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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cA man\u2019s true wealth is the good he does in this world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u2014 Muhammad (570 \u2013 632 CE)<\/em><\/p>\n We entered a small coffee shop with a friend and ordered. As we were walking towards a table to sit down, two other people entered and ordered: \u201c5 coffees please; 2 to go, and 3 suspended\u201d. They only took 2 coffees and left. I asked my friend: \u201cWhat is this suspended coffee about?\u201d He smiled and replied: \u201cJust wait and you\u2019ll realize\u201d.<\/p>\n More people entered. Two girls ordered one coffee each and left.<\/p>\n The next order was 7 coffees from 3 lawyers–3 coffees to go and 4 suspended coffees.<\/p>\n As I was thinking about this \u201csuspended coffee\u201d and enjoying the beautiful sunshine, a man with ragged clothes lethargically entered the coffee shop. With kindness, he asked the cashier: \u201cDo you have any suspended coffees today?\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s simple! You pay the price of two or more, but only pick up one. The rest will be \u2018suspended\u2019 at the store as an act of charity.<\/p>\n This tradition started from the city of Naples in Italy, and slowly spread throughout the world. \u00a0This summer in Edmonton, an anonymous customer paid for 500 suspended coffees at Tim Hortons.<\/p>\n \u201cHow lovely to think that no one need wait a moment; we can start now, start slowly changing the world!\u201d<\/em>Anne Frank (diary entry, 1944)<\/em><\/p>\n By Ghazaleh Alamaki<\/p>\n Residence Advisor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cA man\u2019s true wealth is the good he does in this world.\u201d \u2014 Muhammad (570 \u2013 632 CE) We entered a small coffee shop with a friend and ordered. As we were walking towards a table to sit down, two other people entered and ordered: \u201c5 coffees please; 2 to go, and 3 suspended\u201d. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}