Katie at Loosely Speaking tagged me with this meme.
Questions and answers:
How full is your glass? My glass is empty at the moment. Or is it?
This glass cup is one of a set I bought to use for Irish Coffee. They were a bit larger than the glass cups I was looking for, but I thought they would do. This cup can be used for either hot or cold drinks.
Since I bought it, this cup/glass has held hot drinks; Irish Coffee, rich hot chocolate topped with whipped cream, mulled cider to be stirred with a cinnamon stick. These drinks have been savored while in the quiet company of family and friends. They have warmed us as we sat, cozy before the fire, listening to the winter wind run sly, exploratory fingers about the exterior walls of our old house searching for the tiniest vulneribility in walls or chimney.
They have been filed with cold, fruity smoothies, root beer floats, and versions of old fashioned phosphates complete with long handled spoons and straws to be sipped by little girls as they played board games, watched movies, or just sat outside, chatting and laughing in light, lilting, voices as the summer twilight deepened.about them.
I have served plain coffee or tea in these cups when I wanted the moment to feel a little special.
One of the things I like about this empty cup is that just looking at it conjures up happy memories of the times it was full.
And, if I am lured by some pretty magazine picture to try a new drink recipe, my cup will accommodate whatever it happens to be. It is versatile and adaptable, always open to something new. It may look empty to the casual observer, but my glass/cup is full to the brim with bottomless possibility.
Granny J at Walking Prescott has just done her version of this meme, and a clever one it is too!
She has reminded those of us who do this meme to refer back to Starbucker who originated it. Sorry Starbuck! I should have had the good manners to do that in the first place!
I am going to pass it on to a chosen five a little later when summer simmers down a bit.
