my morning coffee
☆ August 30, 2010
This is how I make my coffee these days.
Over an open fire, outside at dawn.
I sip to the sunrise.
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August 30th, 2010 @ 6:08 am
Yeah, me too..life is so simple..if you allow it to be and my coffee tastes alot better over the fire.. thanks for the post.. I check you everyday and can tell you”ve got something brewing.. but selfishly miss your pics and comments of life.. You remind me that we are all one after all.. sharing the same stars, the same coffee over the fire.. all across the land.. don’t hate the computer.. you ARE sending us all a handwritten note and a pressed flower(I can do without the grasshopper leg. give it to the robin).. so thanks..
August 30th, 2010 @ 6:36 am
I like this post. I’m sitting here at my desk in a tall office tower in a concrete jungle drinking a mug of coffee that was spit out from a machine after I pressed a simple button. My coffee was faster than yours and yet yours seems so much simpler. Good luck with whatever projects are on the go. I miss you when you aren’t posting on this blog frequently!
August 30th, 2010 @ 6:38 am
I love the large sturdy mug with its color of the sun. Was it fired in a kiln?
August 30th, 2010 @ 6:58 am
I love this post. I wish I oculd brew my morning coffee just like you do. I plan to live a simpler life later after retirement.
As I sit in my little office cube with my coffee travelling mug holding coffee I brought from home, I wish I was any place but here.
Thank you very much for sharing the simple things you do each day. Reading your posts and seeing your pictures is almost like a little getaway for me even for a few minutes. I sit at my desk and daydream of what I would like to do the days when I don’t have to come to work anymore and can move somewhere to live my own simple life.
Jenn
Ontario, Canada
August 30th, 2010 @ 7:02 am
Thank you so much for this post on a Monday morning. I love my job, but overslept today and was in a rush. It reminded me to slow down and be in the moment. I will be with you and your fire brewed coffee in my heart today. Thank you for sharing your wonderful life with all of us.
Hugs <3 from Illinois
August 30th, 2010 @ 7:14 am
Wow, seems like heaven to me!!!!!!
August 30th, 2010 @ 7:15 am
Ah yes. I am envious. I was rushing so much this morning that I didn’t even take the time to make coffee. The slow brewing over the fire and alowing the day to sink in is just beautiful.
August 30th, 2010 @ 7:53 am
I do this when I canoe camp and love it too. Nothing smells better.
August 30th, 2010 @ 8:48 am
Unfortunately it was 70 degrees and humid here at 5am. I would have been drained of blood by our state bird (mosquito) by the time my coffee was done. I’ll have to stick with the indoor version until frost.
August 30th, 2010 @ 9:12 am
Ahhhhh… what a life…I bet the ritual of making the fire and sitting outside makes that coffee so much better…I think you are working on something lately..I am hoping another book…I do miss your post about your life there,My morning ritual is..laying in bed with my fresh coffee..and watching the sun rise ..with my 2 dogs and my laptop..Marlene from Cambria
August 30th, 2010 @ 9:13 am
How fabulous! And Nancy, I’m with you, I love that mug!
August 30th, 2010 @ 9:30 am
Hey, S., doesn’t look like you soaped your coffee pot… Ya just gotta do that ol’ Girl Scout trick!
August 30th, 2010 @ 9:41 am
Such simplistic beauty in all you share with us…thank you Shreve.
August 30th, 2010 @ 9:56 am
Sounds like Heaven….I love relaxing on Sunday morning outside with my coffe and newspaper. Morning is my favorite time of day.
August 30th, 2010 @ 10:00 am
Shreve, you live the life of a poet, and you inspire me.
August 30th, 2010 @ 10:25 am
Dear Shreve,
I am in the middle of The Daily Coyote as I write (literally….at work)and I so appreciate these slow mondays to actually enjoy some reading and web surfing..This is the first time I have checked your sites since buying the book..I just read past the page where you mention leaving the honey jar by the wood stove so you dont have to chip away at it when frozen…I think this weekend (when i have time to enjoy a real cup from the stovetop percolator and sit by the window with my girlfriends cat) I will try honey in “my morning coffee”
I would get up extra early to enjoy that pot of coffee with you!
-Jay,New York City
August 30th, 2010 @ 11:38 am
I would get up extra early to be that woman that a man like Jay would get up extra early to enjoy that pot of coffee with. To be admired like that and loved and appreciated would make my heart sing.
Carla
August 30th, 2010 @ 11:54 am
What kind/brand of a coffee maker is that? Looks lovely and I have been looking for an alternative to my perk pot that I use while camping…..
