Editor's Note | The Espresso Pour☕ Hmm, that looks familiar
An espresso shot from the Editor's desk 🎙️
Welcome to another quick pour from The Dainty Brew. I originally began this publication August 13, 2025 and never got around to posting this. Shame on me. What made me harken back to it is because well...the subject matter in itself has done a full lap pass me with another season whereas I've yet to hit play on my own first season, lol.
Ya knoooooow...I just think it's funny that; what has grown to become my weekend ritual has been ripped off to turn into what Tracee Ellis Ross calls Solo whatever's. I was watching her Roku show that consisted of about 3 episodes where she does solo trips and has reflections during these trips as she documents the experience. By Episode 2, I started feeling some deja vu and by the last episode I'm like...wait a dmnnnnn minute. THIS is exactly what iiiiiiii do EVERY Saturday.
While I'm flattered someone's been following me to admire my rituals and sell off my concept-I mean this isn't the FIRST time a celeb has copy catter heaux'd me. I've been twin'd by the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker to Janet Jackson and even Beyonce-YES, her and now I can add Diana's Daughter to the mix **le sigh** Am I mad? NOPE!! I loved her series and look forward to another season. I'm glad to have been an inspiration and hope more of us can find solo time of interest to get lost in finding oneself. I know I'm having a good time. I don't understand how people don't like themselves enough to hang with...well...themselves, lol.
Anyhoo...as I'm sitting here watching the 2nd season of her Solo Travel series-again, I'm not mad. I don't hate on the success of anyone esp not the ones who doing what I could've did had I not paused my own efforts to at least start and keep going. At the end of the day, you can't knock the hustle because there's nothing you can't have. I always chuckle when Rickey tosses out amazing ideas and even gives a disclaimer of "I don't wanna say it because I don't want nobody to steal it" and I chime in with...it don't matter no ways cuz you not gonna do nothing with it yourself.
With that being said, the concept of your hopes and dreams that started off as an idea for YOU start to look familiar the longer you sit on them and do NOTHING with it. You will look up and watch someone execute what you didn't want to do. This "thief" will follow through with what you dropped the ball on and abandoned. You can't be mad at nobody but yourself.
Now does this mean iiiiii can't proceed to do my own Sip Trips every weekend? Nope. In fact, I still make it my business during anything outside my local area for getaways to find a local coffee shop. I still have some I've yet to highlight and share. So here I am...sitting on unreleased footage and content, lol. See why I'm not mad. It's ME!!
I'm not even the one to not do it because I feel like the market is saturated with too many of one thing because what's for me is for me. There's nobody with a signature like your own. Too often we want to hop into an area where we allow fear to mask itself with the excuse of...well there's 100 sunglass shops on one block so I can't open mine. We also allow fear to tell us we're not making excuses but...but...but...it's just that **proceeds to give another excuse** There is no lack of opportunity. You just gotta be delusion enough to find it.
So yes, I'm gonna still create my own solo getaways. I don't have the means to globe trot but I got enough gas to make a drive to a coffee shop an hour or so away. Whether you're going to Morocco or the nearest Turkish Coffee Shop you too can unlock the experience of self-reflection through solo-ness and blossom into just being. Bringing your ideas and dreams to fruition is what YOU make it. If not, you too will be sitting on the couch like me at home turning on the TV to watch someone else living out your concept on the big screen thinking hmm...that looks familiar.
Until the next pour...
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