I love, PEOPLE
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PEOPLE. The person is the most common conduit of LOVE. The person gives LOVE, receives LOVE, and participates in the flow of LOVE. What better than to discuss PEOPLE?
On its face, this may seem like a travel blog. Mind you, I love travel blogs! Travel bloggers have lead me to some of the best experiences, food, drinks, and PEOPLE in my years on this earth. So yes, we will travel here. But with LOVE, first, and through PEOPLE, second.
Wherever you go, it is tempting to feel out of place, like you do not belong; or to feel disconnected, like you're a third party on-looker who can critique. But rarely are we able to travel and see, truly see, the PEOPLE that create the flow of LOVE that carried us to the location in the first place. So here, you will find LOVE in the form of PEOPLE as we watch those humans in closest physical proximity to us create LOVE so that we may enjoy a meal, a coffee, or a place more.
Don't you see it?
What is LOVE?
Whatever they are, do them during the holidays and see where LOVE shows up in you. Is it in the song you hum with the world around you? Is it in the gentle stretch you embrace when you wake up?
Bad Bunnies
It is so jarring to be noticed, as a person, rather than as a customer.
Island Provisions
And this coffee shop, on this trip, on these days, with these PEOPLE, I was able to learn that LOVE is a hard process. Often we are asking more questions than we have answers. But I also learned that LOVE reveals itself when PEOPLE begin to ask those very questions.
Hyde Perk
I feel at home, a feeling I did not expect when I romanticized being a regular at a local coffee shop. I know others feel the same. And all it took was a few simple, atypical changes to a typical coffee shop to create a community of PEOPLE who belong and share LOVE.
Jives Coffee Lounge
What is marvelous is that this LOVE these two sought to create for the PEOPLE who came to their shop caused their guests to LOVE the same. Families laughed openly with each other, young people gave up seats for those who needed it, and PEOPLE asked to know the story of the strangers sitting around them.
Switchback Coffee
When you pay with card, the screen offers you a "recommended" payment price. But then it offers you choices less than that, all the way down to zero dollars. Woah! Optional pricing. Who is that for? PEOPLE.
TK’s Boba & Creamery
LOVE does not have to be big to make a travel experience great … This may be a time where the majority of your experiences are anti-social. But that does not mean the majority will win out in our hearts.
Sunrise Coffee
Almost as if the baristas were wishing each to have a lovely day while answering their simple question.