August 30th, 2010 @ 1:06 pm
Heaven :) <3
August 30th, 2010 @ 4:09 pm
Such an awesome way to have coffee in the morning… I wish my school would let us have small bonfires so a group of us could do that every morning. I’m also super glad to see that my mug got to you without breaking in the mail… super happy!
The rocks in the background look like Uluru – awesome stuff.
August 30th, 2010 @ 4:27 pm
Shreve, nothing tastes better than a meal/beverage cooked over a campfire.
August 30th, 2010 @ 4:27 pm
Danielle ~ LOVE that mug! It’s my favorite!!
August 30th, 2010 @ 4:49 pm
First off…. hahahahaha!!! Brandi, I loved your mosquito comment. We must live in the same state:>) and Shreve what kind of coffee beans or flavors do you use? I can smell it from here:>)waaaaaaaaaa!
August 30th, 2010 @ 7:32 pm
Niiice
August 30th, 2010 @ 8:17 pm
I recently made a comment to a friend that my dream life would be living on a ranch, somewhere in Wyoming, mucking stalls all day. My only request is that I can bring my horse, my three cats and not share a bunk house.. With that response, a friend send me a link to The Daily Coyote. That is where I learned about Honey Rock Dawn and Shreve. I spent several hours going over past updates.. and realized that she is living my life.. I envy anyone who can leave it all behind for a simpler way of life. Having lived on a farm, I know that simpler is not always easy or quick. But the rewards are certainly well worth it! I look forward to daily updates and pictures. Makes me slow down and take pause.. enjoy the life I have.
August 30th, 2010 @ 9:11 pm
Looks good Shreve. The very best part of the day is sunrise. It doesn’t matter if I’m at the cabin on Lake Travis… or back at work on the boat offshore on dockside. First cup, first sip watching world around me come alive…
August 30th, 2010 @ 9:53 pm
O, Man! I LOVE coffee and that mug is calling to me!
August 30th, 2010 @ 10:01 pm
Not a coffee person. But I’ll bet I cold brew tea the same way.
And better your surge protector is fried than your computer if fried. That is what surge protectors do; they give up their lives so that other appliances may live.
Hope you went right out and bought another one.
August 31st, 2010 @ 11:12 am
one of my favorite things-fresh coffee outside watching the sun come up! we tent camp up in the Black Hills in NE Wyoming in the spring. my boyfriend makes our coffee using small camp stove and individual swiss gold coffee filters, one cup at a time. we bring fresh ground beans and enjoy this luxury in the mountains, listening to the birds wake up and sometimes if we are lucky, coyotes greeting each other in the distance. i am also fortunate to know someone here that does pottery and use one of her hand made cups at work..life is good
peace and love from sw wyoming
August 31st, 2010 @ 4:21 pm
My husband & I often thought we’d live a life like yours Shreve but alas life doesn’t always turn out the way you think and 2 organ transplants later (he’s doing GREAT!) doesn’t allow one to live so remotely. In the meantime I’ll enjoy reading your blog and viewing your marvelous pictures, it’s such a joy. By the way, I’ve now become hooked on antique dip pens. I went to my local stationer’s shop and he convinced me to “move on” from glass pens to antique dip pens. As he so eloquently put it “There’s something about holding the vessel of someone else’s thoughts.” Beautiful…. like you!
August 31st, 2010 @ 5:43 pm
You are retro-crazy. Your cowboy is a lucky man.
September 3rd, 2010 @ 5:15 am
What a very cool gran.
September 4th, 2010 @ 11:47 am
Simply Beautiful!
September 4th, 2010 @ 10:37 pm
I adore your very soul.
xo,
A
September 5th, 2010 @ 5:13 pm
Priceless !! …and grammy looks cool too..
September 5th, 2010 @ 5:58 pm
love the fire, not the hour.
September 7th, 2010 @ 8:58 am
Shreve:
You inherit your beauty from your grammy,I can see how alike in stature and poise you both are. … keep doing what you are doing in life,you do it well.
September 8th, 2010 @ 9:27 am
This is the only way to make GOOD coffee!! A percolator (even on the stove) truly makes the best, but of course, the open fire is even better! Soooo jealous! Enjoy!
September 9th, 2010 @ 6:55 am
Shreve, you always inspire me to remember the simple things in life and not to rush them; but to enjoy them when they come around. I love the early morning watching the sun rise through the pines and a pot of fire brewed coffee with you would be a marvelous way to start a new day. Thank you for the beautiful soul you are.
September 9th, 2010 @ 5:17 pm
So many people that I share so many of the same feelings with appear on the site… Inspiring, yes, but hard to find in everyday life. Life alone with the animals sounds good, but the comments I read here have slightly rekindled my hope that there r others like me out there.
Thanx Shreve, for being an inspiration in ur own life, but also for being a portal through which many share one happiness.