape ‘round the spinning globe,
Through ancient cellars and modern abode,
One sip, one journey, one joyful swirl—
The wine trail calls us, forever unfurled.

Ish planted the first wild vine with these hands,
When the world was young and the soil still sang,

The wine trail is memory, the wine trail is me.
In every swirl, in every crimson gleam,
You taste the first garden, you taste the first dream.