Trish reynales biography

A green coffee wrap in Bogotá at 8, feet above sea level anoints a traveler on a homecoming.

I am the American daughter of a Colombian-born father.

When it comes to most anything coffee, I’m a devotee and believer. Coffee was a sacrament in my family.

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Early on in my childhood, coffee beans marked the passing of beloved pets, bestowing honor and blessings to backyard burial sites. Over the years, coffee beans found their way into flutes of Veuve Clicquot raised to birthdays and graduations and engagements, and stood in for lucky pennies tucked into bridal bouquets.

Coffee beans also served as rose petals conferring love and respect and safe passage to the departed at funerals.

So it was by design that, within hours of setting foot in Colombia, on my first stay in my belated father’s hometown of Bogotá, I found myself in a candle-lit room, anointed neck to toe in a