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Not From Starbucks?

While vacationing in Costa Rica and on the way to Poas, the volcano, Liz pointed out the coffee farms (fincas) to her daughter, eight year old Holly, and told her that’s where coffee comes from.  Looking perplexed, Holly asked, “It doesn’t come from Starbucks?” . . . .  David, Sf.G.

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A New Perspective

Kenny, a corn and soybean farmer from Iowa, had always been proud of how hard he worked to get the best possible yield from his 640 acres, especially this year after the combine’s MP3 player and the A/C both broke on the last day of the soybean harvest.   And then, while on a hard won vacation visiting India and driving through the foothills of the Himalayas, he began to get a new perspective on hard work . . . .  David, Sf.G.

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