We Can Laugh Indoors.

The Verve is a coffee shop right down the street from my house. I go there often to study and sip on some delicious coffee or espresso that can take anyone right back to that little cafe in Rome which serves the best cappuccino. And, while you imagine yourself in Rome enjoying the art of an espresso; the person next to you is from Canada, the person to the left is Korean, to the right of you is a Brazilian, and lastly the person who serves you your espresso loves their job, meets people daily, and enjoys that moment of an awesome connection with another human being.

As I was sitting in the verve attempting to study, I began to think about my next big adventure. How I long to be immersed in another culture, time, place, or emotions. I think about myself, the friends I have, and the gift we are to one another and I realize that often the gift that we are, tends to become lost. I get lost. We get lost. To be in a new land there are no limits or constraints from letting us be who we want to be or shedding ourselves allowing us to be a gift to another. It presents an opportunity to laugh with a stranger, see beauty that lies within another persons soul, smile differently, share thoughts, ideas, and to tap a foot to the groove of some native musician. I can best describe it with my art: Every time I unwrap the plastic that covers the blank canvas and I smell the freshness of an unused medium; it becomes my own adventure. Then, color hits it and I create a feeling. I choose colors that express passion, warmth, zeal, suffering, grief, or triumph. The canvas reveals a glimmer of my soul. Nothing can tamper with that work. No one can say its not art. The work has value. depth. understanding. grace. It becomes a mysterious adventure.

Or if your bored, you can dye your hair like I recently did. No more red in my hair just straight blonde. It's just FABulous. Every time I sit down in the Verve it becomes an adventure.
A whole new Mary that can be who ever she wants.
Sit there. sip my coffee and be my adventure.


The verve- you've become my new land.