Kavi

Deeply interested in things that don't matter. Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so the other half may reach you. Travel. Writer. Also @_Kavi

[Kavi @KavisMusings]

Simple people. Profound inspiration. https://t.co/h2fRp5ru7j

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She picked up litter on a Wayanad trail without breaking stride or sentence.
I didn't notice for ten minutes. I was looking at birds.

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A friend boxes hers up four times a year. Forty minutes of effort.
@EcoKaari turns soft plastic into things you'd actually want to own.

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'If you know enough is enough, you will always have enough'

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Avvaiyar said it centuries ago: what you have learned is a handful of sand. What you have not yet learned is the size of the world.
I had known this line for years. The full short education in coffee: https://t.co/sO0PJZoMcm

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I grew up believing coffee came in precisely one legitimate form.
Steel tumbler. Poured from height with mild theatrical flourish. The fragrance of morning and the authority of habit.
My mother makes it. There is, and remains, no higher benchmark.

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Then I discovered Arabica versus Robusta (spoken of as rival football teams), tasting notes with hints of regret, and beans that have passed through a cat.
I had them in Bali. They were extraordinary. I have sourced them wherever possible since.
Make of that what you will.

[How Things Are Manufactured @fastworkers6]

The marathon in China features a "pendulum" crossing method designed to allow residents to cross the street safely without interrupting the race flow.

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Coffee drinkers are better thinkers. I have no evidence for this. I do have a second cup.

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“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
opens IndiGo app to check delay

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“Beware the Ides of March.”
Caesar heard it. Ignored it.
53 years ago today, The Godfather opened in New York. A film entirely about what happens when you don’t see it coming.
Some days just have a theme. 🧵

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“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
Every manager who has ever called a “quick sync” believes this about themselves.

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Here’s the post https://t.co/2SXwnxyUp9

From Barcelona to Japan, the pain is the same!

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A Reader sent this after reading my blogpost. A coffee shop in Kyoto.
Cash only. No smoking. Beans for sale.

And then, when the subtlety wasn’t landing: “Get me straight. Leave me alone. We don’t need you.”

Someone cancelled a festival to say this. Kyoto has better handwriting

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@tsriram I did WHAT? Right, okay. Have you been a good boy on here? Behaved yourself? Only then am I taking credit. :D :D

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Been quiet here for a while. The account waited. I wandered. Apparently I'm back.

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I wrote "I sat on that beach with a phone full of unread messages, a conversation I had handled badly three weeks earlier,and a meeting I was already dreading on Tuesday. I had carried all of it from Mumbai, through Madurai, down to the edge of the land. Good luggage management"