True Origin Organics brings us the first exclusively single-origin organic Colombian coffee that is harvested, roasted, and packaged by Colombian coffee experts to the U.S. Their coffee hails from two distinct regions. One from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, which is located on Colombia’s Caribbean coast,  an area known for coffee, according to True Origin, that :has  an intense and sweet aroma with citric and caramel notes. It has a balanced flavor with distinct hints of chocolate and walnuts. Full bodied, with moderate acidity and a clean, smooth aftertaste. It uses a moderately dark, crisp roast.” While the other hails from Tierradentro which is an inland region of Columbia.

They describe their second coffee as having a powerful, sweet aroma with fruits and floral notes. It’s well balanced and has hints of caramel. It’s creamy in body with medium-high acidity and has a long-lasting aftertaste. It uses a medium jungle roast.

You can get either of their coffees in whole beans or ground. I would suggest whole beans so you can grind them as you need to so as to preserve their freshness. Only a small amount of ground beans will be needed as these are two wonderfully flavorful choices.  Find out more online at trueoriginorganics.com!

When was the last time you laughed your head off?
How about a chuckle?
A giggle?
Ha, ha?

When I worked on creating the brand, Xena: Warrior Princess, my editor-creative partner and I had a schedule: 30 minutes of laughing a day. Minimum. (Actually, we kept that schedule whether we were working on Xena or not—singing songs from Beauty and the Beast helped a lot). Not only was Xena a great, great source of happiness for us, but working together, letting our minds play—many days, we laughed for far more minutes than thirty.

Talk about self-medicating. In a good way. They say laughter remains good medicine, and I agree. Those years of laughter schedules were ones of great satisfaction—and healing for me.

Isn’t it fabulous how something as simple as laughter can help with your health?

Now, I use the telephone and instant messaging for laughter breaks. My editor-creative partner is also a computer pioneer, so he finds me online and we connect virtually. When I need to laugh, I also call my friend Natasha. There’s bound to be giggles then, sometimes for no reason at all.

It’s the release that heals.

Janet Muniz

Photo Credit: craigallyn