Thursday, September 14, 2017

Tea - The Experience

Looking back through past pictures
I find so many pictures of tea;
but it isn't just the tea that I find fascinating
but the experience of tea.

More and more I realize that tea time is part of an experience.
It is an experience I love for it's quiet times and 
gentle times shared with friends and family.

Tea can be savored with our morning toast or 
a time of quiet at the end of the day.
One teashop in town reads your Tarot cards as you sip tea.
Others use it as meditation either alone or with a small group.
There are traditions and ceremonies wrapped in with sipping tea. 
As a blogger who often writes about tea, 
it really is the sharing of the experience of tea.
From a child's tea party,
 To WuWo Tea Ceremony,
 My early morning tea time alone,
 The elegance of afternoon tea while traveling,
 Breakfast tea time shared with my "live-in gardener",
 Sitting in the garden,
 Or tasting tea in a tea shop.
 I savor each and every experience with a good cup of tea.

How do you experience tea?

"Though I cannot flee
From the world of corruption,
I can prepare tea
With water from a mountain stream
And put my heart to rest."
~Ueda Akinara 

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