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Today's mugshot is a pen & ink drawing from my then 14 year old son Ryan. I have been lost in cyber space connecting with marketplace leaders, artists, and everyday ordinary folks passionate about life & coffee. Artists, musican's, authors, leaders, all changing the view of the world in a 140 characters. So thankful of this medium to connect. In the days and weeks to come by blog will have posts from books I'm reading from publisher Thomas Nelson. First up, my mentor, Andy Stanley and his book Principle of the Path! More then ever I'm commited to encourging leaders and artists as they impact and add value to others in their everyday ordinary life. Visit often, follow me on twitter. givelovecoffee/twitter.com This ain't no ordinary love...

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Good Morning~ Moon Monkey Junkies~ Alfred inspired me today~Be inspired by his story below...and givelovecoffee.org go out MAD=make a difference right where you are today! be reative if you have to be wait passionately...www.evotional.com
he is The world's only analog blogger? He "blogs" daily in Liberia, Africa without power or a computer. 10,000 readers a day! http://is.gd/oByz Alfred Sirleaf is a blogger. Not just any blogger - no sir, Alfred is an analog blogger. He runs the "Daily News," a news hut in the middle of Monrovia, the capital of a Liberia, a country on the west coast of Africa. The lack of electricity doesn’t even faze him:
Alfred serves as a reminder to the rest of us, that simple is often better, just because it works. The lack of electricity never throws him off. The lack of funding means he’s creative in ways that he recruits people from around the city and country to report news to him. He uses his cell phone as the major point of connection between him and the 10,000 (he says) that read his blackboard daily.
Not all Liberians who read his news are literate, so he makes use of symbols. Whether it’s a UN or military helmet, a poster of a soccer player or a bottle of colored water to denote gas prices, he is determined to get the message out in any way that he can.
Link A 2005 article on NYT on Alfred Sirleaf - via Onelargeprawn

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Good Morning Moon Monkey Junkies..today's mug shot is one of my favorite authors & online mentors! Pastor, teacher, leader of North Point Church, in Georgia, Andy Stanley. Amazing leadership guidance! I have enjoyed finding those passionate about coffee on twitter. made many many new friends and contacts that do live over extraordinary coffee. find me on twitter...givelovecoffee. Life is for celebrating! givelovecoffee.org

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Good Morning Moon Monkey Junkies! This is like me with no coffee in my life...I surrender all! Can't remeber where I found this pic on the web but it deserves to be today's mug shot. Life is for celebrating. enjoy the weekend & those in your physical space. Headed to the coffee lab to clean up after our roasting circus yesterday in the offical Moon Monkey "demin" lab coat. Feeling creative this morning...right after my next cup of extraordinary coffee.

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good morning moon monkey junkies~

It's the monkey's mug, and his mug...

It's wanna get fresh friday, the day or night...based on my opportunities of the day where I head into coffee lab with the now offical "demin lab coat" to roast up a storm of extra ordinary coffee. Looking forward to roasting a extraordinary batch for the Idea Den in Nashville Tenn. they host artists spinned on http://www.shine.fm/ folks like Jon Foreman, a moon monkey junkie! Can't wait til the Idea Den pour fiction family a cup of moon monkey in Nashville...won't they be excited me to! Happy "wanna get fresh friday...time to head out to the coffee lab to roast

signiture smokey chimp expresso, Costa Rican Tarrazu, Guatemala Antigua, Fair Trade Sumantra, and my personal favorite....Fair Trade Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. Life is for celebrating...give love coffee.org

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Originally uploaded by Robby Holmes Photography

Toby Mac on his portable sounds tour! Check out Robby Holmes stream on Flickr it's amazing...course I'm a sucker for black & white. Up this morning @ O' dark :30 must of been the corned beef....I will have to drink extra, extraordinary Moon Monkey Coffee Today. Created a new spro in the coffee lab over the weekend....Love it, Love it , Love it! If you'd like a few sample shoot me an e-mail givelovecoffee@yahoo.com
p.s. Tobymac is a huge moon monkey junkie fan...can't wait to see him in his hometown of Nashville next month to hand-deliver fresh beans

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Morning Moon Monkey Junkies~ Headed to the coffee lab this morning to roast up a several batches of extraordinary coffee for a cafe. And also to hand select some green beans for a friend who would like to learn how to roast coffee in a pop corn popper! beware, this is how the passion starts! Can I get a witness! enjoy the day with the one's in your physical space and be a blessing. Love this quote from Mary anne Radmacher

" Live with Intention Walk to the edge listen hard play with abandon. laugh.

choose with no regret.continue to learn. appreciate your friends.

do what you love. live as if this is all there is.