This blog topic idea is from Kip Leland. "Thoughts before I had my coffee," was really a comment she made at the end of a string of suggestions for photographs, but I really liked it as a phrase. It got me thinking about everything I have to do in the morning before I have my coffee. First, I feel that I am in a cloud before I have any caffeine. So I am often surprised the first moment of true consciousness is hours after I physically wake up. There are 2 hour morning lectures that I am not sure I delivered.
My daughter Katie has ADHD and she takes Ritalin to help her focus and stay on task. The medicine is a stimulant and ADHD is likely hereditary. Ever since she was diagnosed five years ago my husband and I have argued who it came from. But tonight while we were discussing the benefits (and side effects) the medicine provides her, I realized that anybody is more focused on stimulants. I tried to find the exact statistics for how many Americans consume caffeine on a daily basis. I couldn't find consensus on the internet, but I am sure it is close to 80%. May be we are all so distracted by modern life that we have become a nation of people with ADHD.
So may be it came from me, or may be it is a side effect of my iPhone... who knows. All I know is that I don't have many, if any, thoughts before coffee, but at least caffeine is the cure.
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