The gleam of a diner pried into the dark street, promising warmth, food, coffee, against the inhospitable desert gloom behind us.
The thought of this, and a whiff of sugary warmth from the coffee ring, cheered him.
"Everything that is happening doesn't affect us here in the DMZ," Sgt. Caleb Baker, 21, from Greenback, Tenn., said in the fluorescent warmth of a coffee lounge, 100 yards from the start of North Korea's sector of the demilitarized zone.
If the metaphor is Affection is Warmth, holding warm coffee will activate the brain region for experiencing affection.
I step out of the warmth of the coffee shop and into the chill of a Tasmanian Sunday morning feeling grateful for writers such as James.
I created my healing as I found beauty in my morning cup of coffee, warmth in the nuzzles from my two cats, and meaning in the light of those brisk autumn days.
You'd go into a room with 40 other people, just for the warmth and free BBC coffee.
It was soaked in a particularly urban melancholy: the 3am blues of In McDonald's was instantly recognisable to anyone who's ever been stuck in a fast food outlet in the early hours with only a styrofoam cup of coffee for warmth.
For Gothamites of a certain vintage, it was as much a part of life as BUtterfield, ALgonquin and Horn & Hardart — a jaunty little waltz, its lyrics connoting warmth, fiscal security and celestial reward: Heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee.
Although the coffee had cooled, a slight warmth remained.
