Cuppa Grande Is the Confluence of Thoughts, Creativity and Wisdom
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”-Toni Morrison
Hello there from The Daily Cuppa Grande!
I need not restrain myself from relishing every cup of creative storytelling with ever-remembering flashes of mixing wisdom in experience and wisdom to experience.
In this place, you can smell a colourful bouquet of elevating, apprising, entertaining, guiding, and mesmerizing stories.
They inspire you to explore possibilities of human imagination in different colors and shades that may take you deeper in thoughts and broader in action.
It is a place where you, along with fantastic writers, explore the unique world of turkeys, imagine outhouses on Mars, celebrate the vibrant hues of bougainvillaea, and explore the fiery heart of volcanoes.
The Cuppa Grande offers various verbal recipes to suit all tastes. Taste something bitter with a rich garnish of humour, taste something sweet with natural beauty and taste something sour in the face of challenging lives.
For sure taste some thought-provoking narrative that can captivate your inner core. You are free to go deeper into the depths of gardening with a lady gardener or learn to easily steer life through challenges.
The Daily Cuppa Grande is the confluence of diverse facts and fiction with a glowing shade of creativity.
Let us meet some of the amazing writers behind the publication.
Here is Michael Rhodes from Ramona, California, a small town with a big heart which contains a large-hearted guy.
He is a retired sailor in the US Navy, fond of travelling and enjoying places and people’s company. His passion leads him to write on sustainability, travel and food.
In his writing, a touch of humour not only brings a smile to readers but also shakes deeper in their hearts to introspect.
I drank his recent cup of a story under the charge of intoxicating Ramona wine about his encounter with a family of turkeys, momma turkey with her four babies. He gave a memorable account of babies and how they followed their momma. He was utterly amazed to see the turkey family coming closer to him despite the presence of a dog-Miss Mali.
Read it here to know what happens:
James Beaufait: know him in his words, “lives his dream off-grid in Hawaii; passionate about creative expression: Wabi-sabi stories, living and dreaming consciously, and communing with Mother Nature.”
To know him in my words, while working with an innovative prosthetic feet manufacturing company, James got ample opportunities to visit scores of countries and interact with people of diverse cultures and thought processes that have completely transformed him within.
Through exploring and experiencing firsthand the cultural, mental, emotional, and physical limitations of losing one or both legs, he developed as a person. And the tremendous emotional will with which people from all walks of life battled to once again live and love their lives, walk, play, and feel entire, as well as set and accomplish amazing goals.
They taught him that everything is possible if one directs their mental and spiritual efforts toward a desired result and to be incredibly grateful for having two legs.
He started advocating for amputee athletes and those who were ostracized in Asian culture for being cursed due to their limb deformities.
James is an unwavering believer in the Aloha-the universal energy and its omnipresence enlightens us all.
He says about aloha, “We make every effort to maintain as close a connection as possible with the antiquated Hawaiian culture, which is only waiting to be re-embraced. We have encountered this aloha spirit with the heirs of this antiquated culture. When it touches you, it leaves you in a genuine, loving condition of being that never goes away. It’s reviving and feeding the innate love that we all possess.”
Find here James’s lifetime love affair with two oatmeal cookies, packed with a middle of extra creamy vanilla ice cream. You can read him here how skilfully he relates the history of “IT’S-IT.’
I take this opportunity to shout out an amazing, quite ripe, youthful lady bulging with enthusiasm and bubbling with passion whom we know as Katie Michaelson.
I don’t include her here as she owns this publication; instead, she truly deserves hearty applause for the qualities of her head, heart and soul.
She is a lady who brought up many adopted children as she birthed them.
What to say about her relationship with humans and pets; she keeps and rears her plants and trees as her kith and kin.
An experienced brain with a mature line of thoughts and actions and a humorous, passionate, youthful kind heart resides in its physical frame of Katie.
She is a certified herbalist and has been a hairstylist. What a combination! Surprise not, more of it within her.
Here is the story of when Katie’s heart flows with a flooding river in Iowa. In her poetic description, her empathy and kindness toward those suffering from flooded rivers are evident.
An unforgettable message she conveyed through the devastating river to those who selfishly play with nature.
Here is my fellow Indian friend Mukundarajan V N, a retired banker, a prolific writer on personal development and life lessons, and an ardent lover of quotes laced with wisdom and experience.
He has a unique way of expressing his thoughts. He is ethical, compassionate, kind and noble.
In this story, Raj discusses sarcasm using real-life examples to highlight its intelligence, while also cautioning that it should be used appropriately, as it can hurt instead of amuse.
Meet Marcus, my friend from Singapore who boldly shares his thoughts about life and its shades and colours.
He is a true Singaporean by head and heart.
A matchless professional photographer who freezes alive fleeting moments of life with his camera.
You can talk to his images they speak a lot about him.
Here is a story about tree pruning in Singapore that inspired him to write as he was coming back from his office.
After discussing the pros and cons of pruning, he skillfully used this context to convey a timeless life lesson: just like trees, we too need to shed the old to make way for the new.
This is the pragmatic way of life in which Marcus firmly believes.
Relish the cup of the story:
My Indian friend, Dr Seema Patel (PhD), is a microbiologist-bioinformatician and an Indian citizen who has lived in California, USA, for over a decade.
She enjoys writing about health, nature, parenting, art, and nostalgia. She also writes sometimes about tech and crime.
She aspires to be a full-time writer. She is intellectually and physically mature, a youthful lady, a proud momma of two young champions, and a flora and fauna lover.
Seema feels blessed in the company of a tranquil nature that arouses gratitude and adoration towards nature.
A summer breeze soothes her senses and, the wet soil makes her smell a seductive aroma after a rain shower.
She gets inspired to write about what is happening around her.
Here is a story to celebrate her son’s second birthday.
Seema vividly describes taking a birthday walk near her home with her kids. What a fascinating idea! Generally unbelievable.
Read here catchy account:
Not only these but there are many more jewels The Daily Cuppa Grande is proud to treasure them.
I will go over to them in my forthcoming write-ups. Till then happy reading and writing.
