Starting the day with coffee, chocolate cookies, and quotes.

It's a quiet, semi-sunny, not quite too humid day in the Ozarks. I've fed the cats, prepared organic fair trade coffee in my authentic stainless steel French press, and taken Raven's amazing, organic
whole-grain, chocolate cookies out of the refrigerator to warm to room temperature for an easy, yet delicious breakfast.

My favorite coffee mugs are on the table. They are huge, white, made-in-Japan teacups bearing one simple sentence, in bold black letters that traverse the entire outer edge, right beneath the brim. "ONLY  DULL  PEOPLE  ARE  BRILLIANT  AT  BREAKFAST" -- Oscar Wilde --