Sharing insights and inspiration that happen over a cup of tea
Sharing insights and inspiration that happen over a cup of tea
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Nothing brings with it more opportunities for joy, and the unexpected, than spending time with your grandchild. On Easter morning, my five-year-old granddaughter brought me a toy that…
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For many of us, tea is the start of a moment of comfort, a chance to unwind, regroup, slow down, physically and mentally. Sometimes, when the occasion is right, a "little something," to go with that tea brightens the moment. For my mom it was soda crackers, round thick creations with almost no sugar, that…
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I love tea. I grew up with tea, for breakfast, a between meal treat, an after dinner relaxer, and, of course, whenever we had company. Tea is a fixer, especially when things get a little out of hand – like the day, many years ago when my cousin invited a girl from school to hang…
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Several years ago, while visiting my son at the Renaissance Faire in Tuxedo, N.Y., he asked me to help an injured dragonfly that was sitting on the counter in the pub where my son was working. I cupped the dragonfly in my hands and held it there for an hour or more while I decided…
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As the weather grows warmer and we are able to spend more time on our backyard deck, it never fails to call to mind an image I have of my dad and one of my sons, a white-haired, blue-eyed handful of a child, perhaps four-years old at the time. I looked out the glass of…
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With Ash Wednesday approaching, the words of Pope Francis’ 2016 Ash Wednesday message are worth reflection: With great wealth and power, there often comes a “blindness … accompanied by the proud illusion of our own omnipotence, which reflects in a sinister way the diabolical ‘you will be like God’ (Gen. 3:5), which is the root…
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Can't believe I just discovered these 11 tips by George Orwell yesterday for the first time! It seems they were posted in the Evening Standard, Jan. 12, 1946. If you look up 'tea' in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you…
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After yet another of DT’s ignorant, racist comments, in which he questions why the U.S. has to accept people from “shithole” countries like Haiti and the continent of Africa, I saw a response from a supporter that encapsulates the dangerous racism, nationalism and arrogance that mars this country: “Like always he is telling the truth,…
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So…today is National Cookie Day! Who knew? I didn’t until I saw it on Twitter. Not sure where all these national days come from, so I thought I'd look it up. This interesting tidbit of information came from Muppet Wiki (didn't know about that either!): National Cookie Day is a minor holiday, celebrating cookies in all…
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We had barely digested our Thanksgiving meal and I found myself out amongst the craziness looking for bargains. The parking lots were packed with everyone going every which way and the stores were over-crowded. We were filling our cart with things that we thought were great Christmas present deals and items we just couldn’t do…
God Talk and Tea 