It’s every music lover’s nightmare. A band you’ve followed from their early years suddenly, inexplicably, becomes popular, and you know that based on past events the end is probably nigh.
It was the first really warm, sunny day of the year so far, and that put me in the mood for green or white tea.
As every tea lover is aware, drinking tea has a physiological effect on the body, which is usually described in terms of a mild, calming sensation.
You might however come across regular tea drinkers talking about a phenomenon that lies towards the far end of this spectrum – tea drunkenness.
This is the tin of Kusmi tea I recently found at the back of a drawer.
Further investigation has revealed that this was in fact a Mrs. Teaist purchase, based on a colleague’s recommendation.
Every now and then I like to pull out some of our lesser used teaware, and make tea in it.
I find it keeps you from getting in a rut, makes you concentrate more on technique. A change is as good as a rest, and all that.
“If you ask Zen people they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer.
So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.”
~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Things are starting to look up weather wise.
I can’t be sure, but it did at least feel as though we had finally broken through the double-digit temperature barrier, albeit briefly.
I bought this Pu-erh tea brick during my recent tea shopping expedition in Stockholm.
I found it at the Grace Tea House, along with the West Lake Longjing I posted about earlier.
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