 Hi coffee time I'm Tulip want to join my coffee time but today I have come to join you in an open space a little walk from my home so pardon me for wearing the sunglasses because I had to have the sun on my face so that I don't get blinded I put on the sunglasses but today on the way walk I did take my pee cushion in this times of COVID-19 I came wearing a mask as I walked and I bought a book today that I am reading lots of people are reading a lot because you have to stay home and whatever makes you happy it doesn't have to be a deep read it doesn't have to be light anything that you like reading is after all just for pleasure so today I put this on this is a kukui beads necklace made by people in Hawaii and it was brought to me by someone who visited Hawaii but with time and patience this necklace holds more than just memories of a land or how I got it so in my immersed hometown I move a lot by bus public transport which I enjoy whole a lot because I meet many many incredible people on the way so one day while I was waiting for my bus another fellow passenger had two of these on her neck and I was curious so I asked her like what are these and so she said she was faith and I introduced myself first of she said these are kukui beads from Hawaii and then she told me another incredible story about these beads she said that these are kind of fruits of a tree and the people of Hawaii bury them for a long time 6 months maybe under the ground and there through the small place where the bead or the fruit hangs the tree the ants eat up the kernels so after the long time they take it out and they are able to make one more hole at the other end and make this into this necklace and I thought wow how much patience how much creativity was needed and you know what she did faith my sudden found friend our bus came and she took out one necklace over her head and put it into my hand and said you keep it again first the beads made such a way and her incredible generous heart before I could hardly even thank her her bus left she inside but I had no contact information to thank her I wanted to give something back for this thing but I couldn't do that either so I held into patience but continuously I would look at it and think of faith and wonder how can I tell her how much I like it how much one incredible story is inside this every bead how the eye and I imagine ants eating them inside the ground in Hawaii the kernels that fed the ants and at the same time we had incredible necklaces and one day one winter I think it was the same winter of the summer that I met with I went by chance to the farmers market I am not a farmers market person much because I am not into the grocery person in my family but believe it I was like stunned to see the market it was as if my thoughts my appreciation and everything had worked their ways into the universe and I found faith and though I never carry any cash that day somehow I had some cash in my pocket I ran to faith and said faith I am so glad to see you and remembered on about how much I love one necklace and I said you know I can't keep it without giving something in return and since we didn't have much time I came straight to the point can I give you some money for it and she said okay and so I was able to give faith something in return but this necklace to this day holds much more than a necklace it's a story of patience story of beauty story of generosity story of how kind and loving people can be so and beauty carries with it time, patience and everything today I am going to honor Khalil Gibran my favorite author artist from his book The Prophet of few lines on which he speaks of beauty where shall you seek beauty of her except she be the weaver of your speech that aggrieved and the injured say beauty is gentle and kind like a young mother half shy of her own glory that she walks amongst us and the passionate say nay beauty is a thing of might and dread at the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and sky above us the tired and the weary say beauty is of soft whispers she speaks in our language but the restless say we have heard her shouting among the mountains and with her cries came the sound of hooves the beating of the wings and the roaring of lions so the last lines roaring of lions and the beating of the wings the softness, gentleness and the strength of a lion that is what beauty is and patience that's a special virtue and today is another day to hope for better days hope for a beautiful spring and hope to share coffee with you I intend to bring my coffee mug with me to show that I am drinking coffee but it's all the same keep that in memories and please enjoy your coffee and tea and stay safe thanks to our media and the incredible Faith Gregory for putting this all up together for me till we meet again till it thank